Focus on Gnome Watching Railway Train and discuss the Provenance.
The painting has belonged to Spitzweg's nephew-in-law Major Karl Loreck, Hugo Helbing in Munich, E. Ullmann in Vienna, H. Meyer in Munich (from October 1937) and H. E. Martini in Augsburg (from 1951). On 5 April 2008 it was sold at auction for 69,600 euro.Since the 1950s, it has also gone under the name Gnomen (English: Gnomes). This was caused by a mistake from Günther Rönnefahrt during his catalogization of Spitzweg's works. Rönnefahrt only had access to a black-and-white photograph of the painting and thought he saw a second gnome in the shadows of the cave.
gnome Gnome Hugo Helbing