Oil on canvas. Soika 1911/70. Signed and dated in lower left. Inscribed “Ruhende / 500 / M. Pechstein“ on the reverse. 75 x 101 cm.
• Outstanding museum-quality masterpiece - for nine decades part of the collection of the Nationalgalerie, Berlin. • Pechstein transforms Edvard Munch’s scandalous picture “The Day After“ from 1894 (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo) into a declaration of love to his young wife Lotte. • Lotte - his most inspiring model in the vibrant art metropolis Berlin. • Pechstein captured the intimate moment in his progressive masterwork with dynamic color contrasts, a strong intensity and an immediate close-up view. • Returned by the ‘Stiftung Preußische Museen, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin’ to the heirs of the acclaimed art collector Dr. Ismar Littmann in an amicable agreement. Further works from the Collection Dr. Ismar Littmann you will find in our Modern Art Day Dale on Saturday, June 10th, 2023 (lot 320 and lot 321). LITERATURE: Max Perl, Berlin, Bücher des 15.-20. Jahrh.: darunter Bücher aus der Bibliothek Robert Steinberg, Bielefeld ; Gemälde, Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Graphik, Kunstgewerbe, Plastik, 188th auction, February 26/27, 1935, no. 2566. Inventory catalog State Museums Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Gemälde des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Friedegund Weidemann, Berlin 1976, p. 63 (with black-and-white illu.). Horst Jähner, Künstlergruppe Brücke. Geschichte einer Gemeinschaft und das Lebenswerk ihrer Repräsentanten, Berlin 1984 (with black-and-white illu. on p. 312). Das Schicksal einer Sammlung. Die Neue Abteilung der Nationalgalerie im ehemaligen Kronprinzen-Palais. Zu einer Dokumentation anlässlich der Ausstellung "Expressionisten - Die Avantgarde in Deutschland 1905-1920“, ed. by Andreas Hüneke et al, ex. cat. State Museums Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1986, pp. 37, 48 (with illu. on p. 36). Das Schicksal einer Sammlung. Aufbau und Zerstörung der Neuen Abteilung der Nationalgalerie im ehemaligen Kronprinzen-Palais Unter den Linden. 1918-1945, ed. by Annegret Janda, ex. cat. State Museums Berlin/DDR, Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1988; pp. 68, 86 (with black-and-white illu. on p. 70). Die Brücke und die Moderne 1904-1914, October 21 - January 15, 2006, ex. cat. Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Munich 2004, p. 168 (with illu.). Maike Steinkamp, Das unerwünschte Erbe. Die Rezeption ,,entarteter“ Kunst in Kunstkritik, Ausstellungen und Museen der SBZ und der frühen DDR, Berlin 2008, p. 75 (with black-and-white illu.). Lynn Rother, Kunst durch Kredit. Die Berliner Museen und ihre Erwerbungen von der Dresdner Bank 1935, Berlin 2017, pp. 13-51 (on the acquisitions made by Berlin museums) and p. 432 (on this work). ARCHIVE MATERIAL List of Littmann Collection, no. 265 (copy by Mrs. Littman, Wharton; copy in Pechstein Archive, Hamburg). List 40 (bank mandate ‘Schwedenberg’, Breslau branch), no date [August 15, 1935], in: GStA-PK, I. HA Rep. 151, HB, no. 1234. List 40 (bank mandate ‘Schwedenberg’, Breslau branch), annotated copy of the Schlossmuseum, July 30, 1935, in: SMB-ZA, I/KGM 2. List 40 (bank mandate ‘Schwedenberg’, Breslau branch), annotated copy of the Gemäldegalerie, no date [July 30, 1935], ll. 1-134, in: SMB-ZA, I/GG 341. List 40 (bank mandate ‘Schwedenberg’, Breslau branch), annotated copy of S. v. Carolsfeld, no date [August 1935], in: KGM archive..
