Arnold Böcklin

Max and Theodor Klopfer, Munich, by 1902;

Their sale, Munich, Hugo Helbing, 24 November 1908, lot 7 (as Cimbernkampf);

Where purchased by Philipp Rosenthal (1855–1937), Berlin and Berg am Starnberger See;

Acquired by Leberecht, Berlin in 1943 and since then in the family;

By whom offered, Düsseldorf, Christie’s, 13 November 1973, lot 2 (as Kampf der Cimbern und Teutonen);

Private collection, Germany, until 2015;

From whom acquired and sold thereafter to the present owner.

H.A. Schmid, Arnold Böcklin, Eine Auswahl der hervorragendsten Werke des Künstlers in Photogravüre, vol. 1, Munich 1892, reproduced pl. 3;

H.A. Schmid, ‘Arnold Böcklin. Sein Leben und sein Schaffen’, in Arnold Böcklin, Eine Auswahl der hervorragendsten Werke des Künstlers in Photogravüre, vol. 4, Munich 1901, p. 66;

A. Frey, Arnold Böcklin, Stuttgart 1912, pp. 95–96 and 136;

H.A. Schmid, ‘Böcklin und die Alten Meister’, in Die Kunst, part 2, vol. 37, Munich 1918, p. 240;

F. von Ostini, Böcklin, Bielefeld 1925, p. 112;

G.J. Wolf, Arnold Böcklin. Aus Leben und Schaffen, Munich 1927, p. 53, reproduced;

G. Kleineberg, Die Entwicklung der Naturpersonifizierung im Werk Arnold Böcklins, Göttingen 1971, p. 161;

S. Wichmann, 'Der Kampf auf der Brücke von A. Böcklin', in Weltkunst, 46th Annual, 1 August 1976, p. 1391, reproduced (reproduced in colour on the cover);

S. Wichmann, Arnold Böcklin, 1827–1901. Schlachten, Amazonen- und Brückenkampf, Sindelfingen 1977, pp. 12–43 (for a discussion of the signature and monogram);

R. Andree, Arnold Böcklin. Die Gemälde, Zurich 1977, p. 488, no. 418, reproduced;

B. Krimmel, A. Böcklin, 1827–1901, exh. cat., Darmstadt 1977, vol. 1, pp. 133–35, reproduced p. 134, vol. 2, no. 51 and in colour p. 119;

Fischer Fine Art Ltd, The Bourgeois Paradise, exh. cat., London 1978, n. p., no. 9, reproduced in colour;

G. Magnaguagno and J. Steiner (eds), Arnold Böcklin, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, exh. cat., Bern 1997, p. 190, p. 439, no. 77, reproduced in colour p. 190;

K. Schmidt and C. Lenz, Arnold Böcklin, 1827–1901, exh. cat., Paris, Munich and Basel 2001, p. 304, no. 81, reproduced in colour p. 307.

N. Van Hout, 'Violence', in Rubens and His Legacy, exh. cat., Brussels and London 2014–15, pp. 56–58, no. 20, reproduced in colour pp. 60–61.

Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, A. Böcklin, 1827–1901, 23 October – 11 December 1977, no. 51;

London, Fischer Fine Art Ltd, The Bourgeois Paradise, 15 March – 12 May 1978, no. 9;

Zurich, Kunsthaus; Munich, Haus der Kunst; and Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Arnold Böcklin, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, 3 October 1997 – 18 January 1998; 5 February – 3 May 1998; and 20 May – 10 August 1998, no. 77;

Basel, Kunstmuseum; Paris, Musée d’Orsay; and Munich, Neue Pinakothek, Arnold Böcklin, 19 May – 26 August 2001; 1 October 2001 – 15 January 2002; and 14 February – 26 May 2002, no. 81;

Zurich, Kunsthaus (on long term loan until 2014);

Brussels, BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts and London, Royal Academy of Arts, Rubens and His Legacy, 25 September 2014 – 4 January 2015 and 24 January – 10 April 2015, no. 20.