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Karl Haberstock

German, 1878 - 1956

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Afternoon sunlight pours over a town crowded along the banks of a serene, glass-green river that runs through the middle of this horizontal painting. Several buildings cluster to our left on the riverbank close to us. A gateway there opens onto a bridge or walkway that extends back and behind the buildings. Tiny in scale, people stand, sit, or ride singly or in small groups on the dirt road that spans the lower edge of the composition. One man sits on a bench in a fenced-in, grassy enclosure at the lower right, and another man there wears monk’s robes and holds a basket. The land must dip down steeply between the dirt road and riverbank, for a few rooftops nestled in there have chimneys at road level. Houses, churches, and grand structures line the far riverbank and fill in the town beyond. Many of the buildings are white or tan with dark red roofs, though others are brown or gray. Trees and an open green space are tucked among the structures. A pale blue sky with wispy, petal-pink and light tan clouds fills the top half of the composition.
Bernardo Bellotto, Italian 18th Century, View of Munich, c. 1761, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.64

View of Munich

Bernardo Bellotto, Italian 18th Century · c. 1761 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1961.9.64

Alessandro Algardi, A Flagellator of Christ, c. 1630s, silver, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.124.1

A Flagellator of Christ

Alessandro Algardi · c. 1630s · silver ·  Accession ID  1991.124.1

Bibliography

1946

  • Rousseau, Theodore, Jr. Detailed Interrogation Report No. 13. Subject : Karl Haberstock. 1 May 1946 [National Archives and Record Administration; copy National Gallery of Art Archives, S. Lane Faison papers, box 2]

2000

  • Petropoulos, Jonathan. The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany. New York, 2000:74-100