Starting from Probst and expanding out to see the other names that appeared together with Probst in provenances
Showing posts with label art market networks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art market networks. Show all posts
Aug 21, 2024
Art Market Network Analysis with Wikidata Sparql Queries and Beyond
What might replicable data pipeline from #Wikidata #KG Query to Data Frame to Network Visualisation of owners of artworks passing through a specific network look like?
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Perls Family Network-Red
Links to other owners-Blue
Jupyter Notebook in Google CoLabs
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What might replicable data pipeline from #Wikidata #KG Query to Data Frame to Network Visualisation of owners of artworks passing through a specific network look like?
In the example below, we look at 27 artworks that passed through one of the members of the Perls art dealing dynasty or one of their companies.
The starting point is a Wikdata Query to retrieve the artworks known to have been owned by one of the Perls family, as well as the other known owners of the same artworks.
The information is retrieved from Wikidata, loaded into a Data Frame, then visualised with MatPlotLib.
The code is saved in a Jupyter Notebook and Shared publicly via Google Colab.
Anyone with a Google Account should be able to run the code simply by clicking on the arrows to the left of each code cell.
Try it and let me know if it works.
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1f7V2SMzxkCmt2lbCS3l4ulotqUGghNAm#scrollTo=0sPcg-gWZOo3
Perls Family Network-Red
Links to other owners-Blue
Jupyter Notebook in Google CoLabs
Jul 10, 2024
DATASET: Art Provenances AFTER Restitution of Looted Art
Claims for Nazi-looted art or duress sales sometimes result in restitution or settlement agreements which cause the restituted artwork to be sold at auction.
Below are artworks whose provenance, as published by Christie's auction house, mentions a restitution or settlement agreement with the heir of a victim of Nazi persecution.
These provenance texts provide valuable information to art historians and Holocaust researchers, offering insights into the art market networks that dealt in Holocaust-linked artworks between the time they left the possession of the persecuted Jewish collectors and the time they were restituted.
(original source of information: Christie's auction website)
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Jun 25, 2024
Graupe in provenance texts of American museums
The Paul Graupe auction house was a key player in sales of Jewish art collections during the Nazi-era.
In this post, we look at a selection of 88 artworks in American museums that mention "Graupe" in the provenance text.
Some texts refer to sales prior to 1933. Some texts specify that an artwork was NOT sold at Graupe's. And some texts clearly refer to sales at Graupe's during the Nazi era. Some texts are factual while others contain speculative language.
Holocaust victims in the provenances include:
- Friedrich Gutmann (murdered)
- Max Silberberg (murdered)
- Rosa Oppenheimer (murdered)
Where possible, post-Graupe dealers and owners are highlighted in yellow.
Jan 16, 2024
Tracking Looted Art with Knowledge Graphs: A Wikidata Case Study
Art looting networks operate on many levels, many of them hidden, over long periods of time. The native graph function of Wikidata enhanced by federated queries can help track them.
Tracking Looted Art with Graphs
April 9, 2022, Laurel Zuckerman
Graphs and Networks in the Humanities 2022 Technologies, Models, Analyses, and Visualizations
6th International Conference, 3. – 4. February 2022, Online
The 6th international conference on Graphs and Networks in the Humanities took place from Thursday 3. February to Friday 4. February 2022 online, co-organized by scholars from the Huygens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, Vienna University, University of Leipzig, and the University Ca’ Foscari Venice
Paper: Tracking Looted Art with Graphs: A Case Study
See also:
The Error is the Message: Extracting Insights from Deceptive Data for Nazi looted art
VIDEO:
Nov 30, 2022
Hugelshofer in the Kleinberger archives
Hugelshofer mentioned in the Kleinberger archives after 1932
(continued from Walter Hugelshofer in provenances)
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Nov 29, 2021
Swiss Art Dealers Association connections
Art Historians and Provenance Researchers might find the history of the famed Swiss Art Trading Association to be an interesting source of study
1. The OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit had this to say about Dr. Willi Raeber in 1946 when they placed him on the Red Flag List of Names.
"Raeber, Dr Willi. Basle, St Albans Anlage 68. Prominent art dealer. Vice president of the Swiss syndicate of art dealers and its most active member. Involved in various looted art transactions. Possessed certain paintings on the Allied List. Contact of Hofer and Wuester."
The ALIU also specified that Raeber was involved in trafficking Courbet's Woman Asleep At Table which the Nazi looting organisation known as the E.R.R. had seized from the Paul Rosenberg collection:
Truessel, Dr Fritz. Bern, Beautusstrasse 32. Was offered the Matisse Open Window confiscated by the ERR from the Paul Rosenberg Collection, by Martin. Purchased the Courbet, Woman Asleep At Table confiscated from the Paul Rosenberg collection by the ERR. This painting was imported into Switzerland in April 1942 by German diplomatic bag, given by Wendland to Fischer for sale, then passed into the hands of Willi Raeber and finally to Truessel, Max Stoecklin was also involved.
