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Auction: 19th Century Paintings

15. December 2020, 5:00 pm

Object overview
Object

0257

„"Zwey Tiroler auf einer Berghöhe ausruhend"“
1829
oil on panel
42 x 34 cm
signed and dated on the bottom right edge: Waldmüller / 1829
numbered on label on the reverse: 257

Provenance

since 1848 (at the latest) imperial property in the k. k. Gemälde-Gallerie Belvedere, Vienna;
since 1891 in Kunsthistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna;
1921 became property by the Österreichische Galerie, according to ministerial-instruction;
1924 given in exchange to Kunstverlag Wolfrum;
collection Windisch-Graetz (according to Feuchtmüller);
collection Ludwig Wodicka (1886-1957), Vienna;
late 1938 confiscated by NSDAP in Vienna;
1939 reserved for the Führermuseum, Linz (project "Führermuseum", Linz-no. 257)
1945 sent to the Munich Central Collecting Point by the Allied Forces (reg. 15.10.1945, Mü.-no. 9726);
10.6.1949, painting was given to the BRD;
1.6.1951, sent to the Austrian Consulate General in Munich; stored in the Salzburg Residenz Palace;
18.2.1952, restitution of the painting by the Federal Monuments Authority Austria, Vienna to Ludwig Wodicka;
collection Dr. Karl Ruhmann (1897-1972), Vienna;
1987 art trade Martin Suppan, Vienna;
acquired in Viennese art trade approx. 10 years ago;
since then private property, Austria

Exhibition

1830 Vienna, academic exhibition, no. 199;
1865 Vienna, Österreichischer Kunstverein, no. 11 („Der Morgentrunk im Gebirge“);
1898 Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Jubiläums-Kunst-Ausstellung, no. 87

Literature

Die moderne Schule der k. k. Gemälde-Gallerie im Belvedere zu Vienna, 1848, p. 21;
Arthur Roessler/Gustav Pisko, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. Sein Leben, sein Werk and seine Schriften, Vienna n.d. (1908), no. 40 (SW-ill.) "Zwei Tiroler Jäger (Passeier)";
Friedrich Boetticher, Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts, vol. II/2nd part, Dresden 1901, p. 969, no. 87 "Zwei Tiroler-Jäger (Passeyer)";
Bruno Grimschitz, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Salzburg 1957, p. 298 no. 244 (b/w-ill.);
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. 1793-1865, Ramerding 1976, p. 66 (ill.);
Rupert Feuchtmüller, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. 1793-1865. Leben, Schriften, Werke, Vienna/Munich 1996, p. 444, WV-no. 267 (b/w-ill.)

Estimate: € 250.000 - 450.000
Auction is closed.