Property from the Heirs of Leo and🌞 Elise Smosc♋hewer
Hans Thoma
Contemplation
Lot Closed
July 13, 03:09 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Heirs of Leo and Elise Smoschewℱer
Hans Thoma
German
1839 - 1924
Contemplation
signed with monogram and dated 91 lower right
watercolour and ink on paper
Unframed: 27 by 36.8cm., 10½ by 14½in.
Framed: 43.2 by 53cm., 17 by 20¾in.
Leo Smoschewer, Breslau (1875-1938; industrialist Smoschewer co-owned the Gesellschaft für Feldbahn-Industrie Smoschewer & Co., a leading manufacturer of narrow-gauge steam locomotives, wagons, and traction engines; the company was aryanised in 1938 to become Feldbahnfabrik F. W. Budich)
Elise Smoschewer (widow of the above, until 1939)
Confiscated by the Nazi authorities in 1939
Art dealers Kunsthandel Wenzel, Breslau (by 1940)
Private collection, Germany
Restitu🅘ted to the heirs of Leo and Else Smoschewer in 2021