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Gefilde der Seligen (Realms of the Blessed)
Hans Thoma  (1839 - 1924)
Gefilde der Seligen (Realms of the Blessed), 1879
Painting
Oil on canvas
149 x 109.5 cm
Signed lower left: H. Th. 1879
 
 
Status: The object is looted. Its current location is unknown.

Provenance
  • 1906, probably collection Carl von Grunelius, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  • 1912, with art dealer Karl Haberstock, Berlin.
  • Collection of Heinrich/ Olga Eisner, Berlin.
  • 1918 - December 1939, collection Paul Jakob Eisner, Berlin.
  • December 1939, confiscated by the Gestapo, Berlin, at the Gustav Knauer forwarding agency, Berlin.
  • 19 May 1941, lot no. 44 in the Hans W. Lange, Berlin, sale Gemälde alter und neuerer Meister: aus verschiedenem Besitz, where offered on behalf of the Moabit-West Tax Office, Berlin, and withdrawn from auction and sold by the Moabit-West Tax Office, Berlin, to the Reichskanzlei - persönliche Adjutantur des Führers (Reich Chancellery – Office of the Personal Adjutant to the Führer) and registered in the Linzer Sammlung (Linz Collection).
 
Additional Information
If you can provide any information about the provenance and/or the current location of this object, please contact the OFP Project Berlin-Brandenburg at ofp.provenienz@blha.brandenburg.de or info@lootedart.com
 
Source of Information
OFP Project Berlin-Brandenburg
Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (Brandenburg Main State Archive) (BLHA)
https://blha.brandenburg.de/index.php/the-ofp-project/
PDF (in German) and PDF (in English)
This project, funded by the German federal and state governments, is systematically researching the 42,000 persecuted victim files (Rep. 36 A Oberfinanzpräsident Berlin-Brandenburg (OFP) (II)), of the Vermögensverwertungsstelle (Asset Realisation Office), established in 1942 to liquidate victims’ assets, in order to identify seized artworks and locate them today.

Contact
OFP Project Berlin-Brandenburg
Provenance Research Team
E-Mail: ofp.provenienz@blha.brandenburg.de

Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945
E-Mail: info@lootedart.com

References
Entry for the painting in Der Cicerone. Halbmonatsschrift für die Interessen des Kunstforschers & Sammlers, 4.1912, with illustration.

Catalogue entry for no. 44 in the Hans W. Lange, Berlin, sale Gemälde alter und neuerer Meister: aus verschiedenem Besitz, 19 May 1941, with illustration.

BLHA Rep. 36A Oberfinanzpräsident Berlin-Brandenburg (II) 8094 - 8094/4 entry.

Central Collecting Point Munich Sonderauftrag Linz (Special Commission Linz) database entry.

Bildindex database entry.

Lostart database entry.
 




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