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Jul 11, 2020

DATASET: Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation

The Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation has published a new website.

The TED-CIVS database lists the paintings and drawings (TED = tableau et dessin) mentioned in files submitted by families to the CIVS. The aim is to centralize information on the works contained in the files and make sure they are readily available.

To search CIVS TED:
http://www.civs.gouv.fr/en/spoliated-cultural-property/ted-database/

TO VIEW CIVS TED DATASET IN A PUBLIC GOOGLE SHEET

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTxreu-uP8f8PWgmkEx666mattBafO-p0c12OhxGx_ZPmrvd9daa1nh2Y5-0srsFG1RggrYp0e2S9yR/pubhtml?gid=1870751531&single=true

DOWNLOAD CSV FILE

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTxreu-uP8f8PWgmkEx666mattBafO-p0c12OhxGx_ZPmrvd9daa1nh2Y5-0srsFG1RggrYp0e2S9yR/pub?gid=1870751531&single=true&output=csv

May 9, 2020

The Holocaust and the Art Market: Alfred Daber

What does it mean to find the name of Alfred Daber or of Galerie Daber in a provenance?

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1980.265

DABER is a name that can be found in the provenances of numerous artworks. However Alfred Daber, an ALIU Red Flag Name, was known to have trafficked in looted art during the Nazi era.

In this post, we gather information publicly available online in digital form about Alfred Daber. 1) Where - in which museums - does the name Daber appear in provenances? 2) What other names appear together with Daber? 3) What mentions of Daber can be found in databases such as France's Rose Valland MNR and the Getty Provenance Index and its Knoedler file? 4) What Fold3 archival documents mention Daber? and 5) What books or catalogs did Daber author or edit?

In short, what kind of picture emerges of the fates of artworks that, at one time or another, passed through Alfred Daber's hands?

Obviously, the presence of Daber's name in a provenance does not mean that the artwork was ill-gotten. However it is a Red Flag that should not be ignored. Further research is clearly required to account for 1933-1945 provenance gaps and to verify, down to the original sources, the narratives that are provided.

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https://www.fold3.com/image/270257378

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1) Museums holding artworks that mention the name Daber in the provenance (not exhaustive):

National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (four artworks source: Spoliation Reports))
Bristol Museums & Art Gallery (five artworks source: Spoliation Reports))
Glasgow Museums (source: Spoliation Reports)
National Galleries of Scotland (source: Spoliation Reports)
National Gallery in London (five artworks source: Spoliation Reports)
Cleveland Museum of Art (source: CMA)
Milwaukee Art Museum (source: Knoedler)
Norton Simon Museum (source: Knoedler)
Art Institute of Chicago (source: AIC)
Yale University Art Gallery (source: Yale website)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (source:metmuseum.org)

https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/25543

2) Associated Names

Names that appear in provenances together with Daber (not exhaustive)

César de Haucke*
Raphael Gérard*
George Petit*
Jacques Dubourg*
E.V. Thaw
Stephen Hahn
Fritz Nathan*
Sam Salz
Arthur Tooth and Sons
Knoedler*
Michel Fert
Ludwig Gutbier
G. Tanner*
Georges Renand*
Daber Gallery
Blondeau Gallery

* Art Looting Investigation Unit Red Flag Name

3) Daber in France MNR

Looted paintings in France's MNR that mention Daber

"Le tableau est acheté 11 250 RM chez Daber, Paris, en 1941 par M. Gutbier"

"Acheté 20 000 RM chez Daber, Paris, en 1941 par Ludwig Gutbier"

"Émile Staub, à Männedorf, en Suisse (où il est encore en 1931) ; on le voit ensuite chez G. Bernheim, Paris (1932) ; chez Carlo Frua de Angeli, à Milan ; chez G. Tanner, à Zurich ; il est exposé en 1937 dans la galerie Alfred Daber, Paris ; enfin il est acheté peu avant la guerre par Georges Renand (cat. Exposition d'Amsterdam en 1938). Le tableau est acheté à Georges Renand à Paris 50 000 RM par M. Wüster (1) pour Joachim von Ribbentrop en 1941"

The Getty Selected Dealer Archives & Locations lists Daber with Blondeau Gallery.

The Getty Provenance Index lists 32 artworks with Daber as the seller, the earliest transaction dates to 1954.

