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Object record excerpt for Lost Art ID: 533052
Wassily Kandinsky
Radierung für die “Deutsche Kunstgemeinschaft” (Etching for the “Deutsche Kunstgemeinschaft”),
1926
Etching with drypoint on paper, 338 x 247 mm
on recto, lower left, monogrammed and dated in the plate: “WK 26”;
on recto, lower right, signed in pencil: “Kandinsky”; inscribed in pencil, lower left: “I/16”; lower right:
“50.- ”
on verso, lower left, in pencil: “36” [in a circle], “144_47”
Provenance:
(…)
By latest 2012: Cornelius Gurlitt, Munich/Salzburg
From 6 May 2014: Estate of Cornelius Gurlitt
Bibliographical reference:
Roethel, Hans Konrad. Kandinsky: Das graphische Werk. Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1970. [no.
190, ill.]
Friedel, Helmut, and Annegret Hober. Kandinsky: Das druckgrafische Werk: Complete Prints. In
collaboration with Melanie Horst. Cologne: Wienand, 2008. [no. 147]
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Primary sources:
Business records Hildebrand Gurlitt – possible references:
Sales ledger 1937–41 :
27 February 1941 [no. 127]
27 February 1941 [no. 108]
Sales ledger 1937–?:
27 February 1941 [no. 1405]
Register of Salzburg works, 2014, no. 144_47
Further sources consulted:
Grote, Ludwig. Wassily Kandinsky. Exh. cat., Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 14
March–11 April 1954.
Rebay, Hilla, ed. Kandinsky: The Kandinsky Memorial Exhibition. Exh. cat., Museum of NonObjective Paintings, New York, 15 March–May 1945.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, ed. Wassily Kandinsky on the Spiritual in Art. New York: selfpubl., 1946.
Grohmann, Will. Wassily Kandinsky: Leben und Werk. Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1958.
Kandinsky: Das druckgraphische Frühwerk aus dem Besitz der Gabriele-Münter-Stiftung der
Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus in München. Exh. cat., Künstlerhaus Graz, 4 September–4
October 1964.
Correspondence Hildebrand Gurlitt
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
Lost Art
Répertoire des Biens Spoliés
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
Note:
This plate was published by the artists’ association Deutsche Kunstgemeinschaft in an edition of
unknown size.
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