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| https://www.lootedart.com/search/artwork.php?artworkID=1195 | The Path to the Old Ferry at By, 1880 | Oil on canvas | Bequeathed by Montague Shearman through the Contemporary Art Society 1940 | Purchased from the artist 21 June 1882 by Durand-Ruel, Paris.Exhibited in Tableaux de Sisley, Durand-Ruel, Paris, February-March 1930 (32) as lent by M. Chartol. Galerie Zak, Paris.*Redfern Gallery,† London.*Montague Shearman and Sir Rex de C. Nan Kivell, London.*Montague Shearman, London.W. J. Dorflinger, New York, 25 April 1901.Reacquired by Durand-Ruel, Paris, 31 May 1927.A. Chartol, Paris, 20 October 1928.Additional Information† Rex de C. Nan Kivell, who ran the Redfern, recalled acquiring the painting from the Galerie Zak and the subsequent joint ownership with Shearman.If you can provide any information about the Provenance of this object, please contact the address below. Exhibitions Tableaux de Sisley, Durand-Ruel, Paris, February-March 1930 (32) Source of Information National Museum Directors' Conference LocationTate Gallery LondonEnglandTel: +44 (0)20 7887 8725ContactSharon PageHead of SecretariatTel: +44 (0)20 7887 8667Fax: +44 (0)20 7887 8938Terms & Conditions |
| https://www.lootedart.com/search/artwork.php?artworkID=4695 | Boats on the Seine | Oil on canvas on panel | 37.2 x 44.3 cm | Matthiesen Gallery, London, from whom acquired by Samuel Courtauld in March 1947.Richard Samson, Hamburg (?).Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947).Courtauld Institute Gallery, 1948.Additional InformationIf you can provide any information about theProvenanceof this object, please contact the address below.Source of InformationNational Museum Directors' Conference Location Courtauld Institute Gallery London WC2R 0RNEnglandEmail: ernst.vegelin@courtauld.ac.ukContactErnst Vegelin van ClaerbergenSenior CuratorTel: +44 (0)207 848 2538/2590<ernst.vegelin@courtauld.ac.ukTerms & Conditions |
| https://www.lootedart.com/search/artwork.php?artworkID=4907 | Landscape with a Stack of Straw | Oil on canvas | 39 x 55 cm | Purchased by Dr Ferenc Chorin (rightful owner). (1) Auctioned at the Auction at the Ernst Museum, Budapest, LII. No. 227. Pl. XXVI.Collection of Ödön Faragó, Budapest. Additional Information Dr. Ferenc Chorin (who was of Jewish descent) was a leading figure in the world of Hungarian finance capital. He was an industrialist and banker, and a key member of Hungary's National Association of Industrialists (GYOSZ). He kept a part of his collection in a bank, with the result that it was carried off to the Soviet Union by the Soviet Economic Officers' Commission. But Chorin belonged among those wealthy Jews who were able to survive the Holocaust by making over their industrial interests to the Germans in 1944, following the German occupation of Hungary in March of that year. His "agreement", which was made under duress, obviously lost its validity with the victory of the Allied forces. The other part of Chorin's collection, the part not deposited with a bank, was seized as Jewish property, and taken to the West by Szálasi's Arrow-Cross (Hungarian Nazi) government. These treasures were later returned to Hungary, and the family was able to recover them.Chorin was not an art collector in the strict sense of the term. The richness of his collection lay in its quality. He purchased selected objects in order to make a pleasant home, one in keeping with his high social position. His residence was at Andrássy út 114., in Budapest.” See Sacco di Budapest, p 168.This is one of the objects taken from the bank vault.If you can provide any information about this object, please contact the address below.Reference Material(1) A köztulajdonba vett mûkincsek kiállítása (First Exhibition of Art Works Taken into Public Ownership). Catalogue by Kálmán Pogány. Hall of Exhibitions (Mûcsarnok), Budapest.*Francia mûvészeti alkotások kiállítása Magyar magántualjdonból (Exhibition of French Art Works in Private Hands). Organized by E. Petrovics, text by E. Petrovics and Count Gyula Batthvány, introduced by Francois Gachot. The Countess Éva Almásy-Teleki Institute of Art, Budapest.**Hungarian National Archives, XIX-J-12-*425/1947 and 512/1947Exhibitions**The Countess Éva Almásy-Teleki Institute of Art, Budapest, 1940. No. 210*Hall of Exhibitions (Mûcsarnok), Budapest, 1919. Room VI. No. 27Source of InformationMravik, László, The “Sacco di Budapest” and the Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949 (Works of art missing from Hungary as a result of the Second World War), Hungarian National Gallery publications, Budapest 1998.ContactAgnes PeresztegiSoffer Avocats4, rue Quentin Bauchart75008 ParisFranceEmail: agnes@peresztegi.comTerms & Conditions |
