Adele von Le-Suire, stehend
c. 1887
not on displayAlbert von Keller1844 Gais – 1920 München
We have 10 artworks by Albert von Keller online.
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We have 1652 paintings online.
Also known as
Adele von Le-Suire, Standing
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 111 x 49 x 2.5 cm
Inventory number
AvK 238.A
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Seized from Alfred Sommerguth by the Nazis in 1939, donated by his heirs and Hannelore Müller in 2010
Signature
inscr. b. l.: ALBERT KELLER
Inscriptions
verso u. l. on stretcher in blue: 58398: next to it on label: 273; u. r.: [illegible, number?]
Accession year
2007
Provenance
- Albert von Keller (*1844 Gais, +1920 München) (Künstler/-in)
- [Verbleib unbekannt?]
- o.D. – höchstens bis 7.2.1939, Gertrud und Alfred Sommerguth (Sammler/-in), Berlin
- 7.2.1939, H. W. Lange (Auktion), Berlin, Beschlagnahme, Lot 34
- Verbleib unbekannt
- 15.4.1964 – 18.4.1964, Kunsthaus Lempertz - Auktionshaus in Köln (Auktion), Köln, Lot 206
- David Stössel (Vermittler/-in)
- 18.4.1964 – 1994, Oskar A. Müller (*1899 Chur, +1994 Zürich), Zürich, Kauf
- 1994 – 2007, Hannelore Müller-Behrendt (*1930, +2013), Nachlass
- ab 2007, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Geschenk
- ab 2010, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, gütliche Einigung, mit den Erben und als Schenkung der Erben und Hannelore Müller erworbenhttp://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/275983
About the provenance
In 2009, the Kunsthaus staged an exhibition on the work of Albert von Keller to mark a major gift of his paintings from the estate of the Zurich art collector Oskar A. Müller in 2007. On the basis of the catalogue compiled for the exhibition, external experts established that two of the paintings in the gift, the work ‘Madame la Suire’ (AvK 238) and antother work, ‘Nude on the Beach / Evening,’ could be looted art. The Kunsthaus reviewed the evidence and, when the suspicions were confirmed, offered to return the works to the original owners’ heirs or purchase it from them.
‘Madame la Suire,’ was once owned by the Jewish art collector Alfred Sommerguth. The work turned out to have been compulsorily auctioned by the Nazi authorities in Berlin a few months before the outbreak of the Second World War. However, the heirs of Alfred Sommerguth generously decided to donate the oil painting to the Kunsthaus, merely requesting that a notice to this effect be placed by the work when it is exhibited.
The second work, Alfred von Keller’s ‘Nude on a Beach / Evening’ had been in the collection of the Berlin commercial judge and merchant Jean Baer since 1919. When he died in 1930, his widow Ida Bear inherited the art collection. After the National Socialists came to power, Ida Baer was collectively persecuted as a Jew. Between 1939 and her deportation in August 1942 to the concentration camp Theresienstadt, the trace of the art collection is lost. Ida Baer was murdered in Theresienstadt in 1942.
In 2012, with the help of Hannelore Müller's donation, the work was legally acquired on the basis of an agreement with the heirs.
State of research 18.10.2019
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Literature (general)
- Albert von Keller. Salon, Séancen, Secession, hrsg. von Gian Casper Bott, Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthaus Zürich, München: Hirmer, 2009.
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