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Adam and Eve
Lost Art-ID
4302
Artist / Creator
Cranach, Lucas (der Ältere)
Birth
1472, Kronach
Death
1553.10.16
Place of activity
Wittenberg; Weimar; Wien?
Title
Adam and Eve
Dating
1527
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Panel (Beech) / painted
Height
82.00 cm
Width
53.00 cm
Inventory number
Ahv 336
Description
Signed with the snake as the artist's signet and the year "1527"; Adam and Eve embrace each other under the Tree of Knowledge and both hold on to the apple; on the left, a lion comes out of the bushes, on the right, in front of the spruce trees, a stag and a doe are resting; in the foreground, two partridges and a rabbit can be seen.
Provenance
1935 in the reorganized exhibition (SSFG, SM, Archive, File 3405); May 31, 1935 in the register of nationally valuable art monuments (ThHStAWeimar, C 1624); 1943 still present in the museum (catalog 1943, p. 243); January 1946 loss in Reinhardsbrunn; not in the Internet project 'Restitution'; ZDF video; shown at the exhibition 'Kriegsbedingt verbrachte Kulturgüter' in Moscow in spring 1995 in the Pushkin Museum.
Literature / Source
Inventar 1638/39, fol. 2r; Inventar 1644, fol.1r, Nr. 35; Inventar 1656, fol. 1r, Nr. 2; Inventar 1659, S. 1, Nr. 1; Inventar 1717, fol. 120r; Inventar 1764, fol. 87v, Nr. 2; SSFG, SM, Archiv, Akte 3405 (1935); ThHStAWeimar, Thüringisches Ministerium für Volksbildung und Justiz, Abteilung Volksbildung in Weimar über Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha’sche Stiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft, C 1624 (1935); Katalog 1943, Bl. 243; Verlustdokumentation Neumeister; Moskauer Verzeichnis 1995, Nr. 29 („Der Sündenfall“, 85 x 55,5 cm)
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Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein
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Germany
Phone
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Fax
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Contact
Dr. Tobias Pfeifer-Helke
Position
Stiftungsdirektor
Phone
+49 (0) 621-8234 100
Contact
Dr. Timo Trümper
Position
Kustode für Gemälde und Plastik
Phone
+49 (0) 3621 8234 553
Contact
Ronny Licht
Position
Provenienzforscher
Phone
+49 (0) 3621-82 34 329
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