SKD's wartime loss turns up in Los Angeles

Private individual provided clue to whereabouts

Greiner’s ink drawing is listed in the Lost Art database under number 142843. A tip from a private individual had led two researchers from the Dresden Museum Association to the trail of the missing work. “They were not only able to unequivocally attribute it to the Kupferstich-Kabinett, but also to reconstruct the drawing’s journey from Dresden to Los Angeles,” the statement said.

Drawing was lost in the turmoil of World War II

Otto Greiner (1869–1916) was from Leipzig and was considered an important representative of Symbolism. The story of the lost drawing begins in 1892 in Rome, where Greiner was staying for an extended period at the time. Two years after its creation, it was purchased for the Kupferstich-Kabinett. After the drawing was lost in the turmoil of World War II, it briefly appeared on the German art market in 2001 before being acquired by a Los Angeles collector in New York in 2005. In 2016, it came to the Getty Research Institute as part of that collection, it was reported.