Raumbeispiel
199
Max Liebermann
Bildnis Karl von Bülow, 1916.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 17,700 Sold:
€ 18,060 / $ 21,310 (incl. surcharge)
199
Max Liebermann
Bildnis Karl von Bülow, 1916.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 17,700 Sold:
€ 18,060 / $ 21,310 (incl. surcharge)
Max Liebermann
1847 - 1935
Bildnis Karl von Bülow. 1916.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower left. 90 x 70 cm (35.4 x 27.5 in). [AW].
• Depiction of Prussian Field Marshal Karl Wilhelm Paul von Bülow (1846–1921).
• A total of five portraits were created between 1915 and 1916, for which the commander-in-chief in World War I sat for Liebermann in his studio on several occasions.
• Previously criticized for his lack of idealization in his earlier portraits, Liebermann was became one of his time's most popular portraitists by the 1920s.
• Similar works are in numerous museum collections, such as the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Staatliche Museen in Schwerin, and the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Carl Steinbart Collection, Berlin.
Kunsthandlung Paul Cassirer, Berlin (commissioned in 1918 from aforementioned collection, with a label on the reverse).
Galerie Heinemann, Munich (acquired in 1921, with fragments of a label bearing the Heinemann number 15661 on the reverse, until 1939, listed in the inventory of December 31, 1939).
Galerie Zinckgraf, Munich (1939- at least 1954, with a label on the reverse).
Private collection.
Private collection, Munich (ca. 1970, inherited from the above).
Amicable agreement between the above and the heirs of Galerie Heinemann (2025).
The work is free from restitution claims. The offer is made in amicable agreement with the heirs of Galerie Heinemann on the basis of a fair and just solution.
EXHIBITION: Probably: Max Liebermann. 70th Birthday, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1917, probably cat. no. 184a.
LITERATURE: Matthias Eberle, Max Liebermann. Catalogue raisonné of paintings and oil studies, vol. II: 1900-1935, Munich 1996, CR no. 1916/1 (with b/w illustration on p. 906, “Portrait of Field Marshal Karl Wilhelm Paul von Bülow (1846-1921), seated facing left”).
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Galerie Heinemann, Munich, Summer 1925, inventory catalog, Munich 1925, no. 130.
Galerie Heinemann, Munich, Alte und moderne Meister. Old and modern Masters, inventory catalog, Munich 1927, no number, with illustration.
Munich State Archives, WB Ia 2437, inventory of Galerie Heinemann, December 31, 1939.
Weltkunst, 1954, vol. XXIV, no. 8 (illustration on p. 37, Zinckgraf advertisement).
Ferdinand Stuttmann, Max J. Friedländer, Max Liebermann 1847-1935, Hanover/Hamburg/Bremen 1954 (with illustration in the advertisement section).
1847 - 1935
Bildnis Karl von Bülow. 1916.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower left. 90 x 70 cm (35.4 x 27.5 in). [AW].
• Depiction of Prussian Field Marshal Karl Wilhelm Paul von Bülow (1846–1921).
• A total of five portraits were created between 1915 and 1916, for which the commander-in-chief in World War I sat for Liebermann in his studio on several occasions.
• Previously criticized for his lack of idealization in his earlier portraits, Liebermann was became one of his time's most popular portraitists by the 1920s.
• Similar works are in numerous museum collections, such as the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Staatliche Museen in Schwerin, and the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Carl Steinbart Collection, Berlin.
Kunsthandlung Paul Cassirer, Berlin (commissioned in 1918 from aforementioned collection, with a label on the reverse).
Galerie Heinemann, Munich (acquired in 1921, with fragments of a label bearing the Heinemann number 15661 on the reverse, until 1939, listed in the inventory of December 31, 1939).
Galerie Zinckgraf, Munich (1939- at least 1954, with a label on the reverse).
Private collection.
Private collection, Munich (ca. 1970, inherited from the above).
Amicable agreement between the above and the heirs of Galerie Heinemann (2025).
The work is free from restitution claims. The offer is made in amicable agreement with the heirs of Galerie Heinemann on the basis of a fair and just solution.
EXHIBITION: Probably: Max Liebermann. 70th Birthday, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1917, probably cat. no. 184a.
LITERATURE: Matthias Eberle, Max Liebermann. Catalogue raisonné of paintings and oil studies, vol. II: 1900-1935, Munich 1996, CR no. 1916/1 (with b/w illustration on p. 906, “Portrait of Field Marshal Karl Wilhelm Paul von Bülow (1846-1921), seated facing left”).
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Galerie Heinemann, Munich, Summer 1925, inventory catalog, Munich 1925, no. 130.
Galerie Heinemann, Munich, Alte und moderne Meister. Old and modern Masters, inventory catalog, Munich 1927, no number, with illustration.
Munich State Archives, WB Ia 2437, inventory of Galerie Heinemann, December 31, 1939.
Weltkunst, 1954, vol. XXIV, no. 8 (illustration on p. 37, Zinckgraf advertisement).
Ferdinand Stuttmann, Max J. Friedländer, Max Liebermann 1847-1935, Hanover/Hamburg/Bremen 1954 (with illustration in the advertisement section).
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