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Smile

Lost Art-ID

599838

Artist / Creator

Hoetger, Bernhard

Birth

1874.05.04, Hörde (Dortmund)

Death

1949.07.18, Interlaken

Place of activity

Title

Smile

Dating

1906

Object type

Sculpture

Group of reported objects

Sculpture

Material / Technique

Marble

Measures

60 cm

Inventory number

P 0061-ex

Description

signed on the reverse of the head: B. Hoetger.

Larger than life-sized female head with lying hair and tresses on the back, inclined to the right. On the outer surface of the round chest section stylized flowers and foliage. Base of two round bulbs decorated with foliage. Head: white marble; base: yellow marble

Provenance

Donation by August Freiherr von der Heydt, Elberfeld, 1911 | lost at the Ehrenbreitstein evacuation point, after/around 1945

[...]-1911: August Freiherr von der Heydt (1851-1929), Elberfeld | 1911-after/about 1945: Städtisches Museum, Wuppertal-Elberfeld | 1945: larceny, evacuation point Ehrenbreitstein | after/about 1945-present: whereabouts unknown

Storage site

Ehrenbreitstein

Published since

20.05.2022