Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Max Beckmann
Kaninchendiebe im Hermsdorfer Wald (Rabbit Thieves in the Hermsdorf Forest)
Session begins in
March 5, 02:30 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Bid
20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Max Beckmann
1884 - 1950
Kaninchendiebe im Hermsdorfer Wald (Rabbit Thieves in the Hermsdorf Forest)
signed Beckmann and dated 12 (lower right)
oil on canvas
32.2 by 48 cm. 12¾ by 18⅞ in.
framed: 49.3 by 65.2 cm. 19⅜ by 25⅝
Executed in 1912.
Heinrich Kirchhoff, Wiesbaden (acquired from the artist and at least until 1917)
Private Collection, Germany
Private Collection
Ketterer Kunst, Hamburg, 4 April 2008, lot 19
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Max Beckmann, 1913, no. 25
Baden-Baden, Kunsthalle, Deutsche Kunstausstellung, 1913, no. 520
Wiesbaden, Neues Museum, Privatsammlung Kirchhoff, 1917, no. 2, p. 9 (titled Hühnerdiebe)
Halle, Stifund Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Max Beckmann seiner Liebsten - Ein Doppeloporträt, 2005, no. 12, p. 225
Museum Wiesbaden, Der Garten der Avantgarde. Heinrich Kirchhoff: Ein Sammler von Jawlensky, Klee, Nolde, 2017-18, p. 137, illustrated in colour
Walter Mueller-Wulckow, Das Kunstblatt I, 1917, p. 108
Wilhelm Fraenger, Curt Glaser, et al., Max Beckmann, Munich, 1924, p. 76 (titled Hühnerdiebe and dated 1914)
Erhard Göpel and Barbara Göpel, Max Beckmann, Katalog der Gemälde, vol. 1, Bern, 1976, no. 161, p. 116, listed
Erhard Göpel and Barbara Göpel, Max Beckmann, Katalog der Gemälde, vol. 2, Bern, 1976, no. 161, pl. 60, illustrated
Bernhard Real and Walter Feilchenfeldt, Paul Cassirer Art Salon. The Exhibitions 1912-1914, Wädenswil, 2007
Anja Tiedemann, ed., Max Beckmann Catalogue Raisonné der Gemälde, https://max-beckmann.org/gemaelde/161-kaninchendiebe-im-hermsdorfer-wald, no. 161 (accessed 4 February 2026)
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