May 19, 2024

Holocaust victims and refugees in art provenances

Museums and auction houses rarely mention that a name in a provenance of an artwork corresponds to a person who was robbed and murdered by the Nazis or a Jewish refugee fleeing to escape the Holocaust.

This Wikidata Sparql query displays a few of the art collector whose names are absolutely to be considered red flags in provenances because they either died in the Holocaust or were forced to flee to survive.

Wikidata query run 18 May 2024: Short link: https://w.wiki/A7pr

Table: Art Collectors and Dealers who died in the Holocaust or were forced to flee

Wikidata urlNameDescriptionBornDiedInfo
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114495002David CenderPolish Jewish violin maker, art collector and Holocaust survivor (died 1966 in France)FranceHolocaust survivor
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125246074Gilbert LevyFrench Jewish art collector of porcelain murdered at Auschwitz (1884-1944)Holocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q115959327Käthe KellnerAustrian Jewish art collector and Holocaust victim (1884-1942)Holocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q119442687Paul SchülerGerman Jewish art collector persecuted by the Nazis (1876 - estim. 1942)BochumRiga GhettoHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q78425495Viktor Oppenheimerholocaust victim, b. 1877-05-02RousínovOświęcimHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1896897Marianne SchmidlAustrian ethnologist murdered in the Holocaust by the Nazis because of her Jewish origins (1890-1942)
Berchtesgaden
Holocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q95479467Emil Freundart collector and holocaust victim, b. 1886-04-29ŁódźHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q87857Fritz GrünbaumAustrian cabaret artist, art collector and Holocaust victim (1880–1941)BrnoDachau concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2546745Walter WestfeldGerman Jewish art collector and Holocaust victimHerfordAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106672151Richard LányiAustrian Jewish publisher and art collector murdered in the Holocaust (1884-1942)ViennaAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125938280Arnold KolbSkalicaMaly TrostenetsHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28192906Emanuel KohnGerman Jewish painter and art dealer (1863-1942), murdered in the HolocaustMunichTheresienstadt concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6202160Jindřich WaldesCzech entrepreneur and art collector murdered in Holocaust (1878-1941)PragueHavanaHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q63110939Wilhelm KurtzAustrian art dealer and Boxer (1897-1942), murdered in the HolocaustLinzAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q94915454Siegfried Blumenthalholocaust victim, b. 1886-02-27OrlováTheresienstadt concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106814729Armin ReichmannViennaMaly TrostenetsHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27518263Gustav RüdenbergGerman Jewish bookseller and art collector , holocaust victim (1868-1941)VlothoRiga GhettoHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q110407277Leon SeyffersBelgian art dealer (1885-about 1944 Auschwitz)AnderlechtAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6202160Jindřich WaldesCzech entrepreneur and art collector murdered in Holocaust (1878-1941)NemyšlHavanaHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104544920Adele FischelViennese Holocaust victim, and art collector b. 1875-05-09 - 1943ViennaTheresienstadt concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1818485Leo BendelAustrian Jewish entrepreneur and art collectorStrzyżówBuchenwald concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q78425495Viktor Oppenheimerholocaust victim, b. 1877-05-02RousínovWarsawHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104701531Alfred HardingViennese Jewish art dealer, murdered in Holocaust holocaust victim, b. 1900-03-13ViennaLublin-Majdanek concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14777672Ludwig PollakJewish Czech-Austrian classical archaeologist and art collector (1868-1943) murdered in the HolocaustPragueOświęcimHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1818485Leo BendelAustrian Jewish entrepreneur and art collectorStrzyżówBuchenwald concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q124217551Sam Bernhard LevieDutch Jewish art collector murdered in the Holocaust (1887-1943)GroningenSobibór Extermination CampHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q105655393Moritz RosenthalGerman Jewish art collector, holocaust victim, b. 1883-04-16Holocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14777672Ludwig PollakJewish Czech-Austrian classical archaeologist and art collector (1868-1943) murdered in the HolocaustPragueAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1361426Ludwig KatzenellenbogenJewish industrialist, refugee, Holocaust victim, husband of Tilla DurieuxKrotoszynSachsenhausen concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q105354608Felix GanzGerman Jewish businessman, art collector, holocaust victim, b. 1869-09-27MainzAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q777344Erich ŠlomovićYugoslav art collector, Jewish, arrested and killed in a concentration camp in 1943.ĐakovoBelgradeHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q63110939Wilhelm KurtzAustrian art dealer and Boxer (1897-1942), murdered in the HolocaustLinzAuschwitz II-Birkenau concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106238931Irene HellmannAustrian patron of the arts killed at Auschwitz (1882-1944)HodonínAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q115477727Ilse HesselbergerGerman Jewish art collector murdered by Nazis (1888 - 1941)FrankfurtMilbertshofen concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15995945Wilhelm MautnerJewish Austrian-German economist and art collector (1889-1944), deported and died in AuschwitzViennaAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q110300962Paul StiasnyAustrian Jewish businessman and art collector 1894-deported to Theresienstadt, declared dead in 1947ViennaHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q63074029Arthur Feldmannart collector and lawyer (1877-1941), arrested and tortured by the GestapoVyškovGerman-occupied EuropeHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q98709425Ernst EggerAustrian entrepreneur, art collector and Holocaust victim (1886-1944)ViennaTheresienstadt concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q117251316Hedwig Zach/Jadwiga ZakFrench-Polish Jewish art dealer and gallery owner (deported to Auschwitz)NasielskAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q105471508Gisela PollakAustrian art collectorViennaTheresienstadt concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5503811Friedrich GutmannDutch Jewish art collector, murdered in the Holocaust (1886-1944)BerlinTheresienstadt Small FortressHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55006961Heinrich RiegerAustrian art collector deported because Jewish who died in Theresienstadt camp (1868-1942)SereďTheresienstadt concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1598924Heinrich StahlGerman Jewish art collector (1868-1942), murdered in the HolocaustBerlinTheresienstadt concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q94760892Robert GraetzGerman Jewish art collector deported and killed by Nazis (1875-1945)BerlinHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q762753August Liebmann MayerGerman Jewish art historian (1885-1944), murdered in the HolocaustGriesheimAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28150056Karl MayländerAustrian businessman, art collector and Holocaust victimHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15995945Wilhelm MautnerJewish Austrian-German economist and art collector (1889-1944), deported and died in AuschwitzViennaextermination campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q113629757Nelly SharffGerman Jewish art collector and Holocaust victim (1887-1941)MunichKaunasHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q105045472Josef MorgensternJewish art collector murdered in Auschwitz (1886-194?)Slatinka nad BebravouAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15444706Karl Alexander NeumeyerGerman jurist persecuted by Nazis because Jewish, suicide with wife July 17, 1941MunichMunichHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q105640640Leo Zeckendorfholocaust victim, b. 1884-04-20PragueHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125723847Dane ReichsmannCroatian department store owner, art collector and Holocaust victim (1876-1942)ZagrebAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104249074Felix BenjaminGerman Jewish businessman and art collector, killed in Holocaust, (b. 1871-01-26 - d. 1943 Theresienstadt concentration camp)Theresienstadt concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q94929996Ernst PollackAustrian Jewish art collector murdered in the Holocaust , b. 1865-02-04ViennaTheresienstadt concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1913457Max SilberbergGerman Jewish entrepreneur and art collector (1878-1942) died Theresienstadt concentration campNeuruppinhttp://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/0155c0790700955cecbf167d5a4560b0Holocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104700598Paul HartogGerman Jewish banker and art collector murdered in the Holocaust (1868-03-20 - 1943)GochTheresienstadt concentration campHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q105986510Rosa OppenheimerGerman Jewish art dealer deported via Drancy, died at Auschwitz (1887-1943)BerlinAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1117554Béatrice Reinach de CamondoFrench Jewish woman of the Camondo family murdered at Auschwitz16th arrondissement of ParisAuschwitzHolocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q121070817Fritz NeubergerGerman Jewish textile manufacturer and art collector murdered in the Holocaust (1877–1943)Holocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104673047Fritz Goldschmidtholocaust victim, b. 1871-12-19Holocaust victim
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q74128Alfred FlechtheimGerman Jewish art dealer, persecuted by Nazis (1878-1937)MünsterLondonrefugee