BONINGTON, RICHARD PARKES
BONNARD, PIERRE
BOUDIN, EUGÈNE LOUIS
BRIANCHON, MAURICE
CARRIÈRE, EUGÈNE
COROT, JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE
COURBET, GUSTAVE
DAUMIER, HONORÉ VICTORIN
DELACROIX, EUGÈNE
FANTIN-LATOUR, HENRI
GÉRICAULT, JEAN LOUIS ANDRÉ THÉODORE
GONZALÈS, EVA
GUIGOU, PAUL CAMILLE
MONET, CLAUDE
RENOIR, PIERRE AUGUSTE

Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 69, Stock No. A7216
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 187, Stock No. A6507
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 66, Stock No. A7173
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 200, Stock No. A6709
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 219, Stock No. A9243
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 137, Stock No. A5825
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 154, Stock No. A6065
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 154, Stock No. A6066
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 183, Stock No. A6438
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 183, Stock No. A6439
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 183, Stock No. A6440
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 183, Stock No. A6441
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 206, Stock No. A9095
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 107, Stock No. A5375
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 154,

Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 143, Stock No. A8314
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 171, Stock No. A8691
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 84, Stock No. A7405
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 180, Stock No. A8791
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 82, Stock No. A7384
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 148, Stock No. A8408
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 175, Stock No. A6334
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 73, Stock No. A7269
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 73, Stock No. A7270
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 73, Stock No. A7271
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 137, Stock No. A5833
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 154, Stock No. A6064
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 40, Stock No. A6064
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 174, Stock No. A8723
Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 186, Stock No. A6492
Knoedler Stock Book 11, Page 173, Stock No. A8720

Stock No. A6063

Knoedler Stock Book 8, Page 186, Stock No. A2036

4) FOLD 3 and the archival mentions of Alfred Daber

Art Dealers: Lists › Page 31 - Fold3.com

www.fold3.com › ... › Art Dealers: Lists

May 2, 2011 - DABER, Alfred 109) Boulevard Haussmann, Paris. Art dealer, specialises in 19th and 20th Century pictures. Had a laissez-passer from the ...

Germany - Claims, Art Dealer Lists › Page 38 - Fold3.com

www.fold3.com › document

Mar 26, 2012 - DABER, Alfred 109 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris. Art dealer, specialises in 19th and 20th Century pictures. Had a laissez-passer from the ...

Swiss Reports › Page 145 - Fold3.com

www.fold3.com › ... › Subject File › Swiss Reports

4, I an infomed that Alfred DABER, 109, Boulevard Haussnann, Paris, was trading in looted piotures with the EINSATZSTAB ROSENBERG. He surxroned ...

London Dispatch No. 24195, Dated July 11, 1945, From John ...

www.fold3.com › document

Some were willing collaborators"like' Alfred Daber, Martin Fabiani, Cesar de Haucke, 0. Petrides, and Count Avogli Trotti. Others like Loebl of the Kleinberger ...
https://www.fold3.com/document/270104113/

WASH-SPDF-INT-1: Documents 301-370 › Page 25 - Fold3.com

www.fold3.com › document

Feb 12, 2013 - Some were willing collaborators like Alfred Daber, Martin'Fabiani,.iCdsar de Haucke, 0. Petrides, and Count Avogli Trottii Others likV'Loebel of ...

Dealers — France › Page 30 - Fold3.com

www.fold3.com › ... › Subject File › Dealers — France

Louis CQUPAQHIE de la CHINE et des INDES' ' HENOU ot COLLE - S DABER, Alfred ,T., SCKMITT, Joan . 1 DESLOUIS .J. SCHOELLER, Andre ' " . i'.V .is.

[Sumner Mck.] Crosby's Report No 1, 2nd Trip, Dated ... - Fold3

www.fold3.com › document

I an infomed that Alfred DABER, 109, Boulevard Haussnann, Paris, 'was trading in looted pictures with the EMSATZSTAB ROSENBERG. He summoned TANNER ...
https://www.fold3.com/document/270101397/

Swiss Reports › Page 140 - Fold3.com

www.fold3.com › ... › Subject File › Swiss Reports

Alfred DABER art dealer Bid. Houssaann (in connection with 2VMER of Zurich). Cesar do HAUCKE art dealer, ? PETPJDES art dealer, Count Avogli TROTTI art ...

Lists › Page 31 - Fold3.com

www.fold3.com › ... › Reports › Lists

... RENOU et COLLE DABER, Alfred SCHMITT, Jean DESLOUIS - SCHOELLER, Andre DEQUOY, Roger SIMON Galerie DESMARETS et GODARD SOO & CIE.

J Reports › Page 140 - Fold3.com

www.fold3.com › ... › General Records › J Reports

2f, I am informed that Alfred DABER, .109, Boulevard Haussmann, Pari3, was trading in looted pictures with the EDTSATZSTAB ROSENBERG.. He summoned ...

J Reports › Page 125 - Fold3.com ("Agents of High Placed Nazis For Looting Works of Art")

www.fold3.com › ... › General Records › J Reports

... of TODTMDOS-AU (Badon) TOm Paris Martin FABIANI art dealer, Avenue Matignon, Roger DEQUOX . art dealer Rue la Boetie, Alfred DABER . -, art dealer ...
https://www.fold3.com/image/270037474

London File- British Element CC (Bunjes Papers, Ect ... - Fold3

www.fold3.com › document

I an infomed that Alfred DABER, 109, Boulevard Haussnann, Paris, was trading in looted piotures with the EINSATZSTAB ROSENBERG. He suvxioned TWINER ...

