What other artworks passed through Silberman Galleries?

The Times' David Sanderson just published "Painting from Hitler’s love nest hangs in the National Gallery" reminding us that Silberman Galleries provided false information to the UK National Gallery of Art about the 16th-century painting Cupid Complaining to Venus.  

Its provenance has long been known to have a big Nazi era gap, and was even published in the National Gallery's Whereabouts of paintings 1933-1945 and in the Collection Trust's Spoliation Reports. 

The Times article includes a photo of the Cranach "hanging in the living room of Hitler’s private Munich apartment, where he often entertained his mistress, Eva Braun".

All this poses two obvious questions. 

1) How is the UK National Gallery of Art advancing in its research into the many many artworks with Nazi-era gaps?

and

2) What other artworks passed through E. & A. Silberman Galleries?

(see also: "BOSTON MFA SETTLES VAN DER NEER CASE" http://web.archive.org/web/20151016233930/http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/boston-mfa-settles-van-der-neer-case.asp 

and Double Comma Names )

Below are a few examples of :

Selected Christie's catalogue provenance references mentioning E. & A. Silberman Galleries

Open Access! PROVENANCE RESEARCH AND RESTITUTION IN THE AUSTRIAN FEDERAL COLLECTIONS

Bravo to Austria's Commission for Provenance Research for Open Access Digital Publications

Austria's Commission for Provenance Research makes its publications available as open access digital publications

For each publication chapters are published in separate PDFs and available for download with an "Open Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0." licence.

see: https://provenienzforschung.gv.at/en/commission-for-provenance-research/commission-publication-series/

Since 09/2021, all volumes of the series are also available as open access publications.
Links to individual contributions can be found below.

Lost Art Search Requests for artworks currently in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC

The heirs of persecuted Jewish collectors Armand Dorville, Max and Martha Leibermann, Adele Paechter and the Brombergs have all filed Search Requests for Lost Art on the German Lost Art Foundation website for artworks which currently are listed in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C..

Below are five artworks with the provenances as published on Lost Art and the provenance published on the NGA website from the same day.

One notes, in particular, the ABSENCE on the NGA website of any mention of DORVILLE, LIEBERMANN or PAECHTER in the NGA version. 

This raises questions about the quality of the provenance research.

1. Saint Mary Cleophas and Her Family

NGA 1961.9.88 Saint Mary Cleophas and Her Family  Lost Art 526719 

PROVENANCE published on Lost Art (April 18, 2026): "möglich Sammlung O. Streber, München; Haskard Bank, Florenz und Charles Fairfax Murray als Agent, 1900; Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, 1900; Sammlung Rodolphe Kann (gest. 1905), Paris, Mai 1900 -; Kunsthandel Duveen Brothers, Paris, August 1907; Sammlung Martin Bromberg (und Erben), Hamburg, August 1907 - 1935 (nach) [...]; Sammlung Dr. Max Emden, Schweiz (?); Kunsthandel F. Kleinberger (Allan Loebl), Paris vor 20.12.1938; Kunsthandel Wildenstein & Co., Paris 1939; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, Februar 1954 - 1956; National Gallery of Art, Washington, als Leihgabe, 1956 - 1961; National Gallery of Art, Washington, als Geschenk, 1961"

Lost Art Search request for persecuted Jewish collectors: Dr. Henry und Hertha Bromberg , published March 20, 2015

PROVENANCE published on NGA museum website (April 18, 2026)

Possibly O. Streber, Munich.[1] (Haskard Bank, Florence, and Charles Fairfax Murray, as agent, by 1900);[2] sold 1900 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London); sold May 1900 to Rodolphe Kann [d. 1905], Paris;[3] by descent to executors of the Kann estate: Edouard Kann, Paris; Betty Schnaffer [née Kann], Frankfurt; Martin and Eleanore [née Kann] Bromberg, Hamburg; Jacob and Mathilde [née Kann] Emden, Hamburg, and Edmond and Madeline [née Kann] Bickard See, Paris.[4] (Duveen Brothers, Paris, August 1907);[5] purchased August 1907 by members of the Kann family, possibly Martin and Eleanore Bromberg, Hamburg.[6] Probably Dr. Max Emden, Switzerland, by 1939.[7] (Wildenstein & Co., New York, by 1939);[8] purchased February 1954 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[9] Denver Art Museum, Colorado, 1954-1958; at the NGA from February, 1958;[10] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Unverified, cited by Alfred Stange, Kritisches Verzeichnis der deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer. 3 vols. (Munich, 1970), 2:204, no. 899.

[2] Letter of 24 January 1969, from Richard Kingzett, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, to Colin Eisler, in NGA curatorial files.

[3] Kingzett letter of 24 January 1969 cited above.

[4] Duveen stockbook in archives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; see letter of 23 February 1987 from Guy Bauman, Department of European Paintings to John Hand in NGA curatorial files.

[5] Guy Bauman letter cited above and Edward Fowles, Memories of Duveen Brothers (London, 1976), 36-43.

[6] Bauman letter, cited in note 4, notes that in both the stockbook and the salesbook, the paintings are listed only as having been sold to "Kann relations."

[7] Wildenstein & Co. brochure in NGA Kress files lists Bromberg and Dr. Emden as previous owners.

[8] Letter of 14 September 1988 from Ay-Whang Hsia, Wildenstein & Co., to John Hand, in NGA curatorial files.

[9] The bill of sale (copy in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1873) is dated February 10, 1954, and was for a total of fourteen paintings; payments by the Foundation continued to March 1957.

[10] William E. Suida, Paintings and Sculpture of the Samuel H. Kress Collection. (Denver, 1954), 64, no. 28; letter of 10 November 1987 to John Hand from Louise H. Kliopov, Denver Art Museum, in NGA curatorial files. Eisler 1977, 26, reversed the exhibition dates for this and the Saint Mary Salome and Her Family also by Strigel.

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46187-saint-mary-cleophas-and-her-family

Safehaven names

Part 1: raw texts

 url: https://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/finding-aid/military/rg-226-3g.html

Military Agency Records RG 226

Interallied and Interservice Military Agencies Records

Records of the Office of Strategic Services (RG 226) 

Records of the Research and Analysis Branch

DATASET: Decisions and reports by Austrian Commission for Provenance Research and Art Restitution Advisory Board

Austria's  Commission for Provenance Research and Art Restitution Advisory Board publishes decisions and reports regarding claims and research. 

This dataset includes 482 publications with the 

• name of the art collector, 
• the Austrian museum, 
• the date and 
• url of the report,
• entire text of the report in the original language (German or English)
• translation by Google Translate into English.

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