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43462194Felicia Lachmann-MosseGerman Jewish art collector and refugee from the publisher Mosse family (1888-1972)Colognerefugee
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65176Alfred PringsheimGerman Jewish mathematician, art collector, patron of the arts and refugee from Nazis (1850-1941)OławaZürichrefugee
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q112450Curt GlaserGerman Jewish art historian and art collector persecuted by Nazis, refugee (1879-1943)LeipzigLake Placidrefugee
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q98283Paul WestheimGerman Jewish refugee art critic, art collector, author, publisher (1886-1963)EschwegeBerlinrefugee
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59213853Max KaganovitchLithuanian born, French Jewish sculptor and art collector, refugee from Nazis (1891-1978)Neuilly-sur-Seine
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125111678Arthur MenkeGerman Jewish businessman and art collector (1877- 1944)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q94953574Armand DorvilleFrench art collector and lawyer whose art collection was plundered during Nazi occupation (1875–1941)9th arrondissement of ParisCubjac
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q115857351Arthur StemmerAustrian Jewish art collector and refugee (1880-1954)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2272284Serena LedererAustrian Jewish art collector, refugee from Nazis (1867-1943)PestBudapest
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1608754Herbert M. GutmannGerman Jewish banker and art collector (1879-1942)DresdenPaignton
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15058864Marguerite Stern (born Fould)French painter and art collector (1886-1956)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q19754010Lili Frohlich-BumeAustrian-British art historian, art dealer and art critic (1886–1981)Vienna
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q94764147Fritz GlaserGerman Jewish lawyer and art collector (1876–1956)ZittauDresden
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q113739910Giacomo TedescoFrench art dealer (1879-1950)Paris
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q124174461Gustav MayerGerman Jewish businessman and art collector (1856-1940)BöchingenBournemouth
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15550099Hugo HelbingGerman art dealer and auctioneer, dispossessed and murdered by Nazis (1863-1938)Munich
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q324935Ferenc HatvanyHungarian painter and art collector (1881-1958)BudapestLausanne
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q120028958Karl MathiasonGerman Jewish businessman and art collector ((1899-1944)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q113530857Emanuel Vita IsraelDutch pharmacist and art collector, Jewish, suicide in 1940 (1873-1940)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q95476275Oskar FedererJewish industrialist and art collector plundered by Nazis (1884-1968)Jičín
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q67145714Gustaaf HamburgerDutch Jewish banker and art collector (1887-1977)UtrechtGeneva
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q124613229Fritz Berthold RosenbergGerman Jewish art dealer (1871-1941)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q121089974Dr. Max FischerGerman Jewish journalist, art collector and refugee (1893-1954)WrocławNew York City
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1888111Pierre ChareauFrench designer architect (1883-1950)BordeauxEast Hampton
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q120844772Arthur LourieAustrian Jewish art collector (d. 1939)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q119083570Robert PiowatyAustrian physician and art collector persecuted by Nazis because of Jewish heritage, suicide 1938BrnoAltes AKH
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125537772Heinrich GrafAustrian Jewish art collector (1892-1976)ViennaNew York
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15428578Oscar BondyAustrian entrepreneur and art collector persecuted by Nazis because JewishViennaNew York City
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1912361Max CassirerGerman Jewish entrepreneur, merchant and art collector (1857-1943)ŚwiętochłowiceLlanelltyd
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1913493Max SteinthalGerman Jewish banker and art collector persecuted by the Nazis (1850-1940)Berlin
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q71476Rudolf MosseGerman Jewish publisher (1843-1920)Grodzisk WielkopolskiSchloss Schenkendorf
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q669893Georges MandelFrench Jewish politician, resistance fighter and art collector, murdered in the Holocaust (1885-1944)ChatouFontainebleau
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125230580Clara Levy née IsaakGerman Jewish manufacturer and art collector (1864–1940)Luxembourg