Art Dealers: Lists › Page 27 - Fold3.com

www.fold3.com › ... › Art Dealers: Lists

... Charles CHALEY6SIN NICOLIER, Jean COMPAGNIE de la CHINE v OSTINS, J.R. et des INDES PERDOUX, Yves DaBER, Alfred PERRET-VIBERT DEQ00Y.

[Sumner Mck.] Crosby's Report No 1, 2nd Trip, Dated ... - Fold3

www.fold3.com › document

(Baden) Fron Paris Martin FABIANI art dealer, Avenue Matignon, Roger DEQUOI art dealer Rue la BoStie, Alfred DABER art dealer Bid, Houssannn (in ...

Intelligence: German Disposal Of Works Of Art; Vaucher ...

www.fold3.com › document

... COMPAGNIE de la CHINE OSTINS, J,R. et des INDES PERDOUX, Yves DABER. AlfredPERREI-VIBERT DEQOOY, Roger PEIRIDES, Galerie 6., DESLOUIS ...

London File- British Element CC (Bunjes Papers, Ect.) - Fold3

www.fold3.com › document

Roger DEQUOY art dealer Rue la Bofitio, Alfred DABER art dealer Bid, Houssmann (in connection with TANNER of Zurich), Cesar de HAUCKE art dealer.

Art Dealers-Vaucher Commission Lists, July 16, 1945 › Page ...

www.fold3.com › document

J.R. et des INDES PERDOUX, Yves DABER- Alfred PERRET-VIBERT DEQUOY, Roger PETRIDES, Galerie 0. DESLOUIS POPOFF, Alexandre DESMARETS et ...

Basic Source Documents On Emil Daber Ez Gea Branch ...

www.fold3.com › document

Basic Source Documents On Emil Daber Ez Gea Branch › Page 2 ... partner is the non-aryan Mr Alfred Seligmann, residence Berlin 1 Handicraft sole enterprise, ...

Germany - Claims, Art Dealer Lists › Page 34 - Fold3.com

www.fold3.com › ... › Germany - Claims, Art Dealer Lists

J.R. et des INDES , PERDOUX, Yves DABER. Alfred PERRET-VIBERT DEQUOY, Roger PET RIDES, Galerie 0. DESLOUIS POPOFF, Alexandre DESMARETS ...

O7.0024 Vö Emil Daber KG › Page 10 - Fold3.com

www.fold3.com › ... › O7.0024 Vö Emil Daber KG

Naine of Owner a Emil Daber b Max Marschenz beide Komplimenfare va- n n.no npc r l(jf'n ti imers 'AK, o Dipl. Ing. Alfred Sellgmaim d Paul Hildebrandt beiae ...

Liaison-French › Page 2 - Fold3.com

www.fold3.com › ... › Reports › Liaison-French

... Hans ciiamann Kapferer, Henry Creusot, Mademoiselle Katz, Manfred, alias Boyer, alias Thomas Daber, Alfred Alfred Degroof j Keller Delneco, Emile Khoth, ...

5) Art Books by Alfred Daber

The obvious question is what credibility could any provenance text written by Alfred Daber have concerning the ownership history of an artwork during the Nazi era?

Apr 30, 2020

Tracing Jewish Art Collectors and other #LostArtPeople by Place of Death

In our previous post, we introduced the idea of using Wikidata Queries to Trace Jewish art collectors and their collections.

In this post, we begin to look at how we might identify these Jewish individuals, many of whom have been not only forgotten but deliberately written out of history.

What information or feature might help us to identify them?
What do we know about them?

They died after 1932
They were connected to the arts in some way: as collectors, dealers, curators, historians, curators, museum directors, gallery owners, possibly as artists
Their names might have appeared in exhibitions or catalogs as owners or lenders or donors or experts, or in books or articles as authors, in the provenance texts of collections, for example.

The above criteria is very large and not specific to Jewish collectors in the Nazi era. How can we further narrow the criteria? One element that distinguishes the fates of Jewish individuals from others is how and where they died, and whether or not they were interned, spoliated or became refugees.

What kind of markers can we look for in the data?

Place of death
Year of death
Cause of death
Place of internment
Significant events like aryanization or arrest or deportation

All of the above correspond to "Properties" that are defined in Wikidata. Not all these properties have been updated for every Wikidata item. But they could be.

A Wikidata Query can easily show us all the people who are known (in Wikidata) to have died or been interned in a Nazi camp or ghetto.

How to do this?

There were so many Nazi camps in so many countries (see below) that we look for a way to take each one into account without necessarily naming each one in a query.