XXIV. Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, Ausstellungshaus am Kurfürstendamm, Berlin 1912, cat. no. 195. Max Pechstein. Das ferne Paradies, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen, November 26, 1995 - January 28, 1996; Städtisches Museum Zwickau, February 18 - April 14, 1996, cat. no. 5 (with illu. on plate 5) Max Pechstein - Sein malerisches Werk, ed. by Magdalena Moeller, Brücke Museum, Berlin, September 22, 1996 - January 1, 1997; Kunsthalle Tübingen January 11 - April 6, 1997; Kunsthalle Kiel April 20 - June 15, 1997, cat. no. 68, p. 315 (with illu.). Max Pechstein. Werke aus dem Brücke-Museum Berlin und anderen Sammlungen, Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, July 6 - September 15. 2002, no. Z 8 (with illu. on p. 18). Brücke und Berlin, 100 Jahre Expressionismus Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, June 8 - August 28, 2005; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, February 24 - May 21, 2006 (here titled: 100 Jahre Brücke - Expressionismus aus Berlin), cat. no. 336 (with illu. on p. 37)
Dr. Ismar Littmann Collection, Breslau (until September 23, 1934). Estate of Dr. Ismar Littmann, Breslau (inherited from Dr. Ismar Littmann on September 23, 1934, until ca. 1934/35: Dresdner Bank). Dresdner Bank, Breslau (as security from the above, bank mandate “Schwedenberg (Breslau branch)“). Auction house Max Perl, Berlin, February 26/27, 1935 (consigned by the above, not sold). Dresdner Bank, Breslau (bank mandate “Schwedenberg (Breslau branch)“). State-owned (since August 15, 1935: en-bloc acquisition of pledged property and own property of Dresdner Bank through the Prussian State). Nationalgalerie, Berlin (since December 10, 1936: taken over from the above in line with deecree Vd 29/36). Nationalgalerie East Berlin (belatedly inventoried in 1968). Nationalgalerie, State Museums Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (since 1991: Inventory no. A IV 204, merger of East/West collections). Restituted to the heirs after Dr. Ismar Littmann, Breslau (2022)
Condition report on request katalogisierung@kettererkunst.de
Lot Details
Oil on canvas. Soika 1911/70. Signed and dated in lower left. Inscribed “Ruhende / 500 / M. Pechstein“ on the reverse. 75 x 101 cm.
• Outstanding museum-quality masterpiece - for nine decades part of the collection of the Nationalgalerie, Berlin. • Pechstein transforms Edvard Munch’s scandalous picture “The Day After“ from 1894 (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo) into a declaration of love to his young wife Lotte. • Lotte - his most inspiring model in the vibrant art metropolis Berlin. • Pechstein captured the intimate moment in his progressive masterwork with dynamic color contrasts, a strong intensity and an immediate close-up view. • Returned by the ‘Stiftung Preußische Museen, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin’ to the heirs of the acclaimed art collector Dr. Ismar Littmann in an amicable agreement. Further works from the Collection Dr. Ismar Littmann you will find in our Modern Art Day Dale on Saturday, June 10th, 2023 (lot 320 and lot 321). LITERATURE: Max Perl, Berlin, Bücher des 15.-20. Jahrh.: darunter Bücher aus der Bibliothek Robert Steinberg, Bielefeld ; Gemälde, Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Graphik, Kunstgewerbe, Plastik, 188th auction, February 26/27, 1935, no. 2566. Inventory catalog State Museums Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Gemälde des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Friedegund Weidemann, Berlin 1976, p. 63 (with black-and-white illu.). Horst Jähner, Künstlergruppe Brücke. Geschichte einer Gemeinschaft und das Lebenswerk ihrer Repräsentanten, Berlin 1984 (with black-and-white illu. on p. 312). Das Schicksal einer Sammlung. Die Neue Abteilung der Nationalgalerie im ehemaligen Kronprinzen-Palais. Zu einer Dokumentation anlässlich der Ausstellung "Expressionisten - Die Avantgarde in Deutschland 1905-1920“, ed. by Andreas Hüneke et al, ex. cat. State Museums Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1986, pp. 37, 48 (with illu. on p. 36). Das Schicksal einer Sammlung. Aufbau und Zerstörung der Neuen Abteilung der Nationalgalerie im ehemaligen Kronprinzen-Palais Unter den Linden. 