HANS THOMA | The Rhine at Säckingen in the Black Forest

Felix Herrmann, Berlin (by 1909)

Paul Rauers, Munich (by 1919 and until at least 1922)

Dr Max Emden, Hamburg (1874-1940. The son of a wealthy merchant, Max Emden was a renowned textile trader who expanded his company within a successful franchising model supplying stores all over Germany. Despite his status as a converted Jew and a protestant Swiss citizen, Max Emden was subject to racial persecution and was the target of Nazi compulsory confiscation of his assets which led him to insolvency and to the forced sale of part of his art collection. His son and sole heir, Hans Erich Emden, was stripped of German citizenship in May of 1940 and forced to flee to South America.)

Fritz and Peter Nathan, Zurich; thence by descent to the present owner

Hans Thoma, Im Herbste des Lebens. Gesammelte Erinnerungsblätter, Munich, 1909, p. 41, cited

Henry Thode, ed., 'Thoma: Des Meisters Gemälde', Klassiker der Kunst, vol. XV, Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1909, p. 29, catalogued & illustrated (as Säckingen)

Hans Thoma, Im Winter des Lebens, Jena, 1919, p. 52

Ludwig Justi, ed., Hans Thoma: hundert Gemälde aus deutschem Privatbesitz, Berlin, 1922, no. 19, catalogued & illustrated (as Säckingen)

Christina von Helmolt, Hans Thoma: Spiegelbilder, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 159, illustrated

This lot is offered pursuant to a settlement agreement between the present owner and the heirs of Dr Max Emden.