Leopold Bosel ca. 1924

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Oil on canvas 65 x 54 or 80 x 66 cm
Signature: not documented
Unknown private collection USA

Leopold Bosel 5.11.1886 Vienna to 1.1.1933 Vienna, lower middle-class travelling salesman and father of a "poor trillionaire".

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Cross-references

Ferdinand Brünner 1906 (husband), work lost.

Martha Brünner 1905 (daughter in lawr).

Exhibited

1906 Künstlerhaus Vienna (EL 50 1906/07 #2914)

1986 Academy Schillerplatz Vienna 1986, Viennese Society in Portrait, Catalog No. 13 (no ill.).

Literature

Georg Ransmayr, Der arme Trillionär – Aufstieg und Untergang des Inflationskönigs Sigmund Bosel, Styria, 2016, 319 pp.

Provenance

until after 1938 Sigmund Bosel (son).
Unknown.
After 1945 to 2016 Julie Bauer-Marks, née Bosel (grand-daughter), New York.
Her legal heirs,
unknown private collection, USA.