1918-1945, ed. by Annegret Janda, ex. cat. State Museums Berlin/DDR, Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1988; pp. 68, 86 (with black-and-white illu. on p. 70). Die Brücke und die Moderne 1904-1914, October 21 - January 15, 2006, ex. cat. Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Munich 2004, p. 168 (with illu.). Maike Steinkamp, Das unerwünschte Erbe. Die Rezeption ,,entarteter“ Kunst in Kunstkritik, Ausstellungen und Museen der SBZ und der frühen DDR, Berlin 2008, p. 75 (with black-and-white illu.). Lynn Rother, Kunst durch Kredit. Die Berliner Museen und ihre Erwerbungen von der Dresdner Bank 1935, Berlin 2017, pp. 13-51 (on the acquisitions made by Berlin museums) and p. 432 (on this work). ARCHIVE MATERIAL List of Littmann Collection, no. 265 (copy by Mrs. Littman, Wharton; copy in Pechstein Archive, Hamburg). List 40 (bank mandate ‘Schwedenberg’, Breslau branch), no date [August 15, 1935], in: GStA-PK, I. HA Rep. 151, HB, no. 1234. List 40 (bank mandate ‘Schwedenberg’, Breslau branch), annotated copy of the Schlossmuseum, July 30, 1935, in: SMB-ZA, I/KGM 2. List 40 (bank mandate ‘Schwedenberg’, Breslau branch), annotated copy of the Gemäldegalerie, no date [July 30, 1935], ll. 1-134, in: SMB-ZA, I/GG 341. List 40 (bank mandate ‘Schwedenberg’, Breslau branch), annotated copy of S. v. Carolsfeld, no date [August 1935], in: KGM archive..
XXIV. Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, Ausstellungshaus am Kurfürstendamm, Berlin 1912, cat. no. 195. Max Pechstein. Das ferne Paradies, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen, November 26, 1995 - January 28, 1996; Städtisches Museum Zwickau, February 18 - April 14, 1996, cat. no. 5 (with illu. on plate 5) Max Pechstein - Sein malerisches Werk, ed. by Magdalena Moeller, Brücke Museum, Berlin, September 22, 1996 - January 1, 1997; Kunsthalle Tübingen January 11 - April 6, 1997; Kunsthalle Kiel April 20 - June 15, 1997, cat. no. 68, p. 315 (with illu.). Max Pechstein. Werke aus dem Brücke-Museum Berlin und anderen Sammlungen, Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, July 6 - September 15. 2002, no. Z 8 (with illu. on p. 18). Brücke und Berlin, 100 Jahre Expressionismus Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, June 8 - August 28, 2005; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, February 24 - May 21, 2006 (here titled: 100 Jahre Brücke - Expressionismus aus Berlin), cat. no. 336 (with illu. on p. 37)
Dr. Ismar Littmann Collection, Breslau (until September 23, 1934). Estate of Dr. Ismar Littmann, Breslau (inherited from Dr. Ismar Littmann on September 23, 1934, until ca. 1934/35: Dresdner Bank). Dresdner Bank, Breslau (as security from the above, bank mandate “Schwedenberg (Breslau branch)“). Auction house Max Perl, Berlin, February 26/27, 1935 (consigned by the above, not sold). Dresdner Bank, Breslau (bank mandate “Schwedenberg (Breslau branch)“). State-owned (since August 15, 1935: en-bloc acquisition of pledged property and own property of Dresdner Bank through the Prussian State). Nationalgalerie, Berlin (since December 10, 1936: taken over from the above in line with deecree Vd 29/36). Nationalgalerie East Berlin (belatedly inventoried in 1968). Nationalgalerie, State Museums Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (since 1991: Inventory no. A IV 204, merger of East/West collections). Restituted to the heirs after Dr. Ismar Littmann, Breslau (2022)
Condition report on request katalogisierung@kettererkunst.de
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