Saint George
- Kirkwood Hall
Zu den drei Mohren, Augsburg, Germany [1];
Possibly an unknown Bavarian collection [2];
With Dr. Walter Hugelshofer (1899-1987), Zürich, by October 4, 1958 [3];
Purchased from Hugelshofer by Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler, Munich, stock no. M_58-103, October 4, 1958-October 29, 1959 [4];
Purchased from Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.
NOTES:
[1] Zu den drei Mohren is an inn dating back to at least the 18th century. It was destroyed by bombing during World War II and reconstructed in 1956.
[2] According to dealer Julius Böhler, in a letter to Edward Maser, director, University of Kansas Museum of Art (today Spencer Museum of Art), April 1, 1959, this sculpture was probably sold from the Zu den drei Mohren around the beginning of the 20th century, sent to a castle in the Rhineland, and later made its way to a South German collection from which Böhler acquired them. A copy of the letter is in the NAMA curatorial file.
[3] Hugelshofer was a Swiss art historian based in Zürich.
[4] Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich/Photothek, Julius Böhler Archive, Munich Index, M_58-103.
Possibly Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) (Spring 1961): unpaginated, (repro.).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 194, 412, (repro.), as attributed to Christian Jorhan the Elder, as Saint George.
MacKenzie Mallon, “’A Man We Wished to Work With’: The Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,” in Cosima Dollansky, et al, eds., Quelle und Kontext: Objekte, Akteure, Prozesse der Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler (Munch: Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte, 2025): 237-9.