2. Gottfried Tanner was also put on the ALIU Red Flag list. The investigators described his activities as follows:
Tanner. Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse 39. President of the Federation of Swiss Art Dealers. Involved in the traffic of looted works of art having sold a Renoir, Girl with a Fishing Net, confiscated by the ERR from the Paul Rosenberg Collection. The painting was received by Tanner from Neupert of Zurich. May have other looted objects. Possibly involved in the disposal in Switzerland of the two paintings by Corot confiscated by the Germans from the Bennheim firm in Paris in 1940, and most recently held by Frau Veraguth of Zurich.
3. Peter Nathan, who was born only in 1925, was not on the ALIU Red Flag list, unlike his father, and business partner, Fritz Nathan, about whom the ALIU wrote:
Nathan, Dr Fritz. St Gallen, Rorschacherstrasse 25. German refugee art dealer in Switzerland since 1935. Adviser to Buehrle, and intermediary between Fischer, Hofer and Buehrle. Has denied knowledge that paintings and drawings acquired by Buehrle from Fischer were looted; all evidence to the contrary.
(Fritz Nathan has been a frequent topic here because of the simply unbelievable number of misspellings, mistranscriptions, miscodings, data errors, odd redirects and other improbable shannanigans surrounding his digital records, especially where Emil Bührle is concerned).
4. As for Eberhard Kornfeld, neither he nor his partner Klipstein were mentioned by the ALIU. However....
Kornfeld is probably best known these days as the dealer whose cash payment to Cornelius Gurlitt (son of Hitler's dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt) was discovered on a train between Switzerland and Germany, setting off the investigation that led to the (still ongoing) Gurlitt scandal.
Kornfeld also has attracted media attention for his role in several claims concerning demands for restitution of Nazi-looted art
"Kornfeld told Swiss Public Television, SRF, that he paid Gurlitt in cash or by cheque for the artworks he sold."
"he travelled to Zurich every four to six weeks and fetched his €9,000 to pay his living costs. He had no job. He lived off the sales of works in this collection."
"It was during one of those trips that the elderly recluse first drew the attention of the German customs authorities. In a fast train from Zurich to Munich on Sept. 22, 2010, they searched him to find €9,000 in cash – below the limit of €10,000, but enough to arouse suspicion."
Kornfeld served as president of the Swiss Art Trading Association for 37 years (1959-1996) (with Peter Nathan as vice-president).
4. Walter Feilchenfeldt, also known as Walter Feichenfeldt Jr to distinguish him from his father, the art dealer of the same name, took over from 1997 until 2007 with Doris Ammann as vice-president .
Jan 14, 2020
Kunsthaus Zürich, provenance includes "Koetser"
(see Art Dealers: The Many Names of Koetser and Explorations in Digital Art History: a look at KOETSER)
In this post we look at provenances that mention "Koetser" in the Kunsthaus Zürich.
(photo: Flood with Noah's Ark, Inv Nbr KS 4)
Sep 30, 2019
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.
Aug 3, 2019
What does it mean to find Cailleux in art provenance research?
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| Sleep Jean Bernard Restout c. 1771 Cleveland Museum of Art http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1963.502 |
What does it mean to find the name "Cailleux" in a Nazi-era provenance, an artwork listed by a museum on NEPIP (the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal) or an artwork whose provenance shows a gap or uncertainty for the years 1933-1945?
In this series of posts, we will explore the name "Cailleux" where it appears in art provenances throughout the world.
Apr 27, 2019
Art Market Networks of Adolf Wuester during the Nazi occupation of Paris
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| The ALIU mentioned these people, places and organisations in its entry for Adolf Wuester in the 1946 Final Report |
1. All the contacts mentioned in the ALIU entry for Wuester, as in the above chart.
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2. All the Red Flag entries that mention Wuester in the ALIU list (below)
3. Connections to an organisation (below, all the ALIU Red Flag entries that mention the ERR)
4. Or to a place... (below, 416 Red Flag entries mention Paris )
5. Or to other art dealer or art market networks (Wuester, Lohse, ERR, Rochlitz..)
ALIU Red Flag list entry for Adolf Wuester
Wuester, Adolf. Bernau, Bavaria Bonn Schloesel. Painter and amateur dealer, long-time pre-war resident of Paris. Chief agent in France for acquisition of works of art for Ribbentrop. Intimate contactws with von Behr and Lohse. Acted as expert for ERR on French 19th century painting. Appointed art adviser to the German Embassy on 16 July 1942, with the rank of Consul. Involved in two exchanges with the ERR. With Rochlitz, probably the leading intermediary for German official buyers in the Paris art market. Close contact of Bornheim, Dietrich, Bammann (among German dealers); Martin, Rademacher, Kuetgens and Goepel (among German museum buyers). Supplied with works of art primarily by Schoeller, Mandl, Leegenhoek, Raphael Gerard and Hotel Drouot. Close contact of Goetz, Rochlitz, Schoeller, Pfannstiel, Avogli-Trotti and the Duc de Trevise. Travelled in Switzerland, Sweden and Spain, purchasing works of art. Extradition requested by French Government.
ALIU Red Flag Names whose entries mention Wuester
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