Roman Campagna (Lovis Corinth)

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“ Römische Campagna ”, painted by Lovis Corinth in 1914 , auctioned by Curt Glaser in 1933 for the purpose of emigration , restituted in 2007

Roman Campagna is the title of an oil painting on canvas created by Lovis Corinth in 1914 with the dimensions 71.5 cm × 96 cm. In 2007 it was restituted by the state capital Hanover .

history

"Annex to the transfer agreement of July 20, 1949 with Doebbeke , Berlin-Wannsee "; under “Lovis Corinth” position five: “Roman Campagna”;
Document from the possession of the Hanover City Archives

Before the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, the painting belonged to the - private - Collection of the Director of the National Art Library Berlin , Curt Glaser . Glaser, too , had been dismissed from office under the “Law to Restore the Professional Civil Service” and eventually sold large parts of his belongings to finance his emigration from Nazi Germany, including the Roman Campagna. The oil painting thus became one of several items that were auctioned on May 9, 1933 as the "collection and library of a Berlin art lover" through the International Art and Auction House GmbH in Berlin . Before 1945 it came into the collection of Conrad Doebbeke from Berlin.

Doebbeke sold the work - together with more than 100 other works of largely unclear origin ( provenance ) - in 1949 to the city of Hanover . Since 1950 the painting has been on permanent loan from the city in the State Gallery of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover . After the City Council of Hanover classified the painting as a work of art confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution within the meaning of the Washington Declaration , it was restituted to the heirs of the previous owner on September 24, 2007 .

In 2008 and 2009, in connection with the exhibition “Robbery and Restitution. Cultural Property from Jewish Ownership from 1933 to the Present ”in the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Jewish Museum of the City of Frankfurt am Main deals with the history of both the painting and the fate of its former owner. Michael Dorrmann wrote in the book accompanying the exhibition on the subject of A Corinth from the Glaser Collection (see literature).

The picture was auctioned by the heirs in February 2010 via Sotheby’s in London .

literature

  • Michael Dorrmann: A Corinth from the Glaser Collection , in Inka Bertz, Michael Dorrmann (Ed.): Robbery and Restitution. Jewish property from 1933 to the present day . Accompanying document to the exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main from September 19, 2008 to January 25, 2009 in Berlin and from April 22 to August 2, 2009 in Frankfurt am Main, ed. on behalf of the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main, Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0361-4 , pp. 46–67

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Katja Lembke (Responsible), Dennis von Wildenradt (Red.): Previous restitutions in the Landesmuseum Hannover on the landesmuseum-hannover.niedersachsen.de page in the version of January 21, 2016
  2. ↑ 1889-1954; Lawyer, Berlin art dealer and collector; 1931 member of the NSDAP. GND = 126098530
  3. ↑ artsalesindex .