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In 1933 Otto Nirenstein changed his name to Kallir. He financially supported the Austrian chancellor, Kurt Schuschnigg, and was therefore of interest to the Gestapo after the Anschluss in 1938. He then applied for Swiss, Swedish, and American entry visas and left the Neue Galerie in the hands of his secretary, Vita Künstler, who kept the gallery alive. Otto Kallir took his family to Switzerland while he stayed in Paris and opened the Galerie St.Etienne because he had been unable to obtain a work permit. While in Paris, he also published the Österreichishe Post with Franz Werfel, Alma Mahler, Joseph Roth, and Martin Fuchs. In 1939, the Kallir family obtained an American visa and they moved to the US. Otto Kallir then established the Galerie St.Etienne, which became renowned for its German and Austrian expressionism, in New York City. (English)
40°45'48.319"N, 73°58'32.074"W
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private collection, New York, NY, 1959 [3]; Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY [4]; purchased by Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, February 1960.Notes:[1]. From Fritz Novotny and Johannes Dobai, "Gustav Klimt," Verlag Galerie Weltz, Salzburg, 1967, no. 164, p. 347, illustrated.[2]. Carl (Karl) Maria Georg Joseph (Josef) Urban, born in Vienna, Austria, was a noted stage and film designer and architect, who immigrated to the United States in 1912. See letter from Neue Galerie, New York, dated June 13, 2016, regarding Urban's ownership of the painting and its exhibition at the opening of Wiener Werkstätte of America, Inc. in June1922.[3]. Mrs. Joseph Urban (Mary Porter Beegle Urban.) Mrs. Urban is listed as a lender to the 1959 Klimt exhibition at Galerie St. Etienne in New York City, where the painting was included and illustrated in the catalogue. Information from Jane Kallir and Hildegard Bachert of Galerie St. Etienne (specifically e-mails reporting on conversations with them, dated May-June 2003) confirms the descent of the painting in the Urban family, specifically his widow, who sold it to the gallery after the 1959 Klimt exhibition there.[4]. Galerie St. Etienne (Otto Kallir) sent the painting to the museum on approval sometime in late 1959, likely in December 1959. (English) (English)
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Gift of the artist to Emilie Flöge, Vienna, Austria. [Neue Galerie, Vienna, Austria (by 1933); Galerie St. Etienne, Paris, France (by 1939); Galerie St. Etienne, New York (by 1950)]; Otto Kallir, gift; to Fogg Museum (1956-1966) Note: Otto Kallir owned the Neue Galerie, Vienna, and the Galerie St. Etienne, Paris and New York. (English)
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Ernest Ebenstein, Vienna [commissioned portrait from artist], 1908-September 22, 1926. Purchased by Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin, September 22, 1926. Purchased by Hugo Simon, Berlin (later Paris and Rio de Janeiro), February 1, 1927-c. 1954. Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, by 1954-June 1955. Galerie St. Etienne, New York, by October 1955 [Winnipeg 1955]. Purchased by Art Institute, December 1956. (English)
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Adolf Loos (1870-1933), Vienna. By 1915-16Otto Kallir-Nirenstein (founder of the Neue Galerie), Vienna. 1925-27 – 1939 [Possibly brought by Otto Kallir to New York, where he opened Gallery St. Etienne in 1939. Or sold in Europe before Kallir left, in 1938-39? The painting was not in Kallir’s collection any more by 1940.]Blanche Bonestell / Bonestell Gallery, New YorkCurt Valentin Gallery, New York. By 1949Henry (1895-1974) and Rose Pearlman, New York. [Likely acquired from Curt Valentin], by 1949 – 1953A. & E. Silberman Galleries, New York. [Purchased from Henry Pearlman in 1953]William S. Rubin, New York. Purchased from Silberman, by 1957. (In his collection in 1958)Mr. and Mrs. William Mazer, New York. By 1966 – until 1967The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Mazer, 1967 (English)
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