Three graces (Q30077266)
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painting by Lovis Corinth
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Three graces |
painting by Lovis Corinth |
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1904
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Drei Grazien (German)
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Between sometime between 1940 and 1941, the Corinth painting was located in the Buchholz Gallery operated by Curt Valentin. If that name sounds familiar to readers, it is because Valentin and Kurt Buchholz were a primary destination for much of the “degenerate art” seized by the Nazis and sold for hard currency abroad. Art dealer Sigfried Rosengart in Lucerne later wrote in a 1951 letter that he had heard reports from New York that Valentin “had acquired [the painting] about ten years ago at a Public Auction Sale.” Rosengart sold the painting in 1949 on commission for the Buchholz Gallery to Prof. Dr. Max Huggler, director of the Kunstmuseum Bern (the same museum currently pondering its appointment as Cornelius Gurlitt’s heir) and brought it to Bern. The Bavarian State Painting Collections (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen) acquired the painting from Huggler in 1950 (English)
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The painting "Three Graces", an early work of Lovis Corinth (1902/04), had been owned and possessed by Clara Levy's deceased husband, Ludwig Levy, since 1917. Upon his death in 1921, Clara Levy had inherited the painting. In March 1939, the painting together with Clara Levy's household effects was moved to the cloth mill in Schleifmühle, Luxembourg, which was managed by her son, Fritz Levy. Clara Levy died on 27 March 1940 in Luxembourg leaving her estate in equal shares to her four children so that the ownership of the painting passed to the four children upon her death. (English)
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150.0 centimetre
164.5 centimetre