The Grosz was acquired from...

URL: https://www.openartdata.org/2024/11/the-grosz-was-acquired-from.html

The German Expressionist artist George Grosz (1893–1959) was persecuted by the Nazis for his art, while Grosz's art dealer, Alfred Flechtheim (1878-1937), was persecuted by the Nazis for being Jewish*. Both fled Nazi Germany in 1933, Grosz to America and Flechtheim to England. Both were plundered.

Some pretty elaborate speculation has been advanced concerning the itineraries of artworks via Grosz and Flechtheim. This post explores what the museums who have Grosz in their collections have to say about where they got it from.

Art Institutions Table

National Gallery of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art

Rosenwald Collection

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

"Degenerate Art" Collection

Dallas Museum of Art

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Museum of Modern Art

Bavarian State Painting Collections

King Baudouin Foundation

Where is this art today?

We're going to focus on the art created in early years, until 1932.

The itineraries of many of these artworks are contested. We will focus on the one piece of information that museums must know: who they acquired the Grosz artworks from and when.

How solid is an art provenance text? Analysis of a Degas sculpture at the NGA

"Probably", "possibly", "apparently", "proposes" and "allegedly" in texts for Degas' Dancer Adjusting the Shoulder Strap of Her Bodice, original wax 1880s/1890s, cast 1920/1949 at the NGA

Modern art seized by Nazis and sold through Curt Valentin: Where are they today?

Nazi Looted Art Research, focus on Curt Valentin and the sale of modern art, classified by Nazis as "Degenerate" and seized for resale to finance the Nazi war effort

Location of "Degenerate Art" seized by Nazis and sold by Curt Valentin (where it it known)

New York, Museum of Modern Art	16
Privatbesitz	12
St. Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum	5
Detroit, Institute of Arts	5
USA, Privatbesitz	4
Washington, National Gallery of Art	3
Philadelphia, Museum of Art	3
Hannover, Sprengel Museum	3
Essen, Museum Folkwang	3
Washington, Smithsonian Institution	2
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design	2
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum	2
Cambridge/MA, Fogg Art Museum	2
Cambridge/MA, Busch-Reisinger Museum - Harvard University Art Museums	2
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie	2
Würzburg, Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger	1
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum	1
Washington, Library of Congress	1
Washington, International Gallery of Art	1
Sydney, Art Gallery New South Wales	1
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie	1
Schweiz, Privatbesitz	1
Sammlung Rolf Horn	1
Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum	1
New York, Weintraub Gallery	1
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art	1
New York, Brooklyn Museum	1
Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art	1
Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum	1
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center	1
Minneapolis, Institute of Arts	1
Michigan, Slg. Adolph Alfred Taubmann	1
Mailand, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta	1
Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza	1
London, Sammlung Goodwin	1
Locarno, Museo Civico e Archeologico Castello Visconteo	1
Kunsthandel	1
Köln, Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln	1
Köln, Kunsthaus Lempertz	1
Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art	1
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle	1
Hagen, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum	1
Dresden, Skulpturensammlung	1
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art	1
Chicago, The Art Institute	1
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts	1
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld und Cie.	1
Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Museum Berggruen	1
Berlin, Galerie Michael Haas	1
Bergen, Kunstmuseum, Stenersen's Collection	1

 raw data source: Beschlagnahmeinventar "Entartete Kunst", "Degenerate Art" Research Center, FU Berlin; filtered for "Curt Valentin" and Location not blank or "Unbekannt"

http://emuseum.campus.fu-berlin.de/eMuseumPlus?service=RedirectService&sp=Scollection&sp=SfieldValue&sp=0&sp=5&sp=3&sp=SdetailList&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=2&sp=F

See also: Buchholz and Valentin in Provenance Texts in American Museums

DATASET: National Gallery of Art Nazi Era Provenance PUBLIC

Dataset name: National Gallery of Art Enhanced Provenance Research Dataset NEPIP PUBLIC

Description: This enhanced Provenance dataset has been constructed from  information available on the public internet site of the National Gallery of Art (NGA)  The dataset merges the list of artworks on the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal with provenance texts published on the NGA detailed item pages. 

