National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution The artist; his son Alois Scharl [b.1922]; (Robert H. Simmons, Washington, D.C.); purchased 1966 by NPG. Note: Marianne Blatt, executrix of Scharl estate, letter 8 April 1968, to Robert G. Stewart, NPG Previous Provenance note: Became part of his estate and in partial distribution in 1960 went to his son, Alois Scharl, in Germany; in 1964, the owner of Nierendorf Gallery in Berlin arranged a Scharl Exhibition; perhaps Robert Simmons purchased the painting at that time.