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Bildnis Rudolf Wenzel Markowsky
Portrait of Rudolf Wenzel Markowsky
Kunstpalast - LVR-ZMB, Annette Hiller - ARTOTHEK

Portrait of Rudolf Wenzel Markowsky, 1840

ArtistFerdinand Georg Waldmüller, Wien 1783–1865
Oil on canvas
Dimensions without frame135 × 102,3 cm
Dimensions with frame152,5 × 116,5 × 9 cm
Status
on display, room 018.3
About the workThe precise depiction of materials and facial features made Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller one of the most successful Austrian portrait painters of the nineteenth century. This portrait shows the 21-year-old officer Rudolf Wenzel Markowsky. Beginning in the 1920s, the painting belonged to Irene Hellmann from Vienna, who, due to her Jewish descent, was persecuted, deported, and murdered by the National Socialists in 1944. In the summer of 1937, it was for sale in Salzburg. In 1939, the work was purchased from the Hans Bammann Gallery for the municipal art collection of Düsseldorf. The exact route it took to get there remains unclear. In 2024, an agreement was made with the heirs of Irene Hellmann in which the city of Düsseldorf was to restitute and then repurchase the painting.
AccessionAcquisition 1939, Restitution 2024, Repurchase 2024
Provenance1840 – mindestens 18.4.1904 Familienbesitz Markowsky, Österreich-Ungarn, Auftrag an den Künstler; 18.4.1904 Auktionshaus C. J. Wawra, Wien, eingeliefert von "Markofsky", wohl unverkauft; spätestens 1908 Fritz Redlich (1868-1921), Wien-Göding, erworben vermutlich aus dem Familienbesitz Markowsky; vermutlich vor 1921– o. D. Irene Hellmann, geb. Redlich, Wien, Schwester von Fritz Redlich, vermutlich erworben durch Schenkung von ihrem Bruder; Sommer 1937 Ausstellung in Salzburg, veranstaltet von der Neuen Galerie (Otto Kallir), Wien, dort zum Verkauf angeboten aus „Privatbesitz"; mindestens September – November 1938 Eduard Breisach, Wien; […]; spätestens 24.5.1939 – 17.6.1939 Galerie Hans Bammann, Düsseldorf; 17.6.1939 angekauft von der Galerie Bammann; Restitution per Ratsbeschluss der Stadt Düsseldorf v. 18.9.2024; Rückkauf durch die Stadt




Inventory numberM 4539
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