FOLD3: Red Flag Name Fritz Nathan entered as Fritz Najean

Digital Humanities can help find information if the information is correctly digitized. But if names are misspelled, they will be invisible to a digital search function.

FOLD3, the excellent digital archive associated with NARA, the National Archives, has a problem with the transcriptions of the Art Looting Investigation Unit Red Flag List of Names. And the problem seems to be getting worse, not better.
If one searches the ALIU Final Report for "Nathan" one will find Nathan Katz. The entry for Fritz Nathan will not appear in the search.

If one knows that there is an entry for Fritz Nathan in the Switzerland section of the Art Looting Investigation Unit Red Flag List and goes to the page where it appears, one can see on the image the entry for (*) Nathan, Dr. Fritz. However the list of searchable names on the left side of the screen shows, not Fritz Nathan, but a "Fritz Najean".

There is no such person as Fritz Najean in the actual ALIU Reports. However, if one searches on "Najean" the record will appear.

If, however, one searches on "Nathan", one will only find Nathan, Katz. Not Fritz Nathan.

This kind of data error should be of concern to digital humanities scholars, art historians, provenance researchers, and archivists.

see FOLD3 https://www.fold3.com/image/232006332 for Fritz Nathan aka Najean entry

For other ALIU Reports on Fold3 see:

CIRs: https://www.fold3.com/browse/114/hvMxROzkdWx-J5nVj

DIRs https://www.fold3.com/browse/114/hvMxROzkdSyceieW2

Final (including Red Flag List) https://www.fold3.com/browse/114/hvMxROzkd1ZVdGNv9C7Gz495S


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For more digital transcription errors concerning Fritz Nathan see also:

- National Archives: Holocaust era assets, where Nathan is digitized as "Mathan".

https://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/finding-aid/military/part-2-notes.html

- Buehrle, Emil entry in the digitized publication of the ALIU Red Flag List, where Nathan is transcribed as "Natman".

https://www.lootedart.com/MVI3RM469661

Women Art Dealers Involved in Nazi-Era and Post-War Art Market Networks

The 1946 Art Looting Investigation Unit Final Report listed many women

The OSS Investigators in 1946 identified numerous women involved in various capacities in the Nazi-era art market. There were art dealers, collectors, restorers, and other art market professionals as well as secretaries, assistants, family members, spouses and lovers ("six mentions of "mistress") 

How to find the women investigation by the ALIU? In this experiment, we searched by the following words:
Frau
Frl
Madame
Mlle
Mme
wife
mother
sister
daughter 
secretary
Mrs

In many cases the woman was the subject of an investigation by the Art Looting Unit and consequently had her own entry with a description of her activities. In other cases, she is mentioned in the description of a man ("wife of", "sister of", etc.)

The source data is available in this public Google Fusion table:

OSS ALIU Red Flag Names PUBLIC-Women of the Red Flag List

The original data source is from lootedart.com which was formatted for searches in Google Sheets in OSS ALIU Red Flag Names PUBLIC using filters.

How active were women in Nazi looting? The ALIU Red Flag List of Names mentions about 177 people in connection with the ERR. Women were about 10% of the total.

Women in the Nazi looting organisation known as the ERR ("Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce" or "Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg")

Male vs Female members of the Nazi looting organisation known as the ERR
source: ALIU Red Flag List

At the center of Nazi action: Frau Maria Dietrich.

The Networks of Frau Maria Dietrich

Suspects who the ALIU connected to Frau Maria Dietrich
source: ALIU Final Report

"Dietrich, Frau Maria Almas. Munich, Gustav Freytagstr 5. Art dealer; personal friend of Hitler, and for a time his principal buyer of works of art. One of the most important purchasing agents for Linz. Was under house arrest at Grafing, Bavaria, autumn 1945." - ALIU 1946 Final Report

Dietrich appears in the bios of 17 suspects under investigation by the Art Looting Investigation Unit in the 1946 Red Flag list.  ("DIR No.14 on the activities of Maria Dietrich was planned.It was not issued, but a full accounting of her activities was incorporated into Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 4.")

The networks become very interesting when one takes the analysis further, looking into the connection of each of Dietrich's connections.... Some of these names have already been touched upon in previous posts.

