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Oct 10, 2024
Austrian Advisory Board Recommended That Albertina Restitute Franz Seraph von Lenbach Richard Wagner Inv. no. 38637 to Parlagi
https://provenienzforschung.gv.at/beiratsbeschluesse/Parlagi_Adalbert_2022-03-30_english.pdf
[unofficial translation]
In accordance with Section 3 of the Federal Law on the Restitution of Art Objects from Austrian Federal Museums and Collections (Art Restitution Act), Federal Law Gazette, BGBl. I No. 181/1998 as amended by BGBl. I No. 117/2009, at its meeting on 30 March 2022, the Art Restitution Advisory Board unanimously adopted the following
DECISION
It is recommended to the Federal Minister of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport that the chalk drawing listed in the Commission for Provenance Research dossier “Adalbert Parlagi” (03/2022)
Franz Seraph von Lenbach
Richard Wagner
Inv. no. 38637
be transferred from the Albertina to the legal successors causa mortis of Adalbert Parlagi.
Oct 5, 2022
If artworks could speak they would tell you what Nazis did to these art collectors
"Dr Lillie has explained the Kafkaesque system for the confiscation of goods, which usually worked like this. When a Jew applied to emigrate, in theory only 25% of his goods went to the State. An inventory was submitted and the Zentralstelle für Denkmalschutz decided which works of art were of national importance and these were “made secure”, ie; confiscated. It was rare, however, for what was left to be reunited with the owner, who had usually already fled to an unknown destination. Instead, it sat in Nazi-owned warehouses, which sold the goods to pay the “storage charges” that the owner obviously could not cover."
- A portrait, person by person, item by item, of a society wiped out
Anna Somers Cocks, 1 July 2004 The Art Newspaper, Book review of Sophie Lillie's Was Einmal War
Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten, Kunstsammlungen Wiens (Czernin Verlag, Vienna, 2003) 1,440 pp, 354 b/w ills, €69 (hb), ISBN 3707600491
"This important book gives a full documentation for the Jewish art collectors of Vienna whose goods and lives were targeted by the Nazis"
Austrian Jewish art collectors who were dispossessed by the Nazis
Leon and Marianne Abramowicz,
Bernhard Altmann,
Hans and Helene Amon,
Otto and Clara Anninger,
Gustav Arens,
Fritz and Anna Unger,
Felix and Lise Haas,
Carl and Rosa Askonas,
Stefan Auspitz,
Theodor and Angela Auspitz-Artenegg,
Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt,
Richard and Paula Beer-Hofmann,
Ernst and Irma Benedikt,
Ludwig Bettelheim-Gabillon,
Rudolf and Martha Bittmann,
Josef and Gusti Blauhorn,
Hugo and Malvine Blitz,
Wilhelm and Gertrude Blitz,
Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer,
Victor and Alice Blum,
Oscar Bondy (fled to Switzerland, died in NY in 1944)
Julius and Paula Breuer,
Otto and Lilly Brill,
Julius and Margarethe Buchstab,
Paul and Mary Cahn-Speyer,
Edwin and Caroline Czeczowiczka,
Arthur and Irma Czeczowiczka,
Georg Duschinsky,
Ernst and Fanny Egger,
Lothar and Eveline Egger-Möllwald,
Alfred and Valerie Eisler,
Hermann and Hortense Eissler,
Berta Morelli,
Hans and Lucie Engel,
Viktor and Emilie Ephrussi,Charlotte Epstein,
Rudolf Ernst,
Gertrud Felsöványi,
Adele Fischel,
Josef Freund,
Wilhelm Freund,
Hugo and Hilde Friedmann,
Hermann and Elsa Gall,
Paul and Martha Gerngross,
Robert and Frida Gerngross,
Emil Geyer,
David and Lilly Goldmann,
Philipp, Cornelia and Marie Gomperz,
Fritz and Lilly Grünbaum,
Karl and Stephanie Grünwald,
