Search Request | Object report
Burning post office
Lost Art-ID
306024
Artist / Creator
Schreyer, Adolf
Birth
1828.07.09, Frankfurt (Main)
Death
1899.07.29, Cronberg (Taunus)
Title
Burning post office
Dating
1865 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
135.00 cm
Width
195.00 cm
Description
fire has broken out in the Wallachian post yard, the excited horses are trying to break through the wooden fence, inscribed lower left Ad. Schreyer; to the measure height: 117 or 135 cm
Provenance
Collection Sir Julian Goldsmid, London; Hans Weidenbusch, Wiesbaden; 07.03.1898 Auction Weidenbusch Collection in Frankfurt am Main at J. P. Schneider jr. and E. A. Fleischmann, lot 42 (sold for 16,300 Marks); Mr. La Roche-Ringwald, Basel; from 1899 Adolf Bensinger, Mannheim; 22.02.1940 auction of Bensinger's estate by Kunst- und Versteigerungshaus Dr. Fritz Nagel, lot 52 (sold for 15,500 RM); whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Kunst- und Versteigerungshaus Dr. Fritz Nagel, Mannheim: Nachlass-Versteigerung der Gemäldesammlung sowie Einrichtung Kommerzienrat Adolf Israel Bensinger, 22.02.1940; Monika Tatzkow: "Praktisch zertrümmert". Die Kunstsammlung Adolf Bensinger, Mannheim, in: Christiane Fritsche, Johannes Paulmann (Hg.), „Arisierung “ und „Wiedergutmachung“ in deutschen Städten, Köln / Weimar / Wien 2014, S. 261-284
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Contact
Dr. Monika Tatzkow
Position
Wissenschaftlicher Dokumentationsdienst
Phone
+49 (0) 30 64 128 13
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