Provenienz
1Johannes Hinrichsen Altaussee • by 1953 until 1954 AStEGB, Entry Book II, 30 August 1953.
2Emil Bührle Zurich • 18 January 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 18.000 + CHF 4.000 = CHF 22.000, AStEGB, Receipt, signed by Johannes Hinrichsen and made out to Emil Bührle on 18 January 1954, confirming payment of CHF 47.000 for 4 sculptures, including the Lamentation, for a total of CHF 57.000, for which a down payment of CHF 10.000 had already been made on 27 October 1953, containing a list of the 4 sculptures. Also List established by Dr. Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle Collection] of sculptures purchased from Mr. Hinrichsen in fall 1953, dated 26 October 1953, with mention of a «Lamentation», imported on 10 October 1953 on behalf of the Kunsthaus Zurich, with a declared value of CHF 4.000; Letter from Emil Bührle to Johannes Hinrichsen, Alt-Aussee, 1 November 1954, confirming that the amount of CHF 4.000 had been paid by way of the Austrian Clearing.
3Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. P10.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Ausstellungen
2016Heiliger Besuch, Gotische Skulpturen der Sammlung E.G. Bührle und Madonnenbilder von Annelies Štrba Museum zu Allerheiligen • Schaffhausen • 2016 no. 5.
2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 12.
2019Verehrt, Geliebt, Vergessen, Maria zwischen den Konfessionen Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt (Augusteum) • Wittenberg • 2019 no. 31.
Literatur
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 183 (ill.;21986).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. S18 (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. 591 (ill.).