In the fisherman's house
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| In the fisherman's house |
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| Lovis Corinth , 1886 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 90 × 116 cm |
| Privately owned |
The picture Im Fischerhaus is a painting from the early work of the German painter Lovis Corinth . It shows a scene in a fisherman's house and was painted in 1886. It was last sold in a major auction at Christie's auction house in 2005 and is now privately owned.
Image description
According to the catalog raisonné by Charlotte Berend-Corinth , it is a picture painted “in warm, reddish-brown tones”. The picture shows a total of four people in one room: a fisherman, two women and a girl. In the foreground are a woman and the girl who are talking, the second woman and the man are slightly offset behind them. All persons are mostly dressed in blue, with the women and the girl each wearing a blue dress and the fisherman wearing a blue top. The fisherman's trousers are made of light-colored fabric, with his hands in his trouser pockets, he also wears a fisherman's hat and black boots and smokes a cigarette.
A wooden vessel stands on a green stool between the woman and the girl in the foreground; the girl is also holding a wooden pole. The background is formed by the walls and a chest standing in a niche, there is also “a window at the top left, a door with a carving in the background.” A bucket and a blue item of clothing also hang on the back wall.
The picture is signed with the words on the lower right edge of the picture
- Corinth
- 1886. .
Emergence
The picture was taken during the artist's stay in the Bay of Kiel in Ellenberg near Kiel (part of the city of Kappeln ). In the same house he painted a study with two women in blue clothes and a child (also in the fisherman's house , oil on cardboard).
Exhibitions and provenance
The picture was sold by the Hugo Helbing gallery in Berlin to an anonymous collector in December 1930 ; it later turned up at the Wiltschek gallery in Berlin. As a result, the picture was confiscated during the Nazi era between 1938 and 1945 and ended up in Austria. According to the 2nd edition of the catalog raisonné, the picture was in the possession of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance in Vienna in 1992 .
In October 1996 there was a return (restitution) of numerous works of art that in the era of National Socialism were seized, at the Mauerbach Fund of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Austria . The paintings sold that year for over $ 14.6 million to be distributed to Holocaust survivors . The auction of Im Fischerhaus took place in 2005 together with other works in Christie's auction house by the State of Austria together with the Federal Association of Jewish Religious Communities in Austria, the profit should also benefit the survivors of the Holocaust.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c d Charlotte Berend-Corinth : Lovis Corinth. Catalog raisonné. Revised by Béatrice Hernad. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1958, 1992; BC 42, p. 60. ISBN 3-7654-2566-4 .
- ^ Charlotte Berend-Corinth : Lovis Corinth. Catalog raisonné. Revised by Béatrice Hernad. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1958, 1992; BC 41, p. 60. ISBN 3-7654-2566-4 .
- ↑ Description of the lot in the fisherman's house at Christie's for auction 2005.
literature
- Charlotte Berend-Corinth : Lovis Corinth. Catalog raisonné. Revised by Béatrice Hernad. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1958, 1992; BC 42, p. 60. ISBN 3-7654-2566-4 .