The painting was immediately controversial when first exhibited in Cologne in 1923. It was acquired by the Dresden City Museum in 1928 but not exhibited there. The work was condemned by the Nazis, confiscated, and included in the exhibition of degenerate art ("Entartete Kunst") held in Munich in 1937. It was sold to an art dealer in early 1940, but its fate is not known. It is considered lost, and may have been destroyed in the war.