See:
Provenance Research: Paul Cailleux in NEPIP

Networks of Yves Perdoux

Red Flags in Art History: Zacharie Birtschansky or Birshansky

WWII art looting networks: Leegenhoek

WWII Art Looting Networks: Göpel (Goepel), Wuester, Holzapfel, Lefranc, Mandl, Birtschansky and Bloch

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Mapping ALIU looted art market networks with Google Fusion Tables

Graphs from Google Fusion Tables can help us to visualise the Nazi looted art market described in 1946 by the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit

There is little, at present, in the way of digital network analysis of Nazi looted art markets.

The field appears to be wide open. (Digital art historians, take note). 
There does not seem to be a sophisticated user base of researchers adapt at using digital tools to explore Nazi looted art markets or even much of an appreciation for how illuminating use of these tools can be.

Google Fusion Tables is a free experimental tool that is easy to use, very powerful and built for collaboration. It has been widely adopted by investigative journalists and data journalists whose analytical detective methods have much to offer to historians of the Holocaust as well as scholars of the art market.

Time is short, as Google has announced plans to pull the plug on Fusion Tables on December 3, 2019.

The clock is ticking. However, in the eleven months that Google Fusion Tables has to live, there is a lot of innovative research that can be done with methods that are within the reach of absolutely anyone who cares to learn. (This includes not just those interested in Nazi looted art, but also researchers of colonialism.)

see:

Networks of Bruno Lohse

The Ultimate Art Looting Network: Agents of High Placed Nazis

Switzerland in the Art Looting Investigation Unit Red Flag List of Names

Networks of Gustav Rochlitz

RIP Fusion Tables: Google is killing off the beloved data visualization tool from Fastcompany

Networks of Yves Perdoux

What is known about Yves Perdoux? Quite a lot actually. 

The OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit mentioned the name "Perdoux" seven times in its 1946 Red Flag List. The investigators refered to the "Wendland, Lohse, Perdoux art dealing syndicate" and the "informal dealers’ syndicate composed of Wendland, Perdoux, Boitel, Dequoy"...
Hector Feliciano mentioned him in The Lost Museum in 1995.
More recently,  Kenneth D. Alford's Hermann Goring and the Nazi Art Collection: The Looting of Europe's Art Treasures and Their Dispersal After World War II  (ISBN-13: 978-0786468157) refers to Perdoux quite a few times as well. (It's easy to find all the mentions with the searchable Kindle version).

Perdoux in a provenance is a signal that more research is needed.

His name is linked to Hermann Goering, Hans Wendland, Walter Andreas Hofer, Zacharie Birtschansky and Victor Mandl and more, as one can see below in these excerpts.

paintings at France MNR with Yves Perdoux in the provenance

Perdoux in the 1946 OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit Red Flag Names list:

• Perdoux, Yves. Paris, 178 rue du Fbg St Honore/6 rue de Teheran/6 blvd Flandrin. Operated the Galerie Guynot. One of the most active collaborationist dealers. Close associate of Wendland, Boitel and Loebl. Ardent Nazi, constantly in touch with Dietrich and other German buyers. Interrogated in 1945 by the Police Judiciaire. Reported ill and near death in January 1946.

• Boitel, Achilles (deceased). Paris, 6 rue de Teheran/11 bis rue Ampere. Wealthy French industrialist and speculator, who acted as Wendland’s French agent after the Swiss made it impossible for him to leave that country. Chief financial figure in the Wendland, Lohse, Perdoux art dealing syndicate. Worked with Lohse and Hofer, and was a good friend of von Behr. Connected with Hofer in exchanges of Swiss and French francs. Open collaborator who was often in Germany before the war and spoke fluent German. Assassinated by the French Resistance.

• Thierry. Villefranche sur Mer, Villa ‘Le Miradou ‘, ave Gauvin Paris, 75 rue d’Auteuil. Collaborationist dealer, active in Paris and Nice. Worked with Brueschwiller, Ward Holzapfel and Mme Soyer, his mistress. Sold to Rochlitz, Perdoux, Aguilar, Moebius, and others.

