Josef Heise (20th Century)
Lot 322 PROPERTY FROM THE STIFTUNG FÜR KREBS UND SCHARLACHFORSCHUNG

Josef Heise (20th Century)

Liegender Buffalo

Closed24 June 2010

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

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.

Specialist note

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.