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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 15, 2020 | Christie's | New York | European Art Part I | 11 | $****** - ****** | Der Hexenmeister |
paintings
47.9 x 27 cm (18.88 x 10.63 in)
oil on canvas
Adalbert Ritter von Lanna (1836-1909), Prague, probably acquired in 1887.
Leo Bendel (1868-1940), Berlin.
with Galerie Heinemann, Munich, acquired directly from the above, 15 June 1937.
Karoline 'Lina' Friedrika Oetker (1867-1945), Bielefeld, acquired directly from the above, 12 August 1937.
Rudolf-August Oetker (1916-2007), Bielefeld, her grandson, by descent.
Kunstsammlung Rudolf-August Oetker GmbH, Bielefeld, acquired directly from the above, 1998.
Restituted to the surviving heirs of Leo Bendel, November 2019.
Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Dreiundzwanzigste Sonderausstellung in der Königl. Nationalgalerie zu Berlin, Werke von Carl von Piloty, Carl Spitzweg und Friedrich Voltz, November-December 1886, p. 7, no. 3, as Zauberer und Drache.
Prague, Rudolfinum, Spitzweg-Ausstellung, 1887, no. 72.
H. Holland, Die Kunst dem Volke 26, Karl Spitzweg, Munich, 1916, p. 28, no. 51, illustrated.
M. von Boehn, Künstler-monographien, Carl Spitzweg, Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1920, p. 37, illustrated, as Drachenbeschwörer.
F. Ostini, Aus Carl Spitzweg's Welt, 100 seiner schönsten Bilder mit Porträt und Biographie des Malers, Barmen, 1924, p. 51, illustrated, as Die Beschwörung.
W. Spitzweg, Der unbekannte Spitzweg, ein Bild aus der Welt des Biedermeier, Munich, 1958, illustrated across from p. 97.
G. Roennefahrt, Carl Spitzweg, beschreibendes Verzeichnis seiner Gemälde, Ölstudien und Aquarelle, Munich, 1960, p. 292, no. 1395, illustrated.
E. Kalkschmidt, Carl Spitzweg und Seine Welt, Munich, 1966, p. 141, no. 103, illustrated.
J. C. Jensen, Carl Spitzweg, Cologne, 1971, p. 81, pl. XVI, illustrated.
S. Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg, Munich, 1990, p. 213, no. 102, illustrated.
S. Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg, Die Skizze und das fertige Bild, Dokumentationsreihe zu den Werkverzeichnissen, Starnberg-Munich, 1995, p. 22f, Bayer, Staatsbibl. Munich, inv. no. Ana 656.83.
S. Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg, Verzeichnis der Werke, Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart, 2002, pp. 546-547, no. 1520, illustrated, as Der Hexenmeister (Zauberer und Drache).
C. Hickley, 'Dr. Oetker returns painting to heirs of Jewish tobacco dealer murdered by the Nazis,' The Art Newspaper, London, 22 November 2019, illustrated.