• Garin, Ernest. Paris, 9 rue de l’Echelle. Formal proprietor of the Galerie E Garin, aryanised in this name by Ali Loebl. The Garin firm actually succeeded Kleinberger’s and under Loebl becamse centre of the informal dealers’ syndicate composed of Wendland, Perdoux, Boitel, Dequoy, etc. Garin personally played a relatively minor part in the business of the firm during the occupation. Indicted by French Government (Seine Tribunal, Judge Frapier).

• Guynot, Henri. Neuilly Paris, 178 rue du Fbg St Honore. Gallery directed by Perdoux. Dealt with Hofer and Lohse. Sold to Haberstock; documentary evidence in Unit files.

• Loebl, Ali (Allen). Paris, rue des Pyramides/9 rue de l’Echelle/34 quai de Passy. Dealer, of Austro-Hungarian Jewish descent. Director and leading spirit of the firm Kleinberger & Co, ‘aryanised ‘ under the name of E Garin during the war. Centre of the informal art dealing syndicate comprising Wendland, Perdoux, Mandl, Boitel, Dequoy, Engel. Sold chiefly to Lohse, Hofer and Haberstock, for whom he travelled as agent in unoccupied France. Contact of Mohnen, Landry, Mestrallet. Indicted by the French Government (Seine Tribunal, Judge Frapier).

• Mandl, Victor. Paris, 9 rue du Boetie. German refugee dealer, formerly active in Berlin. Highly important figure in German art purchases in Paris. Close contact of Wendland, Dietrich, Voss, Goepel, Muehlmann, Lohse, Loebl, Perdoux, Birtschansky and Wuester. Indicted by French Government for collaborationist activity.

Yves Perdoux is also included in the list of Art dealers involved in wartime trading in looted art in France

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Yves Perdoux in the News

1999
Libération: NYMPHÉAS». LE MARCHAND JUIF ROSENBERG AVAIT ÉTÉ SPOLIÉ DE CE TABLEAU EN 1940. Par Vincent Noce — 30 avril 1999

Au printemps 1940, au moment de fuir par l'Espagne il avait remisé cent-soixante tableaux en Gironde, dans sa villa de Floirac et dans les coffres de la Banque nationale du commerce à Libourne. Parmi elles, les Nymphéas mais aussi des chefs-d'oeuvre aussi importants que l'Homme à l'oreille cassée de Van Gogh. Informés sur dénonciation de deux antiquaires, le comte de Lestang et Yves Perdoux, les nazis investissent la villa le 15 septembre 1940. Les délateurs recevront trois Pïssaro pour leur peine.


2016
Le Figaro La famille Bromberg retrouve son tableau, volé pendant la guerre - Par   Journaliste Figaro Claire Bommelaer

16 June 2018
"Le premier jour de printemps à Moret", by Alfred Sisley--Part Two
by Marc Masurovsky
Thirty years elapsed before Mr. Perdoux allegedly acquired the Sisley painting. There is nothing to indicate that he bought it from Durand-Ruel. This could be the same Perdoux as Yves Perdoux, a notorious Parisian art dealer who collaborated with the Nazis during the German occupation of France and denounced the locations of a number of Jewish-owned art collections, including that of Paul Rosenber
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Yves Perdoux in German Lost Art Foundation: Beteiligte Privatpersonen und Körperschaften am NS-Kulturgutraub, Lost Art-Da­ten­bank, Mo­dul "Pro­ven­ienz­re­cher­che",  NS-Raub­kunst

Paris; 178 rue du Fbg Saint-Honoré, 66 rue de Teheran, 6 bd Flandrin; Leiter der Galerie Guynot, einer der aktivsten Kollaborateure, enger Kontakt zu Hans Wendland, Boitel, Loebel und Kontaktperson von Almas-Dietrich in Paris


