LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolour and ink on paper

Size Notes:

27 x 36.8

Description:

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Markings:

signed with monogram and dated 91 lower right

Literature:

Schlesische Monatshefte, 1937, p. 194

Provenance:

Leo Smoschewer, Breslau (1875-1938; industrialist Smoschewer co-owned the Gesellschaft fr Feldbahn-Industrie Smoschewer & Co., a leading manufacturer of narrow-gauge steam locomotives, wagons, and traction engines; the company was aryanised in 1938 to become Feldbahnfabrik F. W. Budich); Else Smoschewer (widow of the above, until 1939); Confiscated by the Nazi authorities in 1939; Art dealers Kunsthandel Wenzel, Breslau (by 1940); Private collection, Germany; Restituted to the heirs of Leo and Else Smoschewer in 2021