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Forest lake, behind whose densely overgrown shores a church

Lost Art-ID

5000005103

Artist / Creator

Blechen, Karl

Birth

1798.07.29, Cottbus

Death

1840.07.23, Berlin

Place of activity

Berlin

Title

Forest lake, behind whose densely overgrown shores a church

Object type

Drawing

Group of reported objects

Graphic

Material / Technique

Paper ; Ink [?] ; Sepia [?] / painted

Height

35.00 cm

Width

50.00 cm

Inventory number

KS12

Description

Two-towered Gothic church, the steeple provided with Baroque roof. On the reverse a pencil sketch of a skeleton.

Provenance

Private property, Berlin; Amsler and Ruthardt Berlin [ed.] Auction 28.10-31.10.1913, catalogue no 96, Berlin, page 6, no. 37th art dealer Victor Rheins, Berlin, bought here November 1913; 1913 Städtische Bildersammlung; 1945 lost during circumstances of the war.

Storage site

Klein Döbbern, Gutsschloss

Literature / Source

wohl Paul Ortwin Rave, Karl Blechen. Leben. Würdigung. Werk., Berlin 1940, WVZ 2005.

Beate Schneider, Carl Blechen. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik. Bestandskatalog der Cottbuser Sammlung, Leipzig 1993, S. 143.

Published since

2006