Hans Makart (Salzburg 1840-1884 Wien) (Salzburg 1840–1884 Vienna) The Death of Siegfried, the Giant Hagen Throwing Siegfried into a Gorge, signed Makart, adhesive label on the reverse: The Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Milton and Sally Avery Center for the Arts, The Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, oil on canvas, 84 x 65 cm, framed Hans Makart (Salzburg 1840-1884 Wien) Tod des Siegfried, der Riese Hagen stürzt Siegfried in die Schlucht, signiert Makart, rückseitig Etikett The Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Milton and Sally Avery Center for the Arts, The Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Öl auf Leinwand, 84 x 65 cm, gerahmt Provenance: Sale Alexander Posonyi, Vienna, 27 April 1874, lot 51; Sale Alexander Posonyi, Vienna, 9 November 1875, lot 91; Private Collection Vienna; Art trade, Wolfgang Gurlitt (according to exhibition catalogue, Residenzgalerie Salzburg), Munich c. 1954; Art trade, Vienna; Purchased by the present owner in 1969. Exhibited: Künstlerhaus, Vienna, November 1874, no. 13; Makart und seine Zeit, exhibition Residenz Galerie Salzburg, 3 July - 30 September 1954, no. 5; Nibelungenlied, exhibition in memory of the discovery of manuscript ‘A’ of the Nibelungenlied in 1779 Hohenems Palace, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, 14 September - 28 October 1979, p. 155 and XL, no. 281; Germanen und Awaren in Romantik, Historismus und Jugendstil, exhibition, Schloss Grafenegg, Schriften des Österreichischen Museums für angewandte Kunst 14, 1978, no. 20, ill. 1; Pre-Modern Art of Vienna, 1848-1898, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College Center, New York, 19 July - 12 September 1987, no. 113. Catalogued and illustrated in: Gerbert Frodl, Hans Makart. Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Salzburg 1974, plate 18, p. 299, no. 87; Gerbert Frodl, Hans Makart. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Vienna 2013, p. 87, no. 111.