| https://www.lootedart.com/search/artwork.php?artworkID=4908 | Little Church in Bretagne | Oil on wood | 26 x 35 cm | Dr Ferenc Chorin (rightful owner). (1)Collection of Alfred Kohner, Budapest.H. O. Miethke collection, Vienna.Auctioned at the Auction at the Ernst Museum, Budapest, XL VIII, 1934. 82, Plate XV.Additional InformationDr. Ferenc Chorin (who was of Jewish descent) was a leading figure in the world of Hungarian finance capital. He was an industrialist and banker, and a key member of Hungary's National Association of Industrialists (GYOSZ). He kept a part of his collection in a bank, with the result that it was carried off to the Soviet Union by the Soviet Economic Officers' Commission. But Chorin belonged among those wealthy Jews who were able to survive the Holocaust by making over their industrial interests to the Germans in 1944, following the German occupation of Hungary in March of that year. His "agreement", which was made under duress, obviously lost its validity with the victory of the Allied forces. The other part of Chorin's collection, the part not deposited with a bank, was seized as Jewish property, and taken to the West by Szálasi's Arrow-Cross (Hungarian Nazi) government. These treasures were later returned to Hungary, and the family was able to recover them.Chorin was not an art collector in the strict sense of the term. The richness of his collection lay in its quality. He purchased selected objects in order to make a pleasant home, one in keeping with his high social position. His residence was at Andrássy út 114., in Budapest.” See Sacco di Budapest, p 168.This is one of the objects taken from the bank vault.If you can provide any information about this object, please contact the address below.Reference Material(1) A köztulajdonba vett mûkincsek kiállítása (First Exhibition of Art Works Taken into Public Ownership). Catalogue by Kálmán Pogány. Hall of Exhibitions (Mûcsarnok), Budapest.*Hungarian National Archives, XIX-J-12-*425/1947 and 512/1947Exhibitions*Hall of Exhibitions (Mûcsarnok), Budapest 1919. Room IV. 1, p.43Source of InformationMravik, László, The “Sacco di Budapest” and the Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949 (Works of art missing from Hungary as a result of the Second World War), Hungarian National Gallery publications, Budapest 1998.ContactAgnes PeresztegiSoffer Avocats4, rue Quentin Bauchart75008 ParisFranceEmail: agnes@peresztegi.comTerms & Conditions |
| https://www.lootedart.com/search/artwork.php?artworkID=5973 | Riverside near the Seine | Oil on canvas | 66 x 81 cm (or 64 x 80 cm) | Smuggled out of Hungary by Mme. István Herzog née Ilona Kiss. (1)Inherited by István Herzog.Baron Mór Lipót Herzog (rightful owner).A. Rosenberg Père collection, Paris.Vignier collection, Paris.Additional Information“The collection of Baron Mór Lipót Herzog was for the most part inherited by his three children: Mme Alfonz Weiss (née Erzsébet Herzog), András Herzog and István Herzog. A few objects were left to his sister, Mme Sándor Sváb (née Irén Herzog). Part of the collection (which contained about 1500-2500 important pieces in addition to valuable furniture, including books) was sequestrated in 1944. It was then transported to Germany, from where most items were later returned and given back to the owners. However, another part of the collection was never seen again. According to indications, some items were deposited, under different names, with a bank (or banks) subsequently emptied by Soviet troops. According to File No. 17.507/1946 at the Budapest Court of Wards, the Herzog family had a strongroom compartment at the Hungarian Discount and Exchange Bank. It is not yet established who the depositing person was and what the compartment contained. The involvement of the Budapest Court of Guardians in the matter suggests that András Herzog may have been the depositor, since during the period in question (1939-49) his heirs were all under age. Advocate Dr. Emil Oppler (Budapest, V. Széchenyi u. 14.), who rendered important services to the Herzogs, undertook legal representation of members of the family. He worked with Associate Judge Szomolányi, of the Court of Wards, whose widow, as late as 1981, owned a work by Madarász (“The Mourning of László Hunyadi”, a sketch) given to Szomolányi by the Herzog family.Part of the Herzog collection had been placed by the owners in the reputedly bomb-proof cellars of the Labor Company at Budafok, outside Budapest. The hidden works were found by the State Security Service, then under the control of the notorious Péter Hain, an Arrow-Cross man. In defiance of Hungarian laws at the time, the