“Fishermen by the Sea” is apparently not by Caspar David Friedrich

So far as the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) renowned paintings “Fischer am Meer” became by another artist created. The previous attribution is not tenable, said the head of the Weimar Classic Foundation museums, Annette Ludwig, to the Evangelical Press Service (epd). Let this be that Result of extensive provenance research and The material analysis for the exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich, Goethe and Romanticism in Weimar”, which will be shown from Friday. The picture will also be visible there.

Ludwig said that there had been doubts about the authorship of the great German romantic painter for a long time. The Work be In the 1950s it became part of the Classic Foundation came after it on End of the Second World War with works by Art collection of the Thuringian Nazi Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel (1894-1946) stored in a depot had been. The oil painting was purchased by a foundation in 1939, to give it to Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).. However, that never happened.

According to Ludwig, the Klassik Foundation files point to one Purchased from a “reputable Berlin private owner”.which was arranged through a gallery. However, it is noticeable, that the alleged The origin story already shows discrepancies in the purchase descriptionshe emphasized. That’s how it should be Bild after Death of a grandson of Caspar David Friedrich changed hands in 1916 have. However, the person in question only died in 1933. According to the Classic Foundation, it must The identity of the painter of “Fischer am Meer” is still to be determined.