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Art Market Network Visualisation for Swiss dealers: focus Theodor Fischer
source: Art Looting Investigation Unit Final Report |
The 1946 ALIU Final Report broke the Red Flag List Name down into ten separate geographical areas: Germany, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Luxembourg.
The network was International and overlapped But the ALIU tried to identify important actors by country.
In this post, we will look at the ALIU's listings for Switzerland.
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The place where two networks intersect is extremely interesting.
Red Flag Names in the Switzerland section of the 1946 Art Looting Investigation Unit Final Report meet Red Flag Names that mention Linz in the description |
So far we have looked at a few individual names and their networks as described in the 1946 report.
In this post we change focus to examine the links to a geographical area: Switzerland. Note: we are using the ALIU units category "Switzerland" for this analysis.
(An alternative approach would be to include every Red Flag entry that mentions the word "Switzerland" or a city in the country of Switzerland. This second approach would capture individuals not of Swiss nationality who had links to Switzerland which could be useful.)
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| Map of ALIU Red Flag names from the section on Switzerland, using the location information in the 1946 report. |
The original ALIU texts are attached to each red data point.
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| Zoom on Zurich art dealers (source: ALIU 1946 Final Report) |
The only data cleaning was to correct
three misspellings discussed in a previous post: Seira==> Skira; Caillier ==> Cailler; and Natman ==>Nathan). Otherwise the texts displayed are exactly as written in 1946 by the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit.
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| The ALIU entry for Tanner, President of the Federation of Swiss Art Dealers. The red marker is automatically located at Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse 29, the location included in the ALIU Final Report. |
Above is the Art Looting Investigation Unit 1946 entry for Tanner, President of the Federation of Swiss Art Dealers.
Below is the ALIU 1946 entry for Neupert Galerie.
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Galerie Neupert in Zurich "Father and son art dealers, in contact with Hofer, Haberstock, Lohse and Fischer"
(source: ALIU final Report) |
Albert Skira (which had been mistranscribed in the ALIU digital version as Seira) had a very long entry in 1946.
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Albert Skira in Geneva: "Owner of publishing firm'Editions d'Art', on British and American Proclaimed Lists
(source: ALIU Final Report) |
Below is the ALIU 1946 entry for Dr. Fritz Nathan (elsewhere misspelled as "Natman".)
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Dr Fritz Nathan in St Gallen: "Adviser to Buehrle, and intermediary between Fischer, Hofer and Buehrle"
(source: ALIU Fnal Report) |
Misspellings such as those for Nathan (Natman), Skira (Seira) and Cailler (Caillier) generate errors in network analysis and have to be corrected before generating intersecting network graphs.
Below is the cluster for Switzerland - that is, Red Flag names that were presented in the "Switzerland" section of the Final Report.
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The list of Red Flag Names in the Switzerland section of the ALIU Final Report can be visualised as a network.
Which names to focus on? We can look at the number of mentions in both the ALIU Red Flag list and the Switzerland section of this list for suggestions:
| ALIU RED FLAG | MENTIONS | | ALIU SWITZERLAND | MENTIONS |
| schenker | 155 | | | |
| hofer | 152 | | hofer | 19 |
| err | 139 | | fischer | 15 |
| goering | 93 | | wendland | 15 |
| muehlmann | 90 | | err | 10 |
| bornheim | 56 | | reber | 7 |
| haberstock | 56 | | rosenberg | 7 |
| lohse | 50 | | buehrle | 5 |
| kunstschutz | 47 | | angerer | 4 |
| goering’s | 40 | | engel | 4 |
| wendland | 40 | | lohse | 4 |
| dienststelle | 33 | | matisse | 4 |
| wuester | 32 | | stoecklin | 4 |
| angerer | 25 | | frey | 3 |
| fischer | 23 | | goering | 3 |
| schloss | 23 | | neupert | 3 |
| dietrich | 21 | | schmidlin | 3 |
| rochlitz | 20 | | tanner | 3 |
| rosenberg | 20 | | ascona | 2 |
| frapier | 19 | | benzion | 2 |
| bauer | 17 | | bernheim | 2 |
| voss | 17 | | boehler | 2 |
| engel | 16 | | buemming | 2 |
| posse | 16 | | dreyfus | 2 |
| reber | 16 | | haberstock | 2 |
| plietzsch | 15 | | hirschland | 2 |
| dequoy | 14 | | levy | 2 |
| loebl | 14 | | montag | 2 |
| heerengracht | 13 | | nathan | 2 |
| lange | 13 | | oerlikon | 2 |
| mueller | 13 | | raeber | 2 |
| martin | 12 | | rochlitz | 2 |
| behr | 11 | | skira | 2 |
| boehler | 11 | | toepfer | 2 |
| charles | 11 | | truessel | 2 |
| schmidt | 11 | | veraguth | 2 |
| gurlitt | 10 | | versoix | 2 |
| inquart | 10 | | wuester | 2 |
| katz | 10 | | | |
| lefranc | 10 | | | |
| paech | 10 | | | |
| scholz | 10 | | | |
| wildenstein | 10 | | | |
| kieslinger | 9 | | | |
| bachstitz | 8 | | | |
| boitel | 8 | | | |
| buehrle | 8 | | | |
| goepel | 8 | | | |
| goudstikker | 8 | | | |
| hamann | 8 | | | |
| hermssen | 8 | | | |
| petrides | 8 | | | |
| poellnitz | 8 | | | |
| postma | 8 | | | |
| bunjes | 7 | | | |
| devisenschutzkommando | 7 | | | |
| fabiani | 7 | | | |
| gritzbach | 7 | | | |
| heinz | 7 | | | |
| herbst | 7 | | | |
| hitler | 7 | | | |
| hoffmann | 7 | | | |
| holzapfel | 7 | | | |
| kajetan | 7 | | | |
| lagrand | 7 | | | |
| mandl | 7 | | | |
| perdoux | 7 | | | |
| poznan | 7 | | | |
| weinmueller | 7 | | | |
| bernheim | 6 | | | |
| brueschwiller | 6 | | | |
| friedlander | 6 | | | |
| garin | 6 | | | |
| gerard | 6 | | | |
| jansen | 6 | | | |
| kogl | 6 | | | |
| leegenhoek | 6 | | | |
| lippmann | 6 | | | |
| manteau | 6 | | | |
| mohnen | 6 | | | |
| morandotti | 6 | | | |
| rosenthal | 6 | | | |
| rothschild | 6 | | | |
| wolff | 6 | |
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We will gradually explore the different clusters within the Swiss and other networks in future posts.
For more on analysing art dealing networks, see also:
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