Woman with lilies in the hothouse
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| Woman with lilies in the hothouse |
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| Lovis Corinth , 1911 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 89 × 63 cm |
The painting Woman with Lilies in the Greenhouse was painted in 1911 by Lovis Corinth with oil on canvas and is 89 × 63 cm in size. The catalog of works lists it under the number 466. The picture was taken in Berlin and shows the painter's wife between flowers, clearly recognizable below the white lilies that give the title. It is assigned to German impressionism .
The painting was first exhibited in the Berlin Secession in 1913 (as No. 183), and posthumously in 1926 in the Nationalgalerie , this time under the title Girls among Flowers (No. 199). In the same year it was on the occasion of the anniversary exhibition “100 Years of Kassel Academy” (No. 37), and in 1927 in the memorial exhibition for Corinth, which was organized from January to March by the Saxon Art Association in Dresden. This time the title was Blossom Rush .
history
Lovis Corinth's painting Woman with Lilies in a Greenhouse originally belonged to the Steinbarth Collection in Berlin-Großlichterfelde (since 1912). Then the Jewish merchant and art collector Otto Ollendorf from Breslau bought the painting. As a result of the National Socialists' seizure of power and the subsequent reprisals for the Jewish population, Ollendorf committed suicide on May 8, 1939. His widow Meta Ollendorf, nee Conizer, and their two children managed to escape to North America.
In 1939, however, the Corinth painting was removed from the luggage of the emigrating family by the Gestapo . The Breslauer Kunsthandlung Wenzel, who had experience in such tasks, mediated the now "Aryanised" painting over the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts Wroclaw at the Municipal Art Collections Görlitz . Ms. Ollendorf Breslau appeared as the seller of the picture with the title Frau am Fenster , the price was stated at 1000 Reichsmarks.
In September 1990, the heirs submitted an application to the Görlitz city administration for the image to be retransferred in accordance with the Property Act of October 3, 1990. The case was handed over to the Saxon State Office to regulate outstanding property issues in Dresden. Targeted research in Görlitz was not started until 1995. In 1998 the result was a specific administrative procedure with a decision stating that the Ollendorf heirs had a legitimate claim to the return of ownership of the expropriated painting. The painting was restituted in 1998.
literature
- Charlotte Berend-Corinth : The paintings of Lovis Corinth. Work catalog. Bruckmann, Munich 1958, p. 114.
- Michael Anton: Legal Manual for the Protection of Cultural Property and Art Restitution Law. Volume 1: Illegal cultural goods traffic. P. 716f. ( Digitized in the Google book search)
- Annerose Klammt, Marius Winzeler: “Modern art must be brought to bear” - For the acquisition of works of art from Jewish property for the art collections in Görlitz. In: Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property Magdeburg (Ed.): Contributions from public institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany to dealing with cultural property from formerly Jewish property. Publications of the Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property No. 1. Edited by Ulf Häder. Magdeburg 2001. ISBN 3-00-008868-7 , pp. 119-143.
proof
- ↑ Berend-Corinth (1958), p. 114
- ^ Lothar Brauner: Painting of the German Impressionists. Exhibition catalog, National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery, Berlin 1976. p. 38
- ↑ Gunnar Schnabel, Monika Tatzkow: Nazi Looted Art. Manual. Art restitution worldwide . Proprietas-Verlag, Berlin 2007. ISBN 3-00-019368-5 . P. 369 ff.