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{{cite book}}: Check |url= value (help){{cite book}}: Check |url= value (help){{cite book}}: Check |url= value (help)The Leipzig publisher and collector Dr. Gustav Kirstein had purchased the work at the 1920 Berlin Secession. Kirstein committed suicide in 1934. Soon afterwards his firm was taken over by the Nazis. The family's art collection was handed over to the Leipzig art gallery C.G. Boerner and forty-four works were placed with the storage firm Erhardt Schneider. The proceeds of the sale went to a blocked account. Kirstein's daughters had already emigrated to the USA. In 1949 the Hanover collector Dr. Bernhard Sprengel purchased the Corinth from Lothar-Günter Buchheim in Berlin. In 1979 Sprengel donated his collection to the city of Hannover and the Sprengel Museum was founded as a result.
Gustav Kirstein, Leipzig (German); Clara Stein Kirstein (German); allocated in 1939 to the Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig(then Städtisches Museum Leipzig), inv. 7750in 2001; restituted in 2000 to the daughters of Gustav and Clara Kirstein; sale, Sotheby's, London, March 29, 2001, part of lot 62; sale, Sotheby's, London, June 14, 2005, part of lot 78 (bought in); sale, Dorotheum (Austrian), June 16, 2009, lot 717; sale, Dorotheum (Austrian), December 7, 2010, lot 59
Two other works in the museum are being sought by the heirs of Therese Clara Kirstein, a German Jew who committed suicide in 1939 after her escape to the United States was blocked. The heirs believe the works, a drawing by Adolph Menzel and a Liebermann study, were sold under duress shortly before her death or, more likely, confiscated and sold shortly after. "We want to have the provenance reports for those two works," said David Rowland, a New York lawyer representing one of the Kirstein heirs, "and we would like the foundation to apply the Washington Principles. We've been asking for that for a long time."
Kirstein war Vorsitzender des Leipziger Kunstvereins.
The works of art were collected by Dr Gustav Kirstein, an art lover, collector and patron of contemporary artists. Kirstein married Therese Clara Stein by whom he had two daughters, Marianne and Gabrielle. Dr Kirstein died in 1934. When Clara tried to leave Germany in 1939, she was detained by the Gestapo, who seized her passport, and she committed suicide. His two daughters were able to flee Germany and survived the war. The collection was dispersed through forced sales.
The works of art were collected by Dr Gustav Kirstein, an art lover, collector and patron of contemporary artists. Kirstein married Therese Clara Stein by whom he had two daughters, Marianne and Gabrielle. Dr Kirstein died in 1934. When Clara tried to leave Germany in 1939, she was detained by the Gestapo, who seized her passport, and she committed suicide. His two daughters were able to flee Germany and survived the war. The collection was dispersed through forced sales.