Lot 322: Josef Heise (20th Century)

Josef Heise (20th Century)
Liegender Buffalo
bronze
Length: 120 cm

F.C. Brader, 'Meisterwerke im Verborgenen. Die Sammlung Otto Krebs', in A. Pophanken & F. Billeter (eds.), Die Moderne und ihre Sammler. Französische Kunst in deutschen Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Passagen - Deutsches Forum zur Kunstgesichte, vol. III, Berlin, 2001, p. 309, note 74 (as by an unknown artist).

Otto Krebs, Mannheim and Gut Holzdorf near Weimar, by whom probably commissioned from the artist, and by descent.
Nationalised as part of the land reform under the Soviet Military Administration in Thuringia after 8 May 1945.
Transferred as state property by the Staatliche Kunstkommission (Ministerium des Innern) to the administration of the Nationalgalerie Berlin (East) in 1952 1988.
Property of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin from 1990 until restituted to the Stiftung für Krebs - und Scharlachforschung on 30 April 2008.

PROPERTY FROM THE STIFTUNG FÜR KREBS UND SCHARLACHFORSCHUNG
This lot is offered without reserve.
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
The present work was probably executed for the Holzdorfer Park of Dr Krebs's home, for which Josef Heise made several works in stone and bronze, some of them monumental in size.