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About this artwork

…; collection Prof. Dr Otto Lanz (1865-1935), Amsterdam, 1914;{Swarzenski 1914, p. 88, image 1.} his widow, Anna Theresia Elisabeth Lanz - Willi (1870 - 1954), Amsterdam, 1935; from whom, CHF 2,000,000 and fl. 350,000, with xx other paintings, to Hans Posse (1879-1942), for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz, through the mediation of the dealer N. Katz,  1941;{Van Os 1978, p. 167.} war recuperation, SNK, 15 february 1946 (inv. no. NK 2323);{Provenance from 1935 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkar...

About the Artist

anonymous

In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...