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Wondrous Birds
Wondrous Birds

Wondrous Birds

Artist Hans Thoma German, 1839–1924
Date1892
MediumOil on cardboard
Dimensions36 3/8 x 29 1/8 in. (92.4 x 74 cm)
Frame: 42 1/2 x 35 1/4 x 2 in. (108 x 89.5 x 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineAnonymous Gift
Object number91.12
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCountess Luisa Erdödy, Novi Marof, Croatia, Austria-Hungary, by 1909; [Galerie Oscar Hermes, Munich, Germany, n.d. (per label)]; Max von Bleichert (d. 1947), Leipzig, Germany, n.d.; Sale, Berlin, Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, December 1931, lot 56, illus. pl. 28; Prof. and Mrs. Arthur Woldemar Meyer, Berlin; to son, Horst Meyer, 1933 [held in trust by adoptive parents, Prof. and Mrs. Kurt Heinrich Meyer, Geneva, Switzerland, 1933–1979]; Prof. and Mrs. Horst Meyer, Durham, NC, 1979; given to NCMA, 1991.
Published ReferencesHenry Thode, Thoma: Des Meisters Gemälde in 874 Abbildungen (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1909), illus. 355.

Gazette des Beaux-Arts no. 1478 (March 1992), 112.

Helena Feder, ed., “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art" (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) back cover (large detail).

Hannah VanderHart, "The Artist Declines to Explain the Compositions of Stork" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 202.Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions,” September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "PARTICIPATE: Activate the Senses," December 18, 2021-July 2, 2022.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–November 25, 2024. Object Rights Statement

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