State Security Service did not report the finding, but took it to the Hotel Majestic, the headquarters of the Eichmann Sonderkommando.The material which remained was handed over to the Museum of Fine Arts for safekeeping.The paintings and sculptures were taken away from the Herzog palace on Andrássy út in 1944. The carpets and some of the furniture were stolen from the second floor of the building by Arrow-Cross men. However, the furniture on the first floor remained in situ. Some of it was destroyed or damaged beyond repair by a bomb, but some survived undamaged and remained where it was. (A list of the objects destroyed is extant.) According to contemporary reports, these surviving objects were carried away by Soviet soldiers, in January and February 1945. Taking into account the size of the items of furniture, theft by individuals can be ruled out. Organized removal must be supposed.” See Sacco di Budapest, p 305. If you can provide any information about this object, please contact the address below.Reference Material(1) Baldass, L. “Herzog báró gyûjteménye” (Baron Herzog’s Collection). In: Magyar Mûvészet, III, 1927. 203Francia mûveszéti alkotások kiállítáds Magyar magántulajdonból(Exhibition of French Art Works in Private Hands). Organized by E. Petrovicstext by E. Petrovics and Count Gyula Batthyány, introduced by Francois Gachot. The Countess Éva Almásy-Teleki Institute of Art, Budapest.*Hungarian National Archives, K 643-1944Hungarian National Archives, XIX-J-12-364/1947Hungarian National Archives, XIX-J-12-833/1947Hungarian National Archives, XIX-I-13, 79/1949ExhibitionsHA, 1919. Rm. 6 No 19*The Countess Éva Almásy-Teleki Institute of Art, Budapest, 1940Source of InformationMravik, László, The “Sacco di Budapest” and the Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949 (Works of art missing from Hungary as a result of the Second World War), Hungarian National Gallery publications, Budapest 1998.ContactAgnes PeresztegiSoffer Avocats4, rue Quentin Bauchart75008 ParisFranceEmail: agnes@peresztegi.comTerms & Conditions |
| https://www.lootedart.com/search/artwork.php?artworkID=7566 | Spring Landscape | Oil | 54 x 74 cm | Hans Wendland, German art dealer (?).Confiscated by the ERR from the Georges Bernheim Collection, Paris.Georges Bernheim Collection (rightful owner).Gustav Rochlitz, Paris art dealer, acquired in an exchange with the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), 3 March 1941, Paris.Additional InformationSpring Landscape was one of eleven confiscated modern paintings exchanged with the art dealer Rochlitz for two Old Master paintings, chosen by Göring for his collection. The exchange, made on 3 March 1941 by the ERR on Göring’s behalf and with his approval, was one of several made during the course of 1941-1943. In this transaction, Rochlitz was offered a choice of confiscated modern paintings held at the Jeu de Paume in exchange for a painting attributed to Titian and a Weenix Göring wished to acquire. The Old Master paintings were selected from photographs sent to Göring in Berlin by Bruno Lohse of the ERR who acted as his agent in Paris. Göring visited the Jeu de Paume personally to approve Rochlitz’s selection. The Titian and Weenix were jointly owned by Birtchansky, Rochlitz, and Wendland. Wendland later bought out Birtchansky’s interest and received six of the eleven modern paintings as a result.Approximately 700 works of art, which had been confiscated by the ERR in France were selected for Hermann Göring’s private art collection. The standard procedure for the selection of objects involved Göring’s personal visit to the Jeu de Paume in Paris where he chose from among the works of art which had been placed on display there by the ERR staff. In most instances, the objects were packed on Göring’s private train and shipped from Paris to Berlin between 8 February 1941 and 24 November 1942.The ERR was a special unit of the German Foreign Political Office under Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg whose primary function was the looting and confiscation of so-called “ownerless” Jewish art collections. Approximately 21,903 objects from 203 collections are believed to have been seized by the ERR in France.The ERR conducted twenty-eight formal exchanges of confiscated paintings with six dealers between February 1941 and November 1943. In most of the cases, the paintings were French paintings of the late 19th and 20th century, which were exchanged for Old Master paintings. Transportation of confiscated Impressionist and 20th century paintings to Germany was forbidden, as these were formally regarded as Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) by the Nazis. Instead, the