Frühlingslandschaft. Um 1880.
Oil on panel.
Moritz 78. Verso with various hand-written numbers. 36 x 15.5 cm (14.1 x 6.1 in).

PROVENANCE: Collection Sigmund Waldes, Dresden (until 1939/1941).
Devisenstelle beim Oberfinanzpräsidenten Dresden ("safekeeping" from the ownership of the above, 1939-1941).
Deutsches Reich (taken over from the above, until 1943: Hans W. Lange, April 16/17, 1943).
NSDAP, haeadquarters Munich (acquired from the above through Maria Almas Dietrich for Reichsleiter Martin Bormann in 1943: Hans W. Lange, April 16/17, 1943. Verso with the inventory number J 1467 and th enumber B 444/V).
Altaussee, depot (with CCP number Altaussee: 7013).
Central Collecting Point, Munich (October 25, 1945 - June 10, 1949, verso with the Munich number 12115).
Bavarian Prime Ministe (on trust 1949-1952).
Common Trust of Heritag Items at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Repucblic of Germany (on trust, 1952-1956).
Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich (transferred from the above to the State of Bavaria in 1956, until 2021).
Restituted by the Bavarian State Painting Collections to the heirs after Sigmund Waldes (2021).
The work is free from restitution claims.

LITERATURE: Hans W. Lange, Berlin, Verschiedener deutscher Kunstbesitz. Gemälde alter und neuerer Meister; Möbel, Tapisserien, Golddosen, auction on April 16/17, 1943, lot 226.
Wolfgang Johannes Bekh, Die Münchner Maler. Von Jan Pollak bis Franz Marc, Pfaffenhofen 1978, p. 228.
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen / Neue Pinakothek (editor), Deutsche Künstler von Marées bis Slevogt, vol. 3: Sailer – Zumbusch, Munich 2003, p. 100.
Nadine Bauer, Kunstlieferantin des "Dritten Reichs". Umkreis und Wirkungsradius von Maria Dietrich, PhD thesis at TU Berlin, Berlin 2021, p. 340.