Lot 324: Josef Heise (20th Century)

Josef Heise (20th Century)
Grosse Stehende, or Junges Weib (After Wilhelm Lehmbruck)
sandstone
Height: 78 in. (198 cm.)
Executed circa 1927

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. 299 (as by Lehmbruck) & p. 309, note 74 (as by Heise).

Otto Krebs, Mannheim and Gut Holzdorf near Weimar, by circa 1927, 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 and on loan to the Armeemuseum, Dresden until 1988.
Property of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin from 1990 until restituted to the Stiftung für Krebs - und Scharlachforschung on 30 April 2008.

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Otto Krebs most probably commissioned this copy after the original model by Wilhelm Lehmbruck which had been acquired by the Kunsthalle in Mannheim in 1916 (Schubert no. 51.A.2; Kunsthalle, Mannheim).