ERR used these highly saleable paintings in the interest of commercial exploitation or to obtain Old Master and other paintings. Many of the exchanged paintings were smuggled to Switzerland from where they were sold into private collections.The information provided was taken from a 1945 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Report. The object may since have been restituted to its rightful owner and its current location might be known.If you can provide further information about the post-warProvenanceof this object, please contact the Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945.Source of InformationActivity of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in France (Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 1). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, APO 413, US Army, 15 August 1945The Göring Collection (Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 2). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, US Army, September 1945Gustav Rochlitz (Detailed Interrogation Report No. 4). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, US Army, August 1945ContactCentral Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-194576 Gloucester PlaceLondonW1U 6HJEnglandTel: +44 (0)20 7487 3401Email: info@lootedart.comhttps://www.lootedart.comTerms & Conditions |
| https://www.lootedart.com/search/artwork.php?artworkID=7572 | River Scene | Oil | Status: The object is looted. Its current location is unknown. | Confiscated by the ERR from unknown collection, Paris.Confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) from the Rothschild Collection, most likely between June and mid-November 1940, Paris.Gustav Rochlitz, Paris art dealer, received in an exchange with the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), 17 March 1941, Paris.Additional InformationRiver Scene was appraised at 35,000 francs according to ERR lists compiled by Hermann Göring’s chief appraiser, Dr Jacques Beltrand.The art dealer Gustav Rochlitz received River Scene along with six other paintings in an exchange with the ERR for two Old Master paintings.This was the third of eighteen formal exchanges of artwork undertaken by the ERR for Hermann Göring.Approximately 700 works of art, which had been confiscated by the ERR in France were selected for Hermann Göring’s private art collection. The standard procedure for the selection of objects involved Göring’s personal visit to the Jeu de Paume in Paris where he chose from among the works of art which had been placed on display there by the ERR staff. In most instances, the objects were packed on Göring’s private train and shipped from Paris to Berlin between 8 February 1941 and 24 November 1942.The ERR was a special unit of the German Foreign Political Office under Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg whose primary function was the looting and confiscation of so-called “ownerless” Jewish art collections. Approximately 21,903 objects from 203 collections are believed to have been seized by the ERR in France.The ERR conducted twenty-eight formal exchanges of confiscated paintings with six dealers between February 1941 and November 1943. In most of the cases, the paintings were French paintings of the late 19th and 20th century, which were exchanged for Old Master paintings. Transportation of confiscated Impressionist and 20th century paintings to Germany was forbidden, as these were formally regarded as Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) by the Nazis. Instead, the ERR used these highly saleable paintings in the interest of commercial exploitation or to obtain Old Master and other paintings. Many of the exchanged paintings were smuggled to Switzerland from where they were sold into private collections.The information provided was taken from a 1945 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Report. The object may since have been restituted to its rightful owner and its current location might be known.If you can provide further information about the post-warProvenanceof this object, please contact the Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945.Source of InformationActivity of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in France (Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 1). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, APO 413, US Army, 15 August 1945The Göring Collection (Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 2). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, US Army, September 1945Gustav Rochlitz (Detailed Interrogation Report No. 4). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, US Army, August 1945ContactCentral Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-194576 Gloucester PlaceLondonW1U 6HJEnglandTel: +44 (0)20 7487 3401Email: info@lootedart.comhttps://www.lootedart.comTerms & Conditions |
