Provenance Galerie Ludwig Schames, FrankfurtAlfred Flechtheim, Dusseldorf (acquired from the above in 1919)Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf (acquired by donation in 1928-29) Alfred Flechtheim, Dusseldorf (acquired from the above by exchange in 1930 and left in the custody of his niece, Rosi Hulisch, on his departure from Germany in 1933)Kurt Feldhäusser, Berlin (acquired in 1938)Marie Luise Feldhäusser, Berlin (by inheritance from her son, above, in 1945) Erhard Weyhe Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1949) Mr. & Mrs. Morton D. May, St. Louis (acquired by 1952)The Museum of Modern Art, New York (a gift from the above in 1956)The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (by exchange from the above in 1988) Acquired by restitution from the above in 2018 (English)

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Guggenheim Museum Restitutes Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Painting to Heirs of Jewish Collector

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https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=TACQCI309401

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According to a statement issued by the museum, the Guggenheim Foundation spent two years investigating the provenance of Ludwig Kirchner’s Artillerymen, 1915. It learned that the work was in the possession of Flechtheim’s niece, Rosi Hulisch—who committed suicide before she was to be shipped to a concentration camp—when it was acquired by Kurt Feldhäusser, a member of the Nazi party, in 1938.After Feldhäusser was killed in Germany in 1945, his art collection was left to his mother, who consigned it to the Weyhe Gallery in New York a few years later. Morton D. May of St. Louis, Missouri, purchased Artillerymen in 1952 and donated it to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1956. In 1988, the painting was transferred by MoMA to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in exchange for other works. (English)

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Metromod Archive (English)

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https://archive.metromod.net/viewer.p/69/2948/object/5145-11005419

language of work or name

English

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25 January 2023