Carl Spitzweg

The Drunkard (Der Betrunkene)

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October 6, 03:59 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, United States

Carl Spitzweg

German 1808-1885

The Drunkard (Der Betrunkene)

signed with artist's monogram and dated lower right: CS/1836

oil on panel

panel: 11 ⅜ by 8 ⅜ in.; 29 by 21.3 cm

framed: 17 ½ by 14 ½ in.; 45 by 37 cm

August von Rothmund (1830-1906), Munich;

with Galerie G. A. Sturm, Munich, by 1911;

Their sale; Galerie Helbing, Munich, 24 October, 1911, lot 151;

Heinrich Morgenstern (1869-1944), Fürth;

Forced sale; Galerie Gurlitt, Berlin, March 1939;

with Kunsthandel Schöninger, Munich, by 1946;

René von Schleinitz (1890-1972), Milwaukee;

Gifted by the above to The Milwaukee Art Museum, 1962;

Restituted to the heirs of Heinrich Morgenstern, 2020.

Carl Spitzweg. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis seiner Gemälde, Ölstudien und Aquarelle, Munich, 1960, p. 208, illustrated as Ein Betrunkener.

Carl Spitzweg, Milwaukee, Grohmann Museum, 15 March-15 September 2015, p. 36.

Carl Spitzweg - Erwin Wurm: Köstlich! Köstlich?, Vienna, Leopold Museum, 25 March-19 June 2017, pp. 81, 212, illustrated, as Der Trunkenbold.

Milwaukee, Grohmann Museum, Carl Spitzweg, 15 March-15 September 2015, p. 36.

Vienna, Leopold Museum, Carl Spitzweg - Erwin Wurm: Köstlich! Köstlich?, 25 March-19 June 2017, pp. 81, 212, illustrated as Der Trunkenbold.