| https://www.lootedart.com/search/artwork.php?artworkID=7577 | Winter Landscape | Oil | 39 x 56 cm | Confiscated by the ERR from unknown collection, Paris. Arthur Pfannstiel, Paris painter and art dealer, received from an exchange with the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), 17 March 1941, Paris.Additional InformationWinter Landscape was appraised at 35,000 francs at the time of the exchange. This appraisal was probably provided by Dr Jacques Beltrand who was Hermann Göring’s official appraiser on all of the exchanges undertaken by the ERR in Paris on behalf of Göring. Arthur Pfannstiel, a German citizen, received Winter Landscape along with Girl with a Guitar by Laurencin, in an exchange with the ERR for Farmers Gambling by Cornelius Bega. Pfannstiel was also a confidential assistant of Baron Kurt von Behr, director of the ERR Paris Kunststab. This is one of only two exchanges of ERR confiscated artwork personally conducted by von Behr.The exchange is thought to have been the fourth of eighteen formal exchanges of artwork undertaken by the ERR on behalf of Hermann Göring.Approximately 700 works of art, which had been confiscated by the ERR in France were selected for Hermann Göring’s private art collection. The standard procedure for the selection of objects involved Göring’s personal visit to the Jeu de Paume in Paris where he chose from among the works of art which had been placed on display there by the ERR staff. In most instances, the objects were packed on Göring’s private train and shipped from Paris to Berlin between 8 February 1941 and 24 November 1942.The ERR was a special unit of the German Foreign Political Office under Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg whose primary function was the looting and confiscation of so-called “ownerless” Jewish art collections. Approximately 21,903 objects from 203 collections are believed to have been seized by the ERR in France.The ERR conducted twenty-eight formal exchanges of confiscated paintings with six dealers between February 1941 and November 1943. In most of the cases, the paintings were French paintings of the late 19th and 20th century, which were exchanged for Old Master paintings. Transportation of confiscated Impressionist and 20th century paintings to Germany was forbidden, as these were formally regarded as Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) by the Nazis. Instead, the ERR used these highly saleable paintings in the interest of commercial exploitation or to obtain Old Master and other paintings. Many of the exchanged paintings were smuggled to Switzerland from where they were sold into private collections.The information provided was taken from a 1945 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Report. The object may since have been restituted to its rightful owner and its current location might be known.If you can provide further information about the post-warProvenanceof this object, please contact the Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945.Source of InformationActivity of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in France (Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 1). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, APO 413, US Army, 15 August 1945.The Göring Collection (Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 2). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, US Army, September 1945.ContactCentral Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-194576 Gloucester PlaceLondonW1U 6HJEnglandTel: +44 (0)20 7487 3401Email: info@lootedart.comhttps://www.lootedart.comTerms & Conditions |
| https://www.lootedart.com/search/artwork.php?artworkID=7606 | Spring Landscape | Oil | 45 x 56 cm | Klein, Mlle Levy, Paul Petrides, and Isidor Rosner, Paris art dealers, possibly acquired from Gustav Rochlitz.Confiscated by the ERR from unknown collection, Paris. Gustav Rochlitz, Paris art dealer, received in an exchange with the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), 9 July 1941, Paris.Additional InformationSpring Landscape was appraised at 40,000 francs at the time of the exchange between Gustav Rochlitz and the ERR on 9 July 1941. This appraisal was probably provided by Dr Jacques Beltrand who was Hermann Göring’s official appraiser on all of the exchanges undertaken by the ERR in Paris on behalf of Göring.Gustav Rochlitz received Spring Landscape along with seventeen other modern works in an exchange for a North Italian Portrait of a Young Woman from the 16th