Walter Hugelshofer in provenances (update ongoing)

 In this post, we begin to gather information about Walter Hugelshofer, a Swiss art historian.

(above: Saint Florian at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, 

1. Hugelshofer mentioned in relation to selected artworks in US museums

2. Hugelshofer mentioned in relation to auctions

3. Hugelshofer mentioned in the Kleinberger archives

4. Hugelshofer mentioned in association with Julius Böhler archives

Nazi looted art: deception by provenance authors

The scale of deceptive practices by art market professionals concerning Holocaust-related looted art is under-appreciated.

The web of complicity is tough to break through, and it is rather depressing to even try. 

However, inspired by recent events, we will in this next series of posts, attempt to highlight of few of the tricks used by various art market actors to disguise what they clearly suspect to be illicit origins.

In this first post, we revisit the El Greco, Portrait of a Gentleman, that was part of the Julius Priester collection before the Holocaust. 

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Pinakos, Heinemann, de Hauke in GPI Public Collections

The Getty Provenance Index maintains a database of artworks from public collections, some of which have provenances.

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Otto Wertheimer Galerie Les Tourettes

Otto Wertheimer was an art dealer who owned Galerie Les Tourettes.

(photo: Hercules and the Lion, Boston Museum of Fine Arts)

The (always informative) RKD says Otto Wertheimer was born about 1878 in Germany and died in 1972 or 73 in Paris. It lists 41 artworks (see below) that belonged to Wertheimer.