"Definitely not a reliable or trustworthy source for cataloguing"
What does it mean to find Arthur Pfannstiel in a provenance or as the author of a reference?
Showing posts with label Red Flag Names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Flag Names. Show all posts
Oct 28, 2024
Dec 7, 2022
How to use information in the provenance texts of Nazi looted art that has been restituted to find other Nazi-looted artworks
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| This Nazi-looted painting was restituted in 2016. https://www.lostart.de/de/Verlust/526702 |
Often, when a painting is restituted, it is the conclusion of a long and arduous process of archival research to establish the itinerary of the painting and the different actors involved in its looting (or sale, or transfer, or translocation).
What happens if we take the NAMES that appear in the provenance AFTER an artwork has left the possession of the persecuted Jewish owner and plug them in to some powerful digital tools to check other provenance texts for their presence?
Could this application of digital tools provide clues that lead to other Nazi-looted artworks?
Mar 30, 2022
Biographies of people involved in the Nazi-looted art trade formerly published on Lostart whose urls no longer seem to work.
The German Lost Art Foundation published online the biographies of "Beteiligte Privatpersonen und Körperschaftern am NS-Kulturegutraub" which translates to "Private individuals and corporate bodies involved in the NS cultural property theft".
The content below has since disappeared from the internet. A few entries can now be found in the internet archive or, in modified form, on Proveana. Others appear to be lost.
Jan 26, 2021
Valentin or Buchholz in Provenance Texts of American Museums
Question for art provenance researchers. How many of these artworks display gaps in the provenance for the years 1933-1945?
Which artworks, if any, appear to have the most problematic provenances? Why?
Dec 15, 2020
Loebl in the Kleinberger archives
Network described in the 1946 OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) Final Report Red Flag List of Names: Ali (Allen) Loebl and Bruno Lohse
https://www.lootedart.com/MVI3RM469661
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The OSS ALIU Reports on Nazi looting networks in Europe put Allen Loebl at the center of a syndicate of art dealers trading Nazi looted art. Loebl appears in the Red Flag Name index and is mentioned in the Final report fourteen times. The ALIU investigators who drafted the Final Report specified that Loebl had close ties to Bruno Lohse, a notorious Nazi art plunderer.
At the very least, the mention of Loebl in a provenance from the Nazi era (1933-1945) should mobilise provenance researchers and Holocaust researchers to trace the full history of the artwork in question and to verify whether the artwork belonged to a Jewish collector or dealer who was persecuted when Hitler came to power.
In this context, the publication of the Kleinberger Archives represents a major step forward.
https://cdm16028.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll23/search/searchterm/loebl
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It was chiefly through LOEBL that LOHSE became familiar with the Paris art trade, and became acquainted with such other dealers and Victor MANDEL, PERDOUX and ENGEL, who operated as an informal syndicate. (See Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 3, "German Methods of Acquisition, " Dealers.)
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The Kleinberger archives are now online.
Searching is fast and easy. Results show all the mentions, as well as the artists and more.
Below is the result of a simple search for Loebl, (cousin of Kleinberger president Harry Sperling and a Red Flag Name for his involvement in selling Nazi looted art).
https://cdm16028.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll23/search/searchterm/loebl
The artists concerned by these transactions (according to the website) include:
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The Kleinberger Archives offer new possibilities for research.
Sperling deserves a serious investigative biography that takes into account his art dealing, smuggling, and intelligence-related activities, which are attested in numerous documents.
This new resource, which makes it possible to quickly search through the Kleinberger files, should help researchers who want to shed like on these transactions.
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