Qu.: ALIU, Final Report, 118

Yves Perdoux in Site Rose-Valland Musées Nationaux Récupération

Portrait d'homme Collection du consul Edouard F. Weber, Hambourg, 1909 ; vente Weber, Berlin, 10-22 février 1912, n° 99. Collection M. Bromberg, Hambourg. Collection Victor Mandl, Wiesbaden. Collection G. Wildenstein, Paris, 1939 (selon annotations relevées dans les dossiers du RKD). 
Le panneau est acheté 18 750 RM à Yves Perdoux, Paris, par la galerie Almas Dietrich le 22 février 1941 (provision Jurschewitz 600 RM) et revendu 35 000 RM en mars 1941 au musée de Linz (1) ; il est enregistré le 15 juillet 1945 au Central Collecting Point de Munich sous le n° 4416 et renvoyé en France le 3 juin 1949 (2).
Il est attribué au musée du Louvre (département des peintures) par l'Office des Biens et Intérêts Privés en 1950 (3).
Puis il est déposé au musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry en 1960 (D 63-1) (4).
Le panneau a été restitué aux ayants-droit d’Hertha et Henry Bromberg le 28 novembre 2016.

Perdoux in  Hermann Goring and the Nazi Art Collection: The Looting of Europe's Art Treasures and Their Dispersal After World War II

[Göring]..." was represented in Paris by Hofer, Bornheim, Lohse, Angerer and Dr. Joseph Muehlmann, who made regular trips to Paris and stayed as long as two or three months at a time. Göring’s purchasing activity was enormous, as validated by the Carinhall shipping tickets in the files of Schenker Transportation Company. Wendland was most active in Paris, capitalizing upon his German citizenship in a land occupied by Germans and upon his wide prewar acquaintance with those in the Paris art market, Wendland became a kind of advisor and guide to many of the French dealers anxious to do business with Germans. He gradually formed an informal syndicate of the French dealers Boitel, Perdoux, and Loebl. He was connected with the Dequoy-Fabinai combination, and he is known to have had interests in the Mandl-Birtschanksy art association."



"Added to the established dealers came a flock of intermediaries and middlemen to guide the Germans. They all worked together and the same pieces of art turned up at different places at different times with a higher price. The most important of these groups was headed by Hans Wendland and Paris art dealer Yves Perdoux. They all had connections to Hermann Göring, through Wendland and Hofer, as Wendland represented Göring in the Greater Reich and Perdoux with his contacts throughout France.  - Hermann Goring and the Nazi Art Collection: The Looting of Europe's Art Treasures and Their Dispersal After World War II

(there's more, Kindle version recommended for easy search facilities)

Library References and Authority Files for Yves Perdoux

There is no ULAN ID for Yves Perdoux, however other authority files exist for him:

SNAC http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6vz0cb8

Epithet: antique dealer, of Paris

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000149.0x000094

 Constellation JSON EAC-CPF XML

Permalink: http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vz0cb8

Ark ID:w6vz0cb8


SNAC ID: 46357420

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Yves Perdoux in Ownership History of Paintings or Provenance

Louvre

• DANSE VILLAGEOISE
• LA PLANTATION DU MAI

Boston Museum of Fine Art

• Portrait of a Young Man in Brown, possibly Javier Goya

Provenance
... March 17, 1923, Bamberger sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 49, to Trotti et Cie., Paris. 1924, Yves Perdoux, Paris [see note 4]. 1926, Goudstikker, Amsterdam (stock no. 1667) [see note 5]. 1927, Howard Young Galleries, New York (stock no. 2573); 1927, sold by Howard Young Galleries to John Taylor Spaulding (b. 1870 - d. 1948), Boston; 1948, bequest of John Taylor Spaulding to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 3, 1948)

(Also in Getty Provenance Index Public Collections:
Provenance of Paintings Record 10611
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE
Portrait of a Man
Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts
48.558
canvas

Perdoux, Yves (?). Paris, France)

Detroit Institute of Arts

Still Life with Dead Hare, ca. 1760

Provenance
Mme. Becq de Fouquières (Paris, France);
May 8, 1925, (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) lot 17 [pendant was no. 18, purchased by Yves Perdoux];
M. Sherematieff (Paris, France);
Dr. Wendland (Basel, Switzerland);
purchased by (Kleinberger Galleries, New York, New York, USA);
November 1926, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

(update ongoing..)