One way is to use Wikidata's "instance of" (P31).

We can tell the query to list people who died in a place that is defined as any of the following things:

Nazi concentration camp (Q328468)
concentration camp (Q152081)
extermination camp (Q153813)
ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe (Q2583015)

We might still miss a few of the camps (due to the crowdsourcing nature of Wikidata, not every item is coded in exactly the same way,) but this should be a good start.

There are several ways to do OR type queries in Wikidata.

We will use the very straight forward UNION. (Please do not hesitate to suggest better ways).

WHERE {
{ ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q328468.} UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q152081. } UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q153813.} UNION { ?placediedwdt:P31 wd:Q153813.} UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q2583015.}

To make the Wikidata query run faster and avoid time outs, we will first check that the place of death has been entered by someone into Wikidata.

?item wdt:P20 ?placedied.

Then, instead of specifying, as we did in the previous query, that we want to list the people who died in the specific Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

?item wdt:P20 wd:Q7341.

we want to request people who died in any place coded as an instance of Q328468, Q152081, Q153813 or Q2583015

{ ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q328468.} UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q152081. } UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q153813.} UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q153813.} UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q2583015.}

This should include all the Nazi camps and ghettos listed at the bottom of this post

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SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel ?pic ?datedied ?placediedLabel ?placedied ?child ?childLabel ?ownedby ?ownedbyLabel ?depicts ?depictsLabel ?depictedby ?depictedbyLabel ?countryLabel ?ownerof ?ownerofLabel ?spouse ?employer ?employerLabel ?spouseLabel ?mother ?motherLabel ?father ?fatherLabel ?sibling ?siblingLabel ?investby ?investbyLabel ?sigperson ?sigpersonLabel ?party ?partyLabel ?partner ?partnerLabel WHERE {

{ ?item wdt:P106 wd:Q1792450.} UNION { ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q1007870. } UNION { ?item wdt:P106 wd:Q173950.} UNION { ?item wdt:P921 wd:Q328376.} UNION { ?item wdt:P106 wd:Q10732476.} UNION { ?item wdt:P106 wd:Q446966.} UNION { ?item wdt:P106 wd:Q22132694.} UNION { ?item wdt:P106 wd:Q674426.}

SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" }

?item wdt:P20 ?placedied.

{ ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q328468.} UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q152081. } UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q153813.} UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q153813.} UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q2583015.}

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P18 ?pic. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P127 ?ownedby. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P570 ?datedied. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P20 ?placedied. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P180 ?depicts. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P921 ?plunder. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P1830 ?ownerof. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P108 ?employer. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P569 ?birth. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P40 ?child. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P214 ?VIAF_ID. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P19 ?place_birth. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P244 ?Library_of_Congress_authority_ID. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P227 ?GND_ID. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P245 ?ULAN_ID. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P26 ?spouse. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P27 ?country. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P3342 ?sigperson. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P102 ?party. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P1327 ?partner. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P1840 ?investby. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P25 ?mother. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P22 ?father. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P3373 ?sibling. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P1299 ?depictedby. }

OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P39 ?position. }

FILTER (YEAR(?datedied) >= 1933 )

}

LIMIT 20000

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note: careful: the filter should read datedied "greater than or equal to" 1933. Sometimes the greater than symbol gets garbled on this blog

(Notice the word OPTIONAL? We are telling Wikidata to get the information if it is available but not to worry about it if it is not. Since we want to understand who these individuals were, the context of their lives and their relations with others, we have added much optional information to the query. This is not strictly speaking necessary, but possibly useful for future network analysis)
The Wikidata Sparql Query can present the results in many different ways.

As a table.

As a graph.

With photos

We can zoom in close to view certain specific elements that are hard to see when looking at lots of data.

We also get an idea of where data might be missing.

Camps and ghettos listed in the Wikidata Query

SELECT ?placedied ?placediedLabel
WHERE
{
{ ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q328468.} UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q152081. } UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q153813.} UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q153813.} UNION { ?placedied wdt:P31 wd:Q2583015.}
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}

(Short link to query and result - Try it!)

Pages

Jul 11, 2020

May 9, 2020

1) Museums holding artworks that mention the name Daber in the provenance (not exhaustive):

2) Associated Names

3) Daber in France MNR

4) FOLD 3 and the archival mentions of Alfred Daber

J Reports › Page 125 - Fold3.com ("Agents of High Placed Nazis For Looting Works of Art")

5) Art Books by Alfred Daber

Apr 30, 2020

In this post, we begin to look at how we might identify these Jewish individuals, many of whom have been not only forgotten but deliberately written out of history.

A Wikidata Query can easily show us all the people who are known (in Wikidata) to have died or been interned in a Nazi camp or ghetto.

Camps and ghettos listed in the Wikidata Query