Paysage au germe de blé - Kunstsammlung NRW / Online-Sammlung

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Artist

Max Ernst

1891
Brühl, Deutschland

1976
Paris, Frankreich

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 130,8 x 162,6 x 3 cm
Frame: 144,0 x 176,0 x 7,0 cm

Signature

Bez. u.r.: "max ernst 1936"; verso: "max ernst 36 paysage au germe de blé"

Accession Number

0176

Catalogue Raisonné

Spies/Metken 2252

Acquisition year

1970

Provenance

The painting “Paysage au germe de blé” by Max Ernst presumably remained in the artist’s possession from its creation in 1936 until it was purchased by the Jeanne Bucher Gallery in Paris in 1938. Galerie Jeanne Bucher still offered the work for sale in 1939, but there is no evidence of its whereabouts after that. It was, however, verifiably part of Georges Hugnet’s collection from 1945 until at least 1947. At the beginning of the 1960s, the work can be located at Richard L. Feigen & Co. before Giovanni Agnelli, grandson of the founder of FIAT, gave it to Marlborough Fine Art for sale on consignment. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Paysage au germe de blé” through Marlborough from Agnelli for its holdings in 1970.

Between 2009 and 2012, several freelance provenance researchers examined the origins (provenance) of all works in the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen as part of a comprehensive research project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation. The focus was on all works created before 1945. For the painting “Paysage au germe de blé,” the ownership history during the National Socialist period (1933–1945) could not be fully clarified. For this reason, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen commissioned a more in-depth investigation into the history of this work in 2025.

If you have any questions or information regarding this work, please contact us:
Dr. Vivien Trommer
Head of Collection
trommer@kunstsammlung.de

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Exhibitions

Max Ernst - Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, 12.2.-20.4.1991, Tate Gallery, London
Max Ernst. Sculptures Maisons Paysages/Skulpturen Häuser Landschaften, 4.9.-28.11.1998, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris/Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
La Révolution surréaliste/Surrealismus 1919-1944. Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso ..., 19.7.-23.11.2002, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Max Ernst: A Retrospective, 3.4.-9.7.2005, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Meisterwerke der Museen der Welt in der Eremitage. Masterpieces from the World's Museums in the Hermitage. Three paintings by Max Ernst from the Art Collection of Northern Rhine-Westphalia (Düsseldorf), 24.11.2005-18.2.2006, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
The 1930s: The Making of "The New Man", 4.6.-6.9.2008, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Max Ernst. Im Garten der Nymphe Ancolie, 11.9.2007-26.1.2008, Museum Tinguely, Basel
Masterpieces of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen / Meisterwerke der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 17.10.2008-30.5.2009, Nagoya City Art Museum, Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe
Die Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen zu Gast in Gottorf. Picasso, Klee, Beckmann, Matisse und weitere Künstler in Schloß Gottorf, 18.7.-24.10.2009, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig
Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
Max Ernst - Retrospektive, 22.1.-7.9.2013, Albertina, Wien/Fondation Beyeler, Riehen
museum global. Mikrogeschichten einer ex-zentrischen Moderne/museum global. Microhistories of an Ex-centric Modernism, 9.11.2018-9.3.2019, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Grabbeplatz
Opening the Space. Fragen der Gegenwart an Werke der Sammlung / Works from the Collection in Light of Current Issues, 26.3.-28.8.2021, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (K20 Grabbeplatz), Henkel Galerie
Max Ernst und die Natur als Erfindung, 12.10.2022-21.1.2023, Kunstmuseum Bonn