Fabiani in France's MNR provenances

François Boucher

La Lumière du monde

François Boucher

La Lumière du monde

The name FABIANI appears twenty-five times in France's MNR (Site Rose-Valland Musées Nationaux Récupération), one time in the Linz Collection and eight times in the Art Looting Investigation Unit's Red Flag List of Names of suspects in Nazi art looting.

WWII art looting networks: Leegenhoek

Brueghel in the Linz database. It passed through Leegenhoek's hands to Gallery Maria Almas-Dietrich. See: http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/linzdb/indexe.html

What does it mean to find "Leegenhoek" in a WWII era provenance?

French documentary: Looted paintings: the quest of a lifetime

The French television channel France2 has just aired an extremely interesting documentary on "13h15 le samedi. Tableaux spoliés: la quête d'une vie"" (1:15pm Saturday: Looted paintings: the quest of a lifetime).

Link to view: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazine/france-2/13h15/13h15-du-samedi-7-avril-2018_2683382.html

 France2 : "13h15 le samedi. Tableaux spoliés: la quête d'une vie"" (1:15pm Saturday: Looted paintings: the quest of a lifetime).

The documentary follows the family members of three Jewish art collectors whose collections were seized during the Nazi occupation of France. As archives gradually open more than seventy years later, the younger generations attempt to discover what happened. They are helped by provenance researcher Emmanuelle Polack.

You can view the documentary here for the next week in replay. 

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazine/france-2/13h15/13h15-du-samedi-7-avril-2018_2683382.html

The first person to be filmed was the great niece of art collector Armand Dorville. Most of the family was deported and Dorville's collection was seized and auctioned off after his death by an administrator for the Commissariat général aux questions juives (since he was Jewish). The younger generation did not know about the existence of the art collection until researcher Emmanuelle Polack discovered a 1942  auction catalogue.

Where are the 175 paintings that once belonged to Armand Dorville now?

Some of Dorville's paintings showed up in the Gurlitt collection and, as the documentary shows, in at least one French museum. 

Google did not exist back then but it does now. 
Here are a few of the responses to a search on "Dorville":

• http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/0/31273-Une-revue-aux-Invalides

http://www2.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr?ACTION=RETROUVER&FIELD_98=AUTR&VALUE_98=GUYS%20Constantin&NUMBER=62&GRP=0&REQ=%28%28GUYS%20Constantin%29%20%3AAUTR%20%29&USRNAME=nobody&USRPWD=4%24%2534P&SPEC=1&SYN=1&IMLY=&MAX1=1&MAX2=1&MAX3=200&DOM=All

http://www2.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr?ACTION=RETROUVER&FIELD_98=AUTR&VALUE_98=GUYS%20Constantin&NUMBER=50&GRP=0&REQ=%28%28GUYS%20Constantin%29%20%3AAUTR%20%29&USRNAME=nobody&USRPWD=4%24%2534P&SPEC=1&SYN=1&IMLY=&MAX1=1&MAX2=1&MAX3=200&DOM=All

http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/19th-century-paintings-n08847/lot.45.html

http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.4.html/2012/19th-century-paintings-n08894
https://www.drouot.com/artiste/deveria-achille-1800-1857-_46254

http://www.lostart.de/Webs/EN/Datenbank/EinzelobjektKFM.html?cms_param=EOBJ_ID%3D478437%26_page%3D11%26_sort%3D%26_anchor%3Did76094
http://www.taskforce-kunstfund.de/fileadmin/object_records_excerpts%20/Forain_ORE_2016-01-08_478052.pdf

http://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/fileadmin/user_upload/01Ausstellungen/gurlitt/PM_Gurlitt_eng.pdf

https://www.kulturgutverluste.de/Content/01_Stiftung/DE/Veranstaltungsnachlese/2017/Tagungsbericht_franzoesisch.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2

[PDF]Task Force Schwabing Art Trove/ Object record excerpt for Lost Art ID ...

www.lostart.de/Content/041.../_ORE/Forain_ORE_478052.pdf?__blob...v=10

Jan 28, 2018 - Provenance: (…) By latest 1933: Armand Dorville, Paris. Sale: Vente aux enchères du cabinet d'un amateur parisien, Hall du Savoy, Nice, 24–27 June 1942, no. 182, pl. XLIII. M./Mme. [?] Béatrice, Hôtel Royal, Nice, acquired at the above sale. (…) (Probably acquired by Hildebrand Gurlitt in France in the ...

