Kriegskinder (War Children), also known as Lebensfreude (Zest for Life) and as Kindergruppe
oil on canvas
1915 (Greiner's last completed oil painting)
78 x 105 cm
monogrammed and dated lower left: O.G. 1915
Provenance:
Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich, 1916
Paul von Bleichert, Leipzig, from 1917
Paul von Bleichert (1877-1938) was a German industrialist; he and his brother Max von Bleichert were among the most important art collectors in Germany in the first few decades of the 20th century.
Exhibition History:
Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, 1916
"Ausstellung zum Gedächtnis von Otto Greiner [Exhibition in Memory of Otto Greiner]," Leipziger Kunstverein, Leipzig, February-March, 1917
Publication History:
Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser München (München, 1916), 129 (entitled Kindergruppe)
Leipziger Kunstverein, Ausstellung zum Gedächtnis von Otto Greiner (Leipzig: Leipziger Kunstverein, 1917), catalogue number 136a (not illustrated).