Sale: 435 / Art of the 19th Century, Nov. 25. 2016 in Munich Lot 20

 

20
Fritz von Uhde
Die alte Näherin, 1891.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400
Sold:
€ 23,750 / $ 25,412

(incl. surcharge)
Die alte Näherin. 1891.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in lower left margin of image. 61.5 x 43 cm (24.2 x 16.9 in).
Verso of canvas with a stamp of an artist supplies store. Frame and stretcher with several inventory stamps and labels, among others, of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Stuttgart State Gallery. [CB].

PROVENANCE: Art shop Rudolf Bangel, Frankfurt am Main, 1893.
Collection Martin and Florence Flersheim, Frankfurt am Main (before 1908).
1938 compulsory sale, Florence Flersheim through Kunstsalon Hermes, Frankfurt am Main, acquired by Führermuseum Art Gallery Linz (verso of stretcher with the number 216)
1945 Central Collecting Point of the Allied Forces in Munich (verso of frame with the number 8939).
1949 transferred to the Federal Republic of Germany, since 1966 permanent loan at State Gallery Stuttgart (inv. no. L 906).
2010 restituted to the heirs of Florence Flersheim.
Christie's, London, 8 December 2010, lot 317.
Private collection Northern Germany.

EXHIBITION: Exhibition at Kunstsalon Hermes, Frankfurt am Main, 1903 (cf. Die Kunst für Alle 18, 1902/03, p. 342).
Deutsche Malerei in den letzten 50 Jahren. Neue Staatsgalerie München 1924, 3rd cat. version: cat. no. 299, p. 45 (with black and white illu. and with information regading collection Martin Flersheim).
Von Liebermann zu Kollwitz, Von-der-Heydt-Museum Wuppertal 1977, cat. no. 73.
Fritz von Uhde. Vom Realismus zum Impressionismus, Kunsthalle Bremen and Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig 1998/99, cat. no. 43.

LITERATURE: Fritz von Ostini, Uhde, Bielefeld/Leipzig 1902, p. 112 (black and white illu. on p. 104).
Hans Rosenhagen, Uhde. Des Meisters Gemälde in 285 Abbildungen, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1908, p. 108 (with illu. and information regarding collection Martin Flersheim).
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart: Neuerwerbungen 1966, Gemälde. In: Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg 4, 1967, p. 181.
Anne Mochon, Fritz von Uhde and Plein-Air Painting in Munich 1880-1900 (Diss. Yale University New Haven 1973), Michigan 1974, p. 198.
Ex. cat. 'Paris bezauberte mich..'. Käthe Kollwitz und die französische Moderne, Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Cologne, 2010, p. 41 (illu. 37).




20
Fritz von Uhde
Die alte Näherin, 1891.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400
Sold:
€ 23,750 / $ 25,412

(incl. surcharge)