This dataset is intended to facilitate research into Holocaust-era provenance for scholars, art historians and families. 

The original and best source of information concerning provenance remains the National Gallery of Art  public website.

Format: Google Sheet

URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTnJR2T4TtT-iFaioInvWpn8xhnhxjrWebFyWCvM3lodUssE0b_j64-vOC-PT17aVrxd-lcGp_SDntU/pubhtml?gid=1646299987&single=true


Download: CSV


Contents:

1. NEPIP National Gallery of Art 

2. About this file

3. NEPIP by Artists

4. NEPIP by Credit Line

5. NEPIP Provenance includes "private", "anonymous", "art market"

6. All of above

Publisher: OAD

Date of Publication: April 6, 2020

Example of content: Provenance text contains word "private", "anonymous", or "art market" 

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Original data sources that were merged to create the new DATASET: National Gallery of Art Nazi Era Provenance PUBLIC:

•  NEPIP National Gallery of Art 
  
  
•  National Gallery of Art  website Provenance texts of artworks 

Colonial-Era Art Provenance and dealer JJ Klejman

A simple Google search on JJ Klejman turns up several interesting articles concerning art from European colonies. Below are the results from a search (from Europe) on September 19, 2019

(photo: Fowl, Nigerian, Court of Benin, NGA, provenance:Reportedly Benin City, Nigeria, before 1897.[1] (J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York); purchased around 30 November 1955 by Winston Guest, New York; gift 1955 to NGA.
[1] The object was brought to Europe by a member of the British punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin in 1897, according to a letter of 30 November 1955 from J.J. Klejman, New York, to Winston Guest, New York (in NGA curatorial files).
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Thomas Hoving's Artful Tom: A Memoir, Chapter 24 - artnet ...

www.artnet.com › features › hoving › artful-tom-chapter-twenty-four6-1-09

Besides Harry Sperling another of my favorite dealer-smugglers was John J. Klejman. He and his wife owned an elegant gallery on Madison Avenue and 76th ..

J J Klejman Gallery - Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org › wiki

Sep 2, 2017 - Art Gallery owned by art dealer John Klejman. ... dealer John Klejman. John Klejman; Klejman Gallery; J. J. Klejman; John Jacob Klejman. edit ...

John J Klejman (Biographical details) - British Museum - Term ...

https://www.britishmuseum.org › research › search_the_collection_database

John J Klejman (Biographical details). John J Klejman (dealer/auction house; collector; American (USA); Male). Also known as. Klejman, J J. Biography.

What does it mean to find Cailleux in art provenance research?

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Jean Bernard Restout
c. 1771
Cleveland Museum of Art
http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1963.502

What does it mean to find the name "Cailleux" in a Nazi-era provenance, an artwork listed by a museum on NEPIP (the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal) or an artwork whose provenance shows a gap or uncertainty for the years 1933-1945?

In this series of posts, we will explore the name "Cailleux" where it appears in art provenances throughout the world.

Otto Wittmann's curious story

Victoria Dubourg by DEGAS at the Toledo Museum of Art
1963.45  http://emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/55168

Otto Wittmann, director of the Toledo Museum of Art from 1959 to 1977,  tells the "strange story" of how paintings by Degas and Cézanne came to Toledo in his interview "The museum in the creation of community".

According to the website of the Toledo Museum of Art, William Levis donated one Degas and one Cézanne to the Museum. Could these be the same Degas and Cézanne Otto Wittmann says were loaned to the National Gallery of Art by art dealers during World War II?

https://archive.org/details/museumincreation00witt/page/n7
see: Otto Wittmann by Wittmann, Otto, 1911-2001, interviewee; Cándida Smith, Richard, interviewer; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, compiler; J. Paul Getty Trust, publisher

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WITTMANN: "I'll tell you one strange story about the National Gallery..."