Lot Essay
This drawing is preparatory for Plate VI of Klinger's Ein Leben (Opus VIII). See lot 946 for another drawing relating to the print series.
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Anerbieten (The Offer)
Details
MAX KLINGER (1857-1920)
Anerbieten (The Offer)
signed and dated M. K. 83. (lower right)
pencil on paper
20.4 x 31.3 cm. (8 x 12 3⁄8 in.)
Anerbieten (The Offer)
signed and dated M. K. 83. (lower right)
pencil on paper
20.4 x 31.3 cm. (8 x 12 3⁄8 in.)
Provenance
Gustav Kirstein (d. 1935), Leipzig; then by descent to his wife Clara Stein Kirstein (d. 1939).
Confiscated by the Gestapo in 1939; then allocated to the Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (Lugt 1669).
Restituted and returned to the heirs of Gustav and Clara Stein Kirstein in 2000; Sotheby's, London, 29 March 2001, part of lot 55.
Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg (Master Drawings - Recent Acquisitions, 2005, no. 39, ill.).
Acquired from the above; then by descent to the present owners.
Confiscated by the Gestapo in 1939; then allocated to the Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (Lugt 1669).
Restituted and returned to the heirs of Gustav and Clara Stein Kirstein in 2000; Sotheby's, London, 29 March 2001, part of lot 55.
Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg (Master Drawings - Recent Acquisitions, 2005, no. 39, ill.).
Acquired from the above; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
R. Hartleb, Max Klinger, Berlin, 1985, no. 5 (ill.).
H. Guratzsch (ed.), Max Klinger - Bestandskatalog der Bildwerke, Gemälde und Zeichnungen im Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, 1995, p. 199, no. C384 (ill.).
H. Guratzsch (ed.), Max Klinger - Bestandskatalog der Bildwerke, Gemälde und Zeichnungen im Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, 1995, p. 199, no. C384 (ill.).
Exhibited
Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Max Klinger: Zeichnungen, Zustandsdrucke, Zyklen, October 1996 - January 1997, exh. cat., no. 96 D, p. 114 (ill.).
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