Rudolf and Marianne Gutmann,
Leo and Helene Hecht,
Valerie Heissfeld,
Wilhelm and Daisy Hellmann,
Franz and Marie Louise Herzberg,
Fritz and Gertrud Hirsch,
Ernst and Martha Hirsch,
Adolf and Hilda Hochstim,
Franz Josef and Vally Honig,
Josef Franz and Hermin Hupka,
Bruno Jellinek,
Otto and Fanny Kallir-Nirenstein,
Siegfried and Irma Kantor,
Emil and Helene Karpeles-Schenker,
Irma Ketschendorf,
Benedikt and Emilie Klapholz,
Norbert and Serafine Klinger,
Isidor and Camilla Kohn,
Nettie Königstein,
Felix Kornfeld
Gottlieb and Mathilde Kraus
Wilhelm Viktor and Marianne Krausz,
Hans Krüger,
Moriz and Elsa Kuffner,
Stephan Kuffner,
Wilhelm and Camilla Kuffner,
Adele Kulka,
Wally Kulka,
Oscar L. Ladner,
Richard and Anna Lanyi,
Georg and Hermine Lasus,
August and Serena Lederer,
Rosa Lemberger,
Mathilde Lieben,
Leon and Antonie Lilienfeld,
Markus and Melanie Lindenbaum
, Fritz and Helene Löhner
, Arthur and Marianne Lourié,
Wilhelm and Fanny Löw,
Oscar and Irma Löwenstein,
Alma Mahler-Werfel,
Fritz Mandl,
Stephan and Else Mautner,
Edmund and Adele Mendelsohn,
Franz Mendelsohn,
Alice Meyszner,
Max and Hertha Morgenstern,
Aranka Munk,
Oskar and Therese Neumann,
Richard and Alice Neumann,
Gabriele Oppenheimer,
Ignatz and Gisela Pick,
Moric and Irma Pick,
Otto and Katharina Pick,
Ernst and Gisela Pollack,
Albert Pollak,
Robert and Adele Pollak,
Leopold Popper-Podhragy,
Ernst and Ilse Popper-Podhragy,
Arthur and Agnes Prager,
Julius and Camilla Priester,
Leo Prister,
Alfred Quittner,
Amalie Redlich,
Anton and Marie Redlich,
Paul and Therese Regenstreif,
Oskar and Malvine Reichel,
Arnim and Rosa Reichmann,
Heinrich Reif,
Andreas and Luise Reisinger,
Franz and Anna Riedl,
Heinrich and Berta Rieger, (Heinrich died in Theresienstadt camp in 1942)
Max Roden and Sascha Kronburg,
Heinrich and Ella Rothberger,
Moriz Rothberger,
Alphonse and Clarice Rothschild,
Louis Rothschild,
Franz Rothschild,
Franz Ruhmann,
Emma Schiff-Suvero,
Gustav and Louise Schoenberg,
Ludwig and Gertrude Schüller,
Eduard and Gisela Schweinburg,
Arnold and Margit Löffler,
Elkan and Abraham Silberman,
Josef and Louise Simon,
Marianne Singer,
Alfred and Irmgard Sonnenfeld,
Valentine Springer,
Jenny Steiner,
Klara Steiner,
Paul and Nora Stiasny
, Georg Terramare and Erni Terrel,
Alfons and Marie Thorsch,
Siegfried and Antonia Trebitsch,
Alexander and Irma Weiner,
Leopold Weinstein
,Josefine Winter,
Paul Wittgenstein,
Fritz and Annie Wolff-Knize,
Frank and Mary Wooster,
Alexander and Luise Zemlinsky,
Paul Zsolnay,
Fritz and Trude Zuckerkandl
May 1, 2021
Names of persecuted Austrian Jewish collectors
How to verify the provenance texts of artworks for names that might indicate a history of Nazi looting or persecution?
There are many potential sources and lists.
In this post, we look an official Austrian report from 2008 that contains names of Austrian Jewish collectors whose art collections were plundered by the Nazis.
Mar 13, 2021
Nazi-looted art: names of plundered collectors to verify in provenances
Books such as Was einmal war. Die enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens by Sophie Lillie provide names of looted collectors
Mar 8, 2021
Heinrich Rieger v. The City of Cologne German Advisory Commission
Advisory Commission
on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property
Office: Seydelstr. 18, 10117 Berlin
Recommendation of the Advisory Commission in the case of the heirs of Heinrich Rieger v. The City of Cologne
Apr 23, 2020
The Holocaust and the art market: What does it mean to find Kieslinger in a provenance?