see also NEWS from LOOTEDART.COM on the Jaffe, Dorville, and Gimpel searches

Les magazines de France 2

"13h15 le samedi". Tableaux spoliés : la quête d’une vie

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazine/france-2/13h15/13h15-du-samedi-7-avril-2018_2683382.html

For related documentaries, see also:

• The Mystery of the Modigliani Masterpiece - the fifth estate

•  Quand un Modigliani spolié refait surface dans les "Panama Papers"

• Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice

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published on 04/10/2018
modified on 01/23/2020
published by: Open Art Data
url: https://www.openartdata.org/2018/04/french-documentary-about-looted-art.html

Art Provenance Research: Guilio, Luigi, Arturo and Ginori Grassi?

Giulio and Luigi Grassi: Holocaust Era Assets WWII OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit Final Report Page 164

source: https://www.fold3.com/image/232006580

The Art Looting Investigation Unit Final Report contains several mentions of the name "Grassi".

• Angerer, Josef (Sepp). Berchtesgaden. After Hofer, Goering’s most important buyer. Ardent Nazi, known to have had Gestapo connections. Member of firm of Quantmeyer & Eicke. Active throughout Europe, notably France and Italy. Contact of Reber, Ventura, Contini-Bonacossi, Ginori and Arturo Grassi. Was under temporary house arrest at Berchtesgaden, house of Fritz Goernnert, autumn 1945

• Grassi, Dr. Zurich. Official of the Schweizer Kantonal Bank. Special contact of Wendland.

• Grassi, Giulio and Luigi. Florence, Via Cavour 106. Established Florentine art dealers. Trafficked heavily with German officials and dealers, particularly Hofer, Angerer and Posse. Sold considerable quantity of furniture to Contini.

• Sestieri, Dr Ettoro. Rome, Lungetevere Oberdan. Dealer. Historian. Director of Barberini Gallery. Worked with Grassi and Morandotti who introduced him to Hofer.

• Wallerstein, Dr Victor. Florence, viale Manfredo Fanti 109. German Jewish refugee dealer, whose brother is an orchestra leader in New York. Middleman for Hofer in Florence. Contact of Contini-Bonacossi, Ventura and Grassi.

However the Red Flag Names Index only mentions a Dr, and the brothers, Giulio and Luigi Grassi. There is no mention of Ginori and Arturo Grassi.

Grassi, Dr. 131 CIR 2; DIR 9; Miedl Report III.

Grassi, Giulio 159 CIR 2; DIR 9

Grassi, Luigi 159 CIR 2; DIR 9
The brothers Guilio and Luigi are also mentioned in the Goering Report (ALIU CIR 2)

Who, one wonders, are Ginori and Arturo Grassi?
Are they also brothers? What might be their relation to Giulio and Luigi?

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The site Grassistudio provides clarification:


By 1900, Prof. Luigi Grassi was already heading his own well-established gallery in Florence, Italy, having earlier collaborated with his uncle Costantini, a dealer active there since the 1860s.  As a young man, however, Luigi had been trained at the Rome Academy and actually began his career as a paintings restorer at the Uffizi....


 “Luigi Grassi and Sons” became a requisite stop for any connoisseur traveling to Florence during the 1920s and 30s:...


After Luigi’s death in 1937, the gallery remained active until the early 1950s, managed by Prof. Grassi’s   two sons, Giulio and Arturo....



Several museums, particularly Detroit, effected important acquisitions through Arturo Grassi.

Arturo’s two sons, Luigi and Marco, both returned to Europe after their education in America. Luigi has remained in Florence as a private paintings dealer. Marco trained as a fine arts conservator, first, like his grandfather, at the Uffizi, and subsequently in Rome and Zurich. After initiating a private practice in Florence in the early 1960s, Marco served as visiting and consulting conservator to a number of important private collectors, among them H.H. Thyssen-Bornemisza in Lugano, and Norton Simon, in Pasadena. Since 1974, he has been active mostly in New York.


