Emil Bührle Collection

Virgin Mary Enthroned with Angels

Upper Bavaria

c. 1490

Lime wood

119 cm

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Provenance

1Private Collection Braunau or Munich (?) AStEGB, Inventory Card Virgin and Child; AStEGB, Copy of a letter from Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich, to Dr. René Wehrli, Director of the Kunsthaus Zurich, 15 August 1953, asking for the transfer of CHF 15.000 to Bankhaus Neuvians, Reuschel & Co., Munich, in favour of Mr. Karl Büchs, Munich, for the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels, exported to Switzerland by Johannes Hinrichsen.

2Johannes Hinrichsen Alt-Aussee • by 1953 Inventory Card as above, n. (1), according to which the sculpture had already been with Hinrichsen when he was still established in Berlin.

3Emil Bührle Zurich • 18 August 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, with the intermediation of Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich, for CHF 50.000 + CHF 15.000 = CHF 65.000, AStEGB, Receipt, signed with monogram «N» by Dr. Fritz Nathan on 16 July 1953, and made out to Emil Bührle for CHF 64.000 for a painting by Bonnard, valued at CHF 14.000, and for the present sculpture; AStEGB, Copy of a letter from René Wehrli, Director of the Kunsthaus Zurich, to Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Bührle & Co., Oerlikon, 18 August 1953, forwarding the letter quoted above, n. (1), explaining that the sculpture had been imported by the Kunsthaus on behalf of Emil Bührle, and asking for payment of the amount of CHF 15.000 in the name of Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, with stamp authorizing payment, initialed by Bührle.

4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. P13.

AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

Exhibitions

1958Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Festschrift zu Ehren von Emil G. Bührle zur Eröffnung des Kunsthaus-Neubaus und Katalog der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle Kunsthaus Zurich • 1958 no. 39.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. P13.

2016Heiliger Besuch, Gotische Skulpturen der Sammlung E.G. Bührle und Madonnenbilder von Annelies Štrba Museum zu Allerheiligen • Schaffhausen • 2016 no. 2.

2019Verehrt, Geliebt, Vergessen, Maria zwischen den Konfessionen Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt (Augusteum) • Wittenberg • 2019 no. 27.

References

1923Hubert Wilm Die gotische Holzfigur, Ihr Wesen und ihre Technik  Leipzig • 1923 • p. 170, fig. 108.

1967Vera K. Ostoia «The Virgin and Child with Angels» in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (25) • 1967 • p. 364, 366, fig. 17, 19 (detail), 22 (detail).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 185 (ill.;21986).

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue  vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. S16 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.) • Munich • 2021 • no. 586 (ill.).