Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Heinz Kisters" in English language version.
"A Sacra Conversazione" (around 1560) is coming from the collection of Gerlinda Kisters, the widow of Heinz Kisters, a German businessman who lived in Switzerland and died in 1977. He amassed hundreds of old master paintings and had at least two other Titians. He bought this one in 1956 from New York dealers who had purchased it at a Christie's auction in London two years earlier.
"A Sacra Conversazione" (around 1560) is coming from the collection of Gerlinda Kisters, the widow of Heinz Kisters, a German businessman who lived in Switzerland and died in 1977. He amassed hundreds of old master paintings and had at least two other Titians. He bought this one in 1956 from New York dealers who had purchased it at a Christie's auction in London two years earlier.
Wittgenstein Collection, Vienna. Kofer Collection, Vienna. With the Galerie St. Lucas, Vienna, 1937. Dr. Zdenko Bruck (1930–1979), Berne, Switzerland and Buenos Aires, by 1939; sale, Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brothers, New York City, June 5, 1940 lot 23. Sale, Sotheby's, London, March 11, 1964, lot 128. Heinz Kisters (1912–1977), Kreuzlingen, Switzerland; [sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, December 29–30, 1967 through January 2–3, 1968, lot 34 (unsold)]; sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, November 18–27, 1968, lot 34. [Sale, Sotheby's, London, December 9, 1992, lot 63 (unsold)] [Sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, November 17, 1993, lot 79 (unsold)]. Sale, Sotheby's, London, May 4, 1995, lot 187; Dr. Herbert Schaefer (1910–2011) and Monika Schaefer (née Winter, died 2019), Malaga, Spain, by 1995 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1995–2019); bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2019. This work appears on our "Artworks with Nazi-Era Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
