Improvisation 10 (Q111798796)
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painting by Wassily Kandinsky 1910
- Improvisation No. 10
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painting by Wassily Kandinsky 1910 |
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Improvisation Nr. 10 (German)
1919
1937
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Sophie Küppers-Lissitsky bought the painting in Germany in 1919 and then lent it to the Hanover gallery in 1926, shortly before she moved to Moscow. In 1937, the Kandinsky was seized by the Nazis and featured in their infamous Degenerate Art Exhibition held in Munich later that year. (The Third Reich had an unhappy relationship with modernism, distrusting all forms of artistic experiment or abstraction; any art that could not be controlled or understood was quickly stamped out.) Improvisation No 10 was then sold cheaply to Ferdinand Möller, one of four modern art dealers favoured by Goebbels and Goering; it was Möller's job to raise funds for the Reich by selling unwanted masterpieces to foreign collectors. (English)
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Note: 2002 Restitutionsanspruch von jen Lissitzky; Entschädigungszahlung (German)
Son of El Lissitzky files for return of another war loot KandinskyThe dispute revolves around the work 'Improvisation No.10'The Art Newspaper1 September 2001ShareThe New York attorneys of Jen Lissitzky, son of the Russian artist El Lissitzky, filed a complaint on 13 July against the Beyeler Foundation in Basel. Mr Lissitzky is seeking to recover Wassily Kandinsky’s “Improvisation No.10” that was looted by the Nazis in 1937. Mr Lissitzky has been trying to reach an out of court settlement with Ernst Beyeler, the Basel dealer and collector, since 1989. The Kandinsky was one of 13 works that made up Sophie-Küppers-Lissitzky collection; two other paintings from the collection have already been returned to Mr Lissitzky (English)
140 centimetre
120 centimetre
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Lissitsky's current legal battle centres on Kandinsky's early abstract masterpiece, Improvisation No 10, which has been hanging in the Beyeler Foundation gallery in Basle for decades. Sophie Küppers-Lissitsky bought the painting in Germany in 1919 and then lent it to the Hanover gallery in 1926, shortly before she moved to Moscow. In 1937, the Kandinsky was seized by the Nazis and featured in their infamous Degenerate Art Exhibition held in Munich later that year. (The Third Reich had an unhappy relationship with modernism, distrusting all forms of artistic experiment or abstraction; any art that could not be controlled or understood was quickly stamped out.) Improvisation No 10 was then sold cheaply to Ferdinand Möller, one of four modern art dealers favoured by Goebbels and Goering; it was Möller's job to raise funds for the Reich by selling unwanted masterpieces to foreign collectors.In 1951 Ernst Beyeler, then a fledgling collector and the founder of the Basle gallery, bought the painting from Möller for DM15,000. The painting, it is reckoned, could now fetch as much as $100 million at auction. The rear of the canvas still bears the catalogue number for the Nazis' degenerate art exhibition - EK-16057, EK standing for entartete Kunst, degenerate art - suggesting that a knowledgeable buyer in the 1950s should have had suspicions about its provenanc (English)
Improvisation 10 - Wassily Kandinsky
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