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q94967732Jacques BacriFrench Jewish art collector and dealer persecuted during the Nazi occupation (1911-1965)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17326176Siegfried AramGerman Jewish lawyer, art dealer and art collector (1891-1978)HeilbronnNew York City
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3579906Édouard JonasFrench Jewish art dealer and politician (1883-1961)ParisParis
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q95146375Bruno SpiroGerman Jewish art collector deported by the Nazis (1875-1936)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1360663Rudolf von GutmannAustrian industrialist and art collector (1880–1966)ViennaVictoria
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q117309911Hedwig SternGerman Jewish art collector who emigrated to the USA (1898-1987)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q110879015Frederic Wolff-KnizeGerman Jewish businessman and art collector (1890-1949)ViennaNew York City
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q120441974Walter BlankGerman Jewish doctor art collector who died after fleeing the Nazis (1889–1938)HördeMataró
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42298795Julie EliasGerman Jewish fashion journalist and art collector (1866-1943)BerlinLillehammer Municipality
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q97133770David FriedmannGerman Jewish businessman and art collector -(1857-1942)Rawicz
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q213750Richard Beer-HofmannAustrian Jewish writer persecuted by Nazis (1866-1945)ViennaNew York City
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106878467Carl HeumannGerman Jewish art collector and banker (1886-1945)CologneChemnitz
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29852599Simon BauerFrench Jewish collector of impressionist art looted by Vichy Nazi Occupation authorities (1862-1947)Romanswiller16th arrondissement of Paris
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29168549Michael BerolzheimerGerman Jewish banker and art collector persecuted by the Nazis (1866-1942)FürthMount Vernon
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1293460Jacques RosenthalGerman Jewish antiquarian seller and bookseller (1854-1937)FellheimMunich
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51131634Hermann EisslerJewish art collector persecuted by Nazis (1860-1953)ViennaNice
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q102104Felix AuerbachGerman Jewish physicist and art collector (1856-1933), suicideWrocławJena
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1679058Jakob GoldschmidtGerman Jewish banker persecuted by Nazis (1882-1955)EldagsenNew York City
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q110491536Estella KatzenellenbogenGerman Jewish art collector persecuted by the Nazis (1886-1991)GermanySan Diego
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125884667Salomon Flavianart collector
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61662Carl SternheimGerman writer and art collector (1878-1942)LeipzigIxelles - Elsene
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q861074Ferenc ChorinHungarian Jewish businessman and art collector, Aryanized by Nazis (1879-1964)BudapestNew York City
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q94937026Siegfried LämmleGerman Jewish art dealer (1863-1953) persecuted by the NazisLaupheimLos Angeles
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1912453Max EmdenGerman Jewish merchant and art collector, persecuted by Nazis because Jewish (1874-1940)HamburgMuralto
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q19295599Moïse Lévy de BenzionFrench owner of an Egyptian department store who built an important collection of art and antiquities plundered by Nazis. (1873-1943)AlexandriaLa Roche-Canillac
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1337998Emma BudgeGerman Jewish art collector (1852-1937)HamburgHamburg
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q119123422Albert PollakAustrian Jewish art collector persecuted by the Nazis
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q119141919Georg Eduard BehrensGerman Jewish banker and art collector persecuted by the Nazis (1881-1956)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q118986438Annie Wolff-KnizeCzech Jewish art collector persecuted by the Nazis (1905-1979)New Canaan
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q118986649Rosa LembergerAustrian Jewish art collector (1882-1962)ViennaRoyal Leamington Spa
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q89724Ernst von Gotthilf-MiskolczyAustrian architect (1865-1950)TimișoaraOxford
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q119241917Rosa "Rosi" Adler (Jacobi)German Jewish art collector and refugee (1878-1946)StrasbourgBuenos Aires
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18785024Abraham AdelsbergerGerman Jewish toy manufactuer and art collector persecuted by Nazis (1863-1940)HockenheimAmsterdam
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q107166572Herbert von KlempererGerman Jewish engineer, art collector and emigrant (1878-1951)

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