According to the above, the relations are:


Prof Luigi Grassi (d.1937) ==> sons Giulio and Arturo ==> sons Luigi and Marco.


(There doesn't seem to be any mention of a Ginori).


How to reconcile the ALIU Reports and this family tree?


links to SOURCES:
http://www.lootedart.com/web_images/pdf/aliu_index_0712.pdf
http://www.lootedart.com/MVI3RM469661
http://www.grassistudio.com/Grassi-Studio-News-and-Events-DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=20&lg=en


Other References:

Dorotheum Sales from 1938-1945

Dorotheum: Purchases In Netherlands And Belgium. NARA https://www.fold3.com/image/269977839

Dorotheumsankäufe 1938 - 1945

(see site archive and lootedart for downloadable PDF)

Inv. Nr. Objekt

59.297 Gemälde, unbekannter Maler, Porträt Johann III. Sobieski, Öl/Lwd.,

Rahmen 115 x 94 cm

59.766 Zusammenlegspiel „Quodlibet“, Biedermeier, unter Glas, in Originalkarton

39,5 x 49,3 cm

60.181 Gemälde, Hans Canon, Die Fischverkäuferin, 1860, sign. u. dat., Öl/Lwd.,

Rahmen 158 x 126 cm

60.183 Porzellanschüssel, oval, Gitterrand bemalt mit roter Rocailleverzierung,

im Spiegel bunter Streublumendekor, Blaumarke, Mitte 18. Jh.

60.185 Porzellan, Schale mit Untertasse, überhöhter Schlangenhenkel, Darstellung

vorne: Danae und der Goldregen, sonst Goldplättchendekor auf weißem

Grund, Tasse innen vergoldet, Wien, Blaumarke, Jahresstempel 1815,

Höhe 9,8 cm

60.186 Porzellangruppe, bemalt, Kavalier auf Schlittschuhen reicht einer neben

ihm sitzenden Dame einen Schlittschuh, Wien, Blaumarke, Mitte 18. Jh.,

Höhe 12,5 cm

OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit Reports 1945-1946: Guide to Online PDFs and Searchable Texts - Part 1

OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit: Where (Online) to Find All of the Reports Published from 1945-1946

This is the first part in a multi-part survey of available online resources for consulting and searching the Art Looting Investigation Unit Reports in English.
(Unfortunately, we were not able to locate translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian or Russian. If you know of a resource that has translated the ALIU Reports and Red Flag Name list into languages other than English, please add in the comments.)

Status August 2017: The ALIU reports are held by NARA. Online researchers can find pieces of the ALIU Reports on a variety of sites - LootedArt.com, NARA, Fold3, Loyola, EHRI and dfs.ny.gov, but, at present, there does not seem to be one place where ALL of the contents can be downloaded and viewed both in photographs of the original report and in searchable and machine-readable text.

Looted art databases: Adolf Weinmüller

Sale records from Nazi-era auction house Adolf Weinmüller, which trafficked in art looted from Jewish owners, are available online at Germany’s Lost Art Database.

A member of the Nazi Party since 1931, Weinmüller absorbed two Jewish-run auction houses: Munich’s Hugo Helbing, and Vienna’s Samuel Kende. Weinmüller's clients included Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler’s private secretary.

In 1958, Weinmüller sold his business to Rudolf Neumeister. In 2013 a Neumeister employee discovered the catalogues, which it lent to the Zentral Institut für Kunstgeschichte (the central institute for art history) for publication on the Lost Art website.

Sarah Cascone, writing for Artnews on May 29, 2014, pointed out that "Given the large number of records, it seems plausible that the Weinmüller catalogues could lead investigators and Sunday provenance sleuths to the next Gurlitt looted art trove."

"Some 34,500 objects were sold by Weinmüller during this period in 33 Munich auctions and 18 Vienna sales."

These can now be consulted at http://www.lostart.de/Webs/EN/LostArt/Index.html%3bjsessionid=F952AF9A3892DCD735351DEF55CF8946.m0

Article from Artnews by Sarah Cascone, "Now You Can Browse Nazi Auction Catalogues for Looted Art Sales" published May 29, 2014