Gewitter über dem Rosengarten bei Bozen. 1914.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower right. 53.5 x 74 cm (21 x 29.1 in). [JS].

• The mountain landscape is rendered on the canvas in a wonderful easy manner.
- The impasto and energetic mountain-cloud panorama in the background is particularly beautiful.
- During May 1914, after extensive travels in Egypt and Italy, Slevogt recovered in Bolzano, where he created watercolors and very few paintings of the snow-covered peaks of the Dolomites.
- Only one other painting from his trip to Italy has ever been offered on the international auction market (source: www.artprice.de).
- Together with Liebermann and Corinth, Slevogt is one of the outstanding representatives of German Impressionism.

This work's authenticity has kindly been confirmed orally by Bernhard Geil. We are grateful for his kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Collection Ernst Flersheim, Frankfurt a. M. (until May 11/13, 1937, Hugo Helbing).
Collection Franz Josef Kohl-Weigand, St. Ingbert (in 1937 acquired in aforementioned auction).
Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken (loan from Collection Kohl-Weigand).
Restituted to Ernst Flersheim heirs (2002).
Michael Seippel, Bad Homburg (acquired from aforemntioned in 2004).
Private collection Essen (since 2005).
No pending restitution claims. The work was restituted to the heirs after Ernst Flersheim in 2002.

EXHIBITION: Max Slevogt. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle, Zeichnungen zu seinem 60. Geburtstage, Preußische Akademie der Künste, Oktober-November 1928, Berlin 1928, cat. no. 111, no illu.
Max Slevogt zum 100. Geburtstag, Kunsthalle Basel / Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Hohenecken 1968, cat. no. 116, no illu. (with the label of the Kunsthalle Basel on the stretcher).
Max Slevogt zum 100. Geburstag, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 1968, cat. no. 116.
Aus der Sammlung Kohl-Weigand. Slevogt, Weisgerber, Purrmann, Saarland-Museum Saarbrücken July 9 – October 3, 1971, Saarbrücken 1971, cat. no. 17, no illu. (with the label on the stretcher).
Max Slevogt. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Saarland Museum Saarbrücken / Landesmuseum Mainz, Bonn 1992, cat. no. 125, wit illu.
Die Sammlung Kohl-Weigand aus dem Saarland Museum Saarbrücken, Museum Sankt Ingbert November 8, 1998 – February 28, 1999, Sankt Ingbert 1998, cat. no. 15, no illu.

LITERATURE: Hugo Helbing Frankfurt, Main, Sammlungen und Kunstwerke aus rheinischem und süddeutschen Besitz: Auction on May 11-13, 1937, lot 68, with illu. on plate 24.
Hans-Jürgen Imiela. Max Slevogt. Sammlung Franz Josef Kohl-Weigand. 1. Teil Gemälde Aquarelle Zeichnungen, St. Ingbert/Saar 1957, cat. no. 17G, S. 21.
Hans-Jürgen Imiela, Max Slevogt. Eine Monographie, Karlsruhe 1968, p. 412, ann. 29.