Half-Length Portrait of Two Nude Women (Q15855872)
painting by Otto Mueller at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
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Current Data About Half-Length Portrait of Two Nude Women
(P18) Image Provided By https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Otto_Mueller_-_Zwei_Halbakte_%281%29.jpg

(P31) (Q3305213)
(P143)

(P127) (Q43197037)
(P854) https://www.lootedart.com/MFEU4D99071_print;Y
(P1683) "In 1999 the museum returned the painting Zwei weibliche Halbakte (Two Female Nudes ) (1919) by Otto Mueller to the heirs of Dr. Ismar Littmann. The work had entered the collection of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in 1946 as part of a gift from Cologne collector Josef Haubrich. When the modern art Museum Ludwig was created in 1976, the 20th century collection of the Wallraf-Richarz Museum was transferred into it, and the Otto Mueller painting became integrated into the collection of the Museum Ludwig.The painting was originally part of the collection of Breslau (Wroclaw) collector Dr. Ismar Littmann (1878-1934), who met Otto Mueller when the latter was nominated professor at the local School of Art and Design. In 1934 Littmann committed suicide. In February 1935 his widow put the collection up for auction through the dealer Max Perl, Berlin. But two days before the auction sixty-four Littmann works were confiscated by the Gestapo, including this painting by Mueller, which was among the few works chosen by Eberhard Hanfstaengl, director of the Nationalgalerie, when he was asked to choose those with "sale value"" (language: en)

(Q119148235)

(Q43250)
(P585) +1935-00-00T00:00:00Z
(P854) https://www.lootedart.com/MFEU4D99071_print;Y

(Q15126735)

(Q1259387)
(P854) https://www.lootedart.com/MFEU4D99071_print;Y
(P1683) "But two days before the auction sixty-four Littmann works were confiscated by the Gestapo, including this painting by Mueller, which was among the few works chosen by Eberhard Hanfstaengl, director of the Nationalgalerie, when he was asked to choose those with "sale value". Most of the others, if not all, are believed to have been burnt. In 1937 the painting was confiscated from the Nationalgalerie as "degenerate art" and displayed at the eponymous Munich exhibition that same year. In 1939 it was put up for sale in the auction of 'Paintings and Sculpture by Modern Masters from German Museums' at the Fischer Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland. Unsold, it was returned to Germany, where the art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt purchased it for $100, selling it to Josef Haubrich two years later. Before being alerted to its real provenance in 1998, the Museum Ludwig states it had no reason to suspect the painting's history as it was registered as originating from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin." (language: en)

(Q703640)

(P135) (Q80113)

(P136) (Q40446)

(P170) (Q317041)

(P180) (Q467)
(P1114) 2

(Q83772)

(Q2367101)

(P186) (Q175166)

(Q911285)
(P518)

(P195) (Q703640)
(P854) https://www.lootedart.com/MFEU4D99071_print;Y
(P1683) "In 1934 Littmann committed suicide. In February 1935 his widow put the collection up for auction through the dealer Max Perl, Berlin. But two days before the auction sixty-four Littmann works were confiscated by the Gestapo, including this painting by Mueller, which was among the few works chosen by Eberhard Hanfstaengl, director of the Nationalgalerie, when he was asked to choose those with "sale value". Most of the others, if not all, are believed to have been burnt. In 1937 the painting was confiscated from the Nationalgalerie as "degenerate art" and displayed at the eponymous Munich exhibition that same year. In 1939 it was put up for sale in the auction of 'Paintings and Sculpture by Modern Masters from German Museums' at the Fischer Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland. Unsold, it was returned to Germany, where the art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt purchased it for $100, selling it to Josef Haubrich two years later. Before being alerted to its real provenance in 1998, the Museum Ludwig states it had no reason to suspect the painting's history as it was registered as originating from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin." (language: en)

(P217) ML 76/2757
(P195)

(P276) (Q703640)

(P571) +1919-00-00T00:00:00Z
(P143)

(P793) (Q328376)
(P854) https://www.lootedart.com/MFEU4D99071_print;Y

(Q107614552)

(Q2146005)
(P854) https://www.lootedart.com/MFEU4D99071_print;Y

(P1476) "Zwei weibliche Halbakte" (language: de)

(P2048) 87.5

(P2049) 70.5

(P6216) (Q19652)
(P1001)
(P459)

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aliases Two Female Nudes
 painting by Otto Mueller, looted by Nazis and restituted to the heirs of Dr. Ismar Littmann
description painting by Otto Mueller at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

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