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BIRTH OF THE MODERN: THE ARNOLD AND JOAN SALTZMAN COLLECTION
CHRISTIAN ROHLFS (1849-1938)
Paar
Details
CHRISTIAN ROHLFS (1849-1938)
Paar
signed with initials and dated 'CR 1929' (lower right); signed again and inscribed 'Chr Rohlfs Hagen' (on the stretcher)
tempera and oil on canvas
28 1⁄8 x 20 ¼ in. (71.5 x 51.3 cm.)
Painted in 1929
Paar
signed with initials and dated 'CR 1929' (lower right); signed again and inscribed 'Chr Rohlfs Hagen' (on the stretcher)
tempera and oil on canvas
28 1⁄8 x 20 ¼ in. (71.5 x 51.3 cm.)
Painted in 1929
Provenance
Christian-Rohlfs Museum, Hagen (by January 1932).
Confiscated from the above as 'degenerate art' by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin (31 May 1937; EK no. 7434).
Transported and stored at Schloß Schönhausen.
Bernhard Böhmer, Güstrow (on commission from the above, by 1939; acquired in 1943).
Deposited in Güstrow by Rolf Hetsch and transition into Estate of B. Böhmer (3 May 1945).
Wilma Zelck, Rostock, Berlin and Hamburg (May 1945); sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 27 November 1952, lot 2026.
K. Ströher, Darmstadt (acquired at the above sale, until at least March 1960).
Acquired by the late owners, before May 1989.
Confiscated from the above as 'degenerate art' by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin (31 May 1937; EK no. 7434).
Transported and stored at Schloß Schönhausen.
Bernhard Böhmer, Güstrow (on commission from the above, by 1939; acquired in 1943).
Deposited in Güstrow by Rolf Hetsch and transition into Estate of B. Böhmer (3 May 1945).
Wilma Zelck, Rostock, Berlin and Hamburg (May 1945); sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 27 November 1952, lot 2026.
K. Ströher, Darmstadt (acquired at the above sale, until at least March 1960).
Acquired by the late owners, before May 1989.
Literature
L. Zanh and K. Fischer, "Die Sammlung Karl Stroher in Darmshadt" in Das Kunstwerk, November-December 1957, vol. XI, no. 5⁄6 (illustrated).
P. Vogt, Christian Rohlfs: Oeuvre-Katalog der Gemälde, Recklinghausen, 1978, no. 736 (illustrated).
P. Vogt, Christian Rohlfs: Oeuvre-Katalog der Gemälde, Recklinghausen, 1978, no. 736 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, Nyere tysk kunst: Maleri og skulptur, January 1932, no. 157 (titled Hjemkomst).
Darmstadt Kunsthalle, Christian Rohlfs: Das Spätwerk, January-March 1960, no. 30.
Bari, Castello Svevo, Da Kandinsky à Dix, Dipinti dell'Espressionismo Tedesco, May-June 1989, p. 128, no. 49 (illustrated in color, p. 129).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, German Expressionist Paintings, November 2001-March 2002.
Darmstadt Kunsthalle, Christian Rohlfs: Das Spätwerk, January-March 1960, no. 30.
Bari, Castello Svevo, Da Kandinsky à Dix, Dipinti dell'Espressionismo Tedesco, May-June 1989, p. 128, no. 49 (illustrated in color, p. 129).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, German Expressionist Paintings, November 2001-March 2002.
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