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Woman with red hair

Lost Art-ID

522709

Artist / Creator

Dix, Otto

Birth

1891.12.02, Untermhaus (Gera)

Death

1969.07.25, Singen

Place of activity

Düsseldorf; Dresden; Berlin; Hemmenhofen (Bodensee); Randegg (Hegau)

Title

Woman with red hair

Period of time

1900-1942

Dating

1930/1931 (?)

Object type

Painting

Group of reported objects

Painting

Material / Technique

Oil ; Panel / painted ; mixed technique

Description

purple dress; narrow vertical format, thin female figure, red hair, very light transparent eyes, pale, bony face, expression of deepest sorrow (description after S. Dittmayer); inscribed; dimensions approx. 60.6 x 36.5 cm (presumably 71 x 41 cm with frame)

Provenance

Acquired in 1942 from the Kühl Gallery, Dresden; Hans Dittmayer, Dresden-Blasewitz; in 1944 removed to crates no. 1 and 2 (location as of 18 January 1946: Prague IX, Brandyska 56, DePe-Werke); reported to the local national administration in 1946, whereabouts unknown thereafter; Galerie Ketterer, Munich (65th auction, lot no. 378: Red-haired Woman, Portrait of a Lady); 1982 Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich

Storage site

Prag IX, Brandyska 56, DePe-Werke

Literature / Source

Lit.: Werkverzeichnis 1931/9

Published since

23.02.2015

Contact

Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.