(Q17421944)

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Justin K. Thannhauser

German art dealer (1892-1976)

  • Justin Thannhauser

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An ambitious businessman, Justin opened a second gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1920 with his cousin Siegfried Rosengart (1894–1985). (English)
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PROVENANCE[Justin K. Thannhauser, Munich (before 1928)]; Dr. Fritz Rosenfeld, Stuttgart (by 1928); Dr. Blum (?); [Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, June 1-5, 1948, no. 2103 (ill., pl. 22), consigned by Dr. Blum]; [Martin Fabiani, Paris]; sold to [Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 1959]; subsequently transferred by sale or exchange to [Thannhauser, New York]; [Galerie Art Point (sold: Sotheby's, London, June 27, 1989, no. 16]; Private collection, Japan (aquired at the above sale, 1989); James Francis Trezza, New York; Private collection, Dallas County, Texas, December 2004; Private collection, 2009 (aquired privately from Texas collector with the benefit of a settlement with the Rosenfeld heirs); [Sotheby's, London, February 3, 2016, lot 24]; purchased by the MFAH, 2016. (English)
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Provenance Émile Bernard (1868-1941), Paris; with Ambroise Vollard, Paris; Amédeé Schuffenecker (1854–1936), Clamart, 1908; Fritz Meyer-Fierz, Zürich, by 1924; sale, Meyer-Fierz, Frederich Muller and Company, Amsterdam, July 13, 1926, no. 10. With Galerien Thannhauser, Munich and Lucerne (later Berlin and Paris), by 1927 to c. 1937 [1]. Knoedler & Co., New York, joint ownership (half share) with Mme Paul Guillaume (Domenica Guillaume), June 21, 1937 to 1946 [2]; sold to William M. Elkins (1882-1947), Philadelphia, May 1946 [3]; his wife Elizabeth "Lisa" C. Norris Elkins (1898-1950), Philadelphia; bequest to PMA, 1950.1. Exhibited at Thannhauser Galleries, Berlin, "Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin," January 9-February 1927. Published in de la Faille, 1928 (no. 490) as Thannhauser Gallery, Munich. The Thannhausers closed their original Munich gallery in 1928; they closed the Berlin branch in 1937 and moved to Paris.2. Getty Research Institute, Knoedler Book 8, stock no. A1882, p. 173. De la Faille, Vincent van Gogh, 1939, no. 520, lists the current owner as Reid & Lefevre Gallery, London on p. 369, although the painting is still listed under Thannhauser Gallery, Paris, in the "Index of Collections" (p. 559). (English)
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Justin K Thannhauser (7 May 1892 - 26 Dec 1976)
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