What does it mean to find the name Franz Kieslinger in a provenance?
(above "Acquired from Dr. Franz Kieslinger, expert at the Dorotheum, Vienna, for 40 Reichsmarks in 1939"
Franz Kieslinger was, first and foremost, a Nazi art looter.
His name in a provenance is a screaming Red Flag.
This does not mean, of course, that every artwork he touched was looted from Jewish collectors, but his name indicates a high probability of a serious problem.
In which art collections does his name appear today, in 2020?
1. Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria.
The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism lists six artworks at the Albertina Museum that passed through the hands of Nazi art looter Franz Kieslinger, all of which were acquired in 1939.
see: https://www.kunstdatenbank.at/search-for-objects/fulltext/kieslinger
Comments: First of all, it should be noted that the provenance for the Genelli featured above is pubished NOT on the Albertina Museum website but rather on the separate website of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism.
Below is a screenshot from 23 April 2020 of the artwork as it appears on the Albertina Museum website. There is no provenance listed at all. This means that any search - even an Advanced Search - on the Albertina website will not pick up the artwork if one searches "Provenienz" for Kieslinger.
Secondly one notes that none of the artworks listed as having Kieslinger in the provenance are from what the Nazis labeled "degenerate" artists like Schiele. This is rather surprising as Kieslinger was known to have been involved in the expropriation of at least one Jewish collector of these artworks.
This suggests that the listings, not only of the Albertina Museum but also possibly of even the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism might be incomplete.
Who can verify this and if necessary add the information?
Jan 18, 2020
UPCOMING RELEASES in HOLOCAUST ART HISTORY: Wiener Kunsthandel 1938–1945: Geschädigte und Profiteure
Gabriele Anderl, author of NS-Kunstraub in Österreich und die Folgen, has a new book coming out about the art market in Vienna from 1938-1945:
Wiener Kunsthandel 1938–1945: Geschädigte und Profiteure
Book Product Information
600 pages
Publisher: Studien Verlag
Publication Date: 30. April 2020
Language: Deutsch
ISBN-10: 370655223X
ISBN-13: 978-3706552233
Order on Amazon.de
The German version will be released in April 2020.
We hope to see an English translation soon.
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Dec 9, 2019
Nazi-era Provenance Research and Restitution Status, Albertina Museum Vienna
The Kunstdatenbank provides information about Nazi-era provenance research projects in Austria.
Below is a summary of the status of provenance research for the Albertina Museum, based on the information provided in the Kunstdatenbank in December 2019:source of information analysed in this table:
Kunstdatenbank for Albertina
https://www.kunstdatenbank.at/detail-view-museum/albertina
Albertina, Albertinaplatz 1;1010 Vienna
Additional information provided about the provenance research project at the Albertina Museum by the Kunstdatenbank on its website:
Provenance researcher: Mag.a Julia Eßl
In the Albertina, Maren Gröning carried out provenance research for the period 1938–1960 actively between 1998 and 2000 and as required between 2000 and 2009. During this time, 49 reports regarding 317 works were submitted to the Commission for Provenance Research. Of these, 163 objects were restituted, in addition to a collection of around 3,500 posters (as at October 2009) and the restitution of a further 34 objects was recommended by the Advisory Board pursuant to the Art Restitution Law, Federal Law Gazette 1998/181.
Mag. Julia Eßl and Dr. Pia Schölnberger (until August 2017) have been working as provenance researchers at the Albertina since spring 2011, on behalf of the Commission for Provenance Research. Their task is to build on the research already carried out at an intensified level, by examining all objects which came into the collection between 1933 and the present for their origins and previous owners. In dubious or contentious cases, dossiers are compiled which are subsequently submitted to the Art Restitution Advisory Board, whose task is to advise the Federal Minister of Education, the Arts and Culture on a possible restitution.
Due to the extension of the period to be investigated, the provenance researchers of the Albertina will carry out investigations into the purchases from the German art trade between 1933 and 1938, into all purchases after 1960 and into acquisitions of the library, and a general object autopsy in order to look for indications of provenance on the originals as well as a systematic revision of the entire holdings of the works of Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt.
(source: Kunstsdatenbank)
(source: Kunstsdatenbank)
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