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George Grosz Verlobung unter dem Weihnachtsbaum (Engagement under the Christmas Tree), 1922/1923

Photolithograph on paper, 502 x 382 mm on recto, lower right, signed in pencil: “GROSZ”; lower left, in pencil: “10/60” on verso, lower left, inscribed in pencil: “III/75”, ”158_61_b”

Provenance: (…) 1937: Seized by the German Reich in the campaign against “degenerate art” (?) Subsequently acquired by (?) Thence by descent to Cornelius Gurlitt, Munich/Salzburg From 6 May 2014: Estate of Cornelius Gurlitt

Bibliographical references: Dückers, Alexander. George Grosz: Das druckgraphische Werk. Frankfurt/Main: Propyläen, 1979. [no. E 86, ill.]

Primary sources: Hildebrand Gurlitt and Cornelius Gurlitt Papers: Register of Salzburg works, 2014, no. Wien 153_61b

Hildebrand Gurlitt and Cornelius Gurlitt Papers – possible reference:

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Correspondence: BArch, N 1826/179, fol. 181. Hildebrand Gurlitt to Kauffmann: confirmation of the purchase of c. 150 graphic works, 28 May 1948

Database “Entartete Kunst” – possible reference: EK 8366 [Dresden, Staatliches Kupferstichkabinett] EK 11788 [Gelsenkirchen, Städtische Kunstsammlung] EK 9391 [Stuttgart, Württembergische Staatsgalerie] EK 7087 [Hannover, Provinzial-Museum] EK 2936 [Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum]

Further sources consulted: Wolfradt, Willi. George Grosz. Vol 21 of Junge Kunst. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1921. George Grosz. Exh. cat., Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, 29 March–24 April 1926. Baur, John I. H. George Grosz. London: Thames & Hudson, 1954. George Grosz: Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of George Grosz. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January–February 1954. Grosz, George. Ein kleines Ja und ein großes Nein: Sein Leben von ihm selbst erzählt. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1955. Bittner, Herbert, ed. George Grosz. 1st ed., New York: Arts, 1960; transl., Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1961. Anders, Günther. George Grosz. Zurich: Die Arche, 1961. George Grosz 1893–1959. Exh. cat., Akademie der Künste, , 7 October–30 December 1962. Ohne Hemmung: Gesicht und Kehrseite der Jahre 1914–1924. Schonungslos enthüllt von George Grosz. Exh. cat., Galerie Meta Nierendorf, Berlin, 8 October 1962–17 January 1963. George Grosz 1893–1959. Exh. cat., Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 7 October–30 December 1962; Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, 25 January–3 March 1963. George Grosz 1893–1959. Exh. cat., Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, 7 February–21 March 1965; Neue Galerie der Stadt Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz, 25 March–25 April 1965; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 30 April–23 May 1965. George Grosz. Exh. cat., Marlborough Gallery, London, April 1968. Lewis, Beth Irwin. George Grosz: Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. George Grosz: Frühe Druckgraphik, Sammelwerke, Illustrierte Bücher 1914–1923. Exh. cat., Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, 21 May–27 June 1971. Schneede, Uwe M., ed. George Grosz: Leben und Werk. Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje, 1975.

Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Archive) Bundesarchiv, Berlin Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume Database “Central Collecting Point München” Database “Kunstsammlung Hermann Göring” Getty Provenance Index, German Sales Catalogs Lootedart.com

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Lost Art Répertoire des Biens Spoliés Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague Zentralarchiv der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Note: One of an edition of sixty, mostly unnumbered prints. Research showed that several museums in Germany owned a lithograph of the same motif, which were seized by the German Reich in August 1937, in the course of the radical purging from public collections of what the Nazis referred to as “degenerate art”. They were subsequently acquired by Hildebrand Gurlitt. It is feasible to assume that this sheet probably originated in one of those collections and therefore does not belong to the category of looted art.

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