Restituted Klimt to make $25m

October 25 2011

Pic: Sothebys

Kilmt's Litzlberg am Attersee (Litzlberg on the Attersee) is to be sold by Sothebys and is expected to fetch more than $25m after it was returned to the rightful heir George Jorisch earlier this year.

The landscape was looted by Nazis in 1941 from Jorisch's grandmother, along with the rest of her art collection after she was sent to Lodz Ghetto in Poland.

Quite in contrast to his tense portraits, these serene landscapes were painted for himself. This one in particular was painted in 1915 when Klimt was at Lake Attersee in the Salzkammergut area of Austria, and demonstrates a technique considered quite radical for the day.

Catalogue notes here.

By LH.

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