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FransFrancken(?)
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HochzeitzuKanaa(MarriageatCana)
Oilonwood,53.5x71.5cm
onrecto,centreright,artist’smonogram(?)
onverso,upperleft,inscribedinwhitechalk:“B”oralternatively“W”;markingspartiallyconcealed
byverticalstretchers:“C°M°(...)”,“M”and“No.70(?)”.
onframeverso,atcentre,inscribedinbluepen:“Wie1951/6”;labelatuppercentre:“Franken,um
16.DM1200.-”
Provenance:
(...)
Bylatest1945:HildebrandGurlitt,Aschbach
1945–1950:CentralCollectingPointWiesbaden,no.WIE1951/6
From15December1950:HildebrandGurlitt,Dusseldorf
BydescenttoCorneliusGurlitt,Munich/Salzburg
From6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt
Primarysources:
NationalArchives,CollegePark,Maryland(NARA):
M1947,WiesbadenCentralCollectingPoint,Propertycardno.WIE1951/6
www.fold3.com/image/231981505/(2September2014)
Ardelia Hall Collection: Munich Administrative Records, Restitution Research Records,
Interrogation:StatementsofArtDealers
www.fold3.com/image/270046019,www.fold3.com/image/270046020/(2September2014)
SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV(Part2)/99
Furthersourcesconsulted:
k.k.MinisteriumfürCultusundUnterricht(WilhelmFreiherrvonWeckbecker),ed.Handbuchder
KunstpflegeinÖsterreich.Vienna:k.k.Schulbücher-Verlag,1902,p.291.
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VersteigerungderGemäldesammlungHofratProfessorAdamPolitzer(…).Auct.cat.,Auktionshaus
fürAltertümerGlückselig&Wärndorfer,Vienna,7–9December1920.
Lugt, Frits. Les Marques de Collections de Dessins et d’Estampes (Amsterdam: Vereenigde
Drukkerijen,1921;supplement,TheHague:MartinusNijhoff,1956),nos.2037,2741;supplement
no.2741.
Sammlung des in Wien verstorbenen Hofrats Professor Dr. A. Politzer und geringe Beiträge aus
anderemBesitz(=Katalog103).Auct.cat.,Amsler&Ruthardt,Berlin,18–20May1922.
SammlungHofratProfessorDr.Politzer.Auct.cat.,KunstantiquariatIgnazSchwarz,Vienna,12–14
June1922.
Nachlässe Hofrat Prof. Dr. Adam Politzer Wien, Hofrat Franz Breitfelder, Wien, nebst Beiträgen
aus Wiener Privatbesitz (= 92. Kunstauktion). Auct. cat., Albert Kende, Vienna, 23–25 February
1928.
VenteTableauxanciensetmodernes(…).Auct.cat.,HôtelDrouot,Paris,25June1943.
Härting, Ursula Alice. Studien zur Kabinettbildmalerei des Frans Franken II. 1581–1642: Ein
repräsentativerWerkkatalog.Hildesheim:GeorgOlms1983.
Papieristdochweiss?Exh.Cat.,JüdischesMuseumderStadtWien,30January–22March1998,
pp.84–87.
Lillie, Sophie. Klimt’s Women Collectors: The Pulitzer Sisters Szerena Lederer, Jenny Steiner and
Aranka Munk. Doctoral diss. [unpublished], Universität Wien, 2014. Chapter on the Politzer
collection,pp.127–139.
Peeters, Natasja. Frans Francken de Oude (ca. 1542–1616): Leven en werken van een Antwerps
historieschilder.Leuven:PeetersPub,2013.
BrandenburgerLandeshauptarchiv,Potsdam:
Rep.36AOFPBrandenburg(II),no.10224
BundesamtfürzentraleDienstundoffeneVermögensfragen,Berlin:
nos.74WGA1242/67;74WGA1243/67;A2070-Geb.B,no.35176
Bundesdenkmalamt,Vienna:
exportfiles1920s
Institutnationald’histoiredel’art,Paris:
Frenchsalecatalogues
Josephinum,Vienna:
PhotoArchive
JüdischesMuseumBerlin:
Convolute156,MaxFriedländerCollection
JüdischesMuseumWien:
AdamPolitzerPapers
KunsthistorischesMuseumWien
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LandesamtfürBürger-undOrdnungsangelegenheiten,Berlin:
nos.342840;342790
LandesarchivBerlin:
APrBrRep.042,no.8982;
ARep342,no.17.554;
BRep025-07,nos.74WGA1242/67,74WGA1244/67
ÖsterreichischeGalerieBelvedere
ÖsterreichischesStaatsarchiv,Vienna
ArchivderRepublik,06,FLDno.14.784
WienBibliothek:
ManuscriptsCollection,correspondenceAliceFriedländer
WienerStadt-undLandesarchiv:
BezirksgerichtInnereStadt,probatenos.AIII100/20,2A28/28
ZentralarchivStaatlicheMuseenzuBerlin
BusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlitt
CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt
CulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeude
Paume
Database“CentralCollectingPointMünchen”
Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”
GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogs
Lootedart.com
LostArt
RépertoiredesBiensSpoliés
RijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatie
VerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)
WittLibrary
Note:
In a sworn statement submitted to the Central Collecting Point Wiesbaden in 1945, Hildebrand
Gurlitt claimed that he had acquired this work from Miss Ursula Diederich of Hamburg in 1936.
Shortlythereafter,heretractedonthisstatement,identifyingtheworkastheerstwhileproperty
ofhislatefather,thearthistorianCorneliusGurlitt.
FransFranckenpaintednumerousvariantsofthemotifMarriageatCana(sometimeserroneously
referred to as Marriage at Canaan). The different versions of the painting fall into two basic
compositions:Onedepictsaweddingpartyseatedatatable,underacanopy,withJesusatleft,
performingthemiracleofturningwaterintowine.Thesecondvariantisaviewofthewedding
partywithJesusatright,blessingthewine.OwingtothefactthattheFranckenfamilycomprised
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three generations of painters who emulated each other’s style and shared popular motifs,
authorshipofindividualworksisoftendisputed.
ResearchshowedthatonevariantofMarriageatCanaattributedtoFransFranckenwasowned
by the renowned otologist Professor Adam Politzer of Vienna (1835 Alberti–1920 Vienna).
Following his death, this work passed to his daughter Alice Friedländer (1864 Vienna–1949 Los
Angeles),andPolitzer’sgrandson.Fromtheearly1920suntil1936,thepaintingwaskeptinthe
FriedländerresidenceinBerlin,firstinCharlottenburg,andinWilmersdorfthereafter.Following
the family’s flight from Nazi Germany, the Politzer variant was among Friedländer property
forciblysoldatpublicauctionin1943.
A wide range of archival records was consulted with the objective of identifying the Franz
Francken painting originating in the collection of the late Adam Politzer. Despite these diligent
efforts, no description of the size, medium or composition of the Politzer work could so far be
found.
InthecourseofitssystematicinvestigationofFrenchauctioncatalogues,theTaskforceidentified
onepaintingdescribedas“SchoolofFrancken”thatwasofferedforsaleatHôtelDrouot,Paris,on
25 June 1943. The title, medium and measurements of that work (lot 128) are very similar
(possiblyidentical)tothoseoftheworkfoundintheSchwabingArtTrove.Furtherresearchisongoing.
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