Herbstfeuer. Um 1880.
Oil over ink on board.
Lower right monogrammed. With old, partly fragmentarily preserved labels and inscribed "No 24 2 [illegible] Karlsruhe". 37 x 48 cm (14.5 x 18.8 in).

• Significant provenance: from Karoline Oetker (1867-1945), patron, philanthropist and wife of the company founder, Dr. August Oetker, as a gift for the company's general manager.
• Offered on the auction market for the first time.
• Characteristic Black Forest landscape with an extraordinary focus on the towering clouds .

PROVENANCE: Philipp Rühmer, München (until October 8, 1937).
Galerie Heinemann, Munich (October 8, 1937 acquired from the above -June 10, 1938, Heinemann no. 19590).
Otto Fischer, Bielefeld (acquired from the above on June 10, 1938).
Collection Karoline Oetker, Bielefeld (1867-1945).
(presumably acquired from the above in 1938)
Hermann Kandler (general manager at Oetker; obtained as present from above in 1938, verso with the label).
Private collection Northern Germany
Amicable agreement with the heirs of Galerie Heinemann (2021).
The work is free from restitution claims. It is offered in amicable agreement with the heirs after Franziska Heinemann on basis of a fair and just solution.

EXHIBITION: Hans Thoma Exhibition, Kunstverein Frankfurt, August 1 - September 23, 1906, cat. no. 49.

LITERATURE: Galerie Heinemann, Munich, file card on Heinemann no. 19590 (typescript, estate of Galerie Heinemann - Deutsches Kunstarchiv Nuremberg, file of sold pictures and inventory books, KV-T-177 and KL-2146, document-ID: 11399, 15122).