Mrs Kurt Riezler (née Käthe Liebermann, daughter of Max Liebermann) was previously mis-identified as Liezler
Why does it matter? Because her family was persecuted by the Nazis and she herself was a refugee.
EDOUARD MANET
The Melon, c. 1880
Not on View
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 46.67 × 56.52 cm (18 3/8 × 22 1/4 in.)
framed: 71.12 × 80.01 × 6.35 cm (28 × 31 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Accession Number
2014.18.29
Artists / Makers
Edouard Manet (artist) French, 1832 - 1883
Image Use
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PROVENANCE
Sold by the artist to M. Pertuiset, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 June 1888, no. 3); bought by Isidore Bloch or Hermann Paechter, Berlin. Max Liebermann [1847-1935], Berlin, before 1925; his daughter, Mrs. Kurt Riezler [née Käthe Liebermann, 1885-1952], Berlin and later New York.[1] (Wildenstein and Co., New York); sold 1959 to Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].
ASSOCIATED NAMES
Bloch, IsidoreLiebermann, Max
Mellon, Paul
Paechter, Hermann
Riezler, Kurt Mrs.
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.
Riezler in other provenances
Title: Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829–1906) at Bellevue
Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)
Date: 1880
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 31 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. (80.6 x 60.3 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1997, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
Accession Number: 1997.391.4
Provenance
Title: Three Male Heads
Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
Date: 19th century
Medium: Pen and black ink, red and brown wash, over black chalk; on beige paper, lined
Dimensions: Sheet: 4 3/16 x 8 9/16 in. (10.7 x 21.7cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Bequest of Gregoire Tarnopol, 1979, and Gift of Alexander Tarnopol, 1980
Accession Number: 1980.21.10
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/334358
Provenance
Title: The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene)
Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence)
Date: ca. 1875
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 21 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. (55.2 x 81.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Heather Daniels and Katharine Whild, and Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, Gift of Joanne Toor Cummings, by exchange, Wolfe Fund, and Ellen Lichtenstein and Joanne Toor Cummings Bequests, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rodgers, and Wolfe Fund, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 2001
Accession Number: 2001.473
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438136
Provenance
Who was Mrs Riezler?
"With the assumption of power by the National Socialists, however, the acceptance of the Jew Liebermann ended. He lost his position as president of the Berlin Academy of Arts, which he had held since 1920. He resigned from his position voluntarily, but strongly influenced by the external influences of a world in which there seemed to be no more room for him. He died in 1935. Numerous Jewish companions gave him their last respects when he was buried in the Jewish Cemetery Schönhauser Allee, city officials, the press or members of the Berlin Academy were missing however.
His widow Martha continued living with the art collections in Berlin. In 1943, she commited – the deportation to the Theresienstadt concentration camp was imminent – suicide. The daughter Katharina Riezler had emigrated to the USA already in 1938. The Liebermann house at the Brandenburg Gate had been seriously damaged in the course of the war. Some works of art could be saved by the Swedish artist Anders Zorn and his wife Emma by bringing them to Sweden. Most of the other works of art though were untraceable after the war. What happened to the art works in the collection Liebermann?
After the war, Katherina began to search for the art collection. Since the art of the Berlin public collections mostly found their way from a war-related outsourcing in a salt mine into the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point in present-day National Museum, she asked here for her heritage. In her request for restitution of 1947 Katharina Riezler indicates that the Nazis have sold he entire contents of their apartment, meanwhile Graf Spee-Str. 23, Berlin, directly after Martha Liebermann’s death. At least some of these works of art Katharina namend in a list attached, including five of her father’s works, a drawing by Rembrandt, a larger number of prints by Daumier, as well as paintings by Corot, Daubigny, Degas, Monet and some arts and crafts.
From Lostart: Jüdische Sammler und Kunsthändler (Opfer nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung und Enteignung) Liebermann, Max
(Google Translate from the German) In 1933 the highly esteemed painter and honorary president of the Prussian Academy of the Arts Max Liebermann became a non-person. In view of the fact that the Akademie der Künste was brought into line, Liebermann resigned his honorary presidency in order to forestall the threatened dismissal. After his death in 1935, his widow stayed in Berlin. Martha Liebermann was subsequently subjected to massive harassment by the National Socialist regime.... After receiving the order to be deported to Theresienstadt on March 5, 1943, she took an overdose of sleeping pills and died on March 10, 1943. On October 18, 1941, she wrote: “I am 84 years old and until a few months ago never thought of emigrating. But the situation has now become unbearable for me and just as today's conditions were unimaginable, it is also impossible to suspect what can still happen. Every morning I thank fate that my husband did not live to see this time and that my daughter, husband and child, were able to leave this country ... ”.
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