Gustav Klimt and Ernst Klimt

Acquired from the Künstlerhaus 23rd Annual Exhibition in Vienna by Victor Wokaun, 6 April 1895, for 8,400 guilders;

Private collection, Germany;

Whence sold, London, Sotheby's, 27 November 1984, lot 55;

Where acquired by the present owner.

A. Weixlgärtner, 'Gustav Klimt', in Die Graphischen Künste, Vienna 1912, pp. 52–53;

E. Pirchan, Gustav Klimt, Vienna 1956, p. 43, no. 16, reproduced;

C.M. Nebehay, Gustav Klimt. Dokumentation, Vienna 1969, pp. 95–96 and 98;

A. Strobl, 'Hanswurst auf der Stegreifbühne zu Rothenburg, das Burgtheater und das Staffeleibild; Aufklärung eines Mißverständnisses der Klimtliteratur', in Kunst um 1800 und die Folgen. Werner Hofmann zu Ehren, C. Beutler (ed.), Munich 1988, pp. 340 and 342–44, no. 5, reproduced;

A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen 1878–1918, vol. IV, Salzburg 1989, pp. 35–37, reproduced in colour;

S. Partsch, Gustav Klimt Painter of Women, Munich 1994, pp. 28–29, reproduced fig. 18;

A. Weidinger (ed.), Gustav Klimt, Munich, Berlin, London and New York 2007, p. 251, no. 86, reproduced in colour (as Hanswurst on the Stage of the Improvisational Theatre in Rothenburg);

A. Husslein-Arco and A. Weidinger (eds), Gustav Klimt und die Künstler-Compagnie, Vienna 2007, p. 117, reproduced in colour;

T.G. Natter (ed.), Gustav Klimt. The Complete Paintings, Cologne 2012, pp. 546–47, no. 76, reproduced in colour (as Gustav Klimt with Ernst Klimt).

Vienna, Künstlerhaus, XXIII Jahres-Ausstellung, 30 March 1895, no. 403.