Seated Youth (Q63854820)
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sculpture in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 54383)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Seated Youth |
sculpture in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 54383) |
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Seated Youth (English)
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Acquired 1917 from the artist by Sally Falk [1888-1962], Mannheim; gift August 1921 to the Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim;[1] (Buchholz Gallery, Berlin and New York);[2] sold 1939 to Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. [1909-1988], New York; sold May 1971 to (Dr. Claude Virsch, Kiel); sold 1974 to NGA.[1] The sculpture was on loan from Falk to the Kunsthalle Mannheim from 1917 until 1921, when the gift became official.[2] The sculpture was removed from the Städtische Kunsthalle on 8 July 1937 by the German government as "degenerate art," shipped to Munich, and possibly exhibited at the Degenerate Art show at the Haus de Kunst in Munich that year. It was acquired c. 1938 by Curt Valentin, of the Buchholz Gallery in New York, probably through the Buchholz Gallery in Berlin, which was one of the agents appointed by the German government's Commission for the Exploitation of Degenerate Art to sell objects purged from German museums. (English)