Showing posts with label art dealers in the Third Reich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art dealers in the Third Reich. Show all posts

May 24, 2018

Zinckgraf (or Zinkgraf) as a Nazi Era Red Flag

The Zinckgraf name appears 55 times in the Linz (Hitler) collection database, usually with little or no information about the former  owner,  This portrait of a man ((Linz no 0408) by Moritz vonSchwind, was delivered to the notorious Maria Almas-Dietrich.
Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf ( 1878-1954), played an important role in the Aryanization of the Jewish-owned Galerie Heinemann and the transfer of Jewish art collections to Nazi officials and other collectors