century, said to be a portrait of Lavinia, Titian’s daughter.This was the eighth of eighteen formal exchanges of artwork undertaken by the ERR on behalf of Hermann Göring. Rochlitz subsequently sold five of the eighteen works received in the exchange to the art dealers Klein, Levy, Petrides, and Rosner.Approximately 700 works of art, which had been confiscated by the ERR in France were selected for Hermann Göring’s private art collection. The standard procedure for the selection of objects involved Göring’s personal visit to the Jeu de Paume in Paris where he chose from among the works of art which had been placed on display there by the ERR staff. In most instances, the objects were packed on Göring’s private train and shipped from Paris to Berlin between 8 February 1941 and 24 November 1942.The ERR was a special unit of the German Foreign Political Office under Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg whose primary function was the looting and confiscation of so-called “ownerless” Jewish art collections. Approximately 21,903 objects from 203 collections are believed to have been seized by the ERR in France.The ERR conducted twenty-eight formal exchanges of confiscated paintings with six dealers between February 1941 and November 1943. In most of the cases, the paintings were French paintings of the late 19th and 20th century, which were exchanged for Old Master paintings. Transportation of confiscated Impressionist and 20th century paintings to Germany was forbidden, as these were formally regarded as Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) by the Nazis. Instead, the ERR used these highly saleable paintings in the interest of commercial exploitation or to obtain Old Master and other paintings. Many of the exchanged paintings were smuggled to Switzerland from where they were sold into private collections.The information provided was taken from a 1945 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Report. The object may since have been restituted to its rightful owner and its current location might be known.If you can provide further information about the post-warProvenanceof this object, please contact the Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945.Source of InformationActivity of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in France (Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 1). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, APO 413, US Army, 15 August 1945The Göring Collection (Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 2). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, US Army, September 1945Gustav Rochlitz (Detailed Interrogation Report No. 4). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, US Army, August 1945ContactCentral Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-194576 Gloucester PlaceLondonW1U 6HJEnglandTel: +44 (0)20 7487 3401Email: info@lootedart.comhttps://www.lootedart.comTerms & Conditions |
| https://www.lootedart.com/search/artwork.php?artworkID=7607 | River Scene | Oil | 50 x 65 cm | Klein, Mlle Levy, Paul Petrides, and Isidor Rosner, Paris art dealers, possibly acquired from Gustav Rochlitz. Confiscated by the ERR from unknown collection, Paris.Gustav Rochlitz, Paris art dealer, received in an exchange with the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), 9 July 1941, Paris.Additional InformationRiver Scene was appraised at 60,000 francs at the time of the exchange between Gustav Rochlitz and the ERR on 9 July 1941. This appraisal was probably provided by Dr Jacques Beltrand who was Hermann Göring’s official appraiser on all of the exchanges undertaken by the ERR in Paris on behalf of Göring.Gustav Rochlitz received River Scene along with seventeen other modern works in an exchange for a North Italian Portrait of a Young Woman from the 16th century, said to be a portrait of Lavinia, Titian’s daughter.This was the eighth of eighteen formal exchanges of artwork undertaken by the ERR on behalf of Hermann Göring. Rochlitz subsequently sold five of the eighteen works received in the exchange to the art dealers Klein, Levy, Petrides, and Rosner.Approximately 700 works of art, which had been confiscated by the ERR in France were selected for Hermann Göring’s private art collection. The standard procedure for the selection of objects involved Göring’s personal visit to the Jeu de Paume in Paris where he chose from among the works of art which had been placed on display there by the ERR staff. In most instances, the objects were packed on Göring’s private train and shipped from Paris to Berlin between 8 February 1941 and 24 November 1942.The ERR was a special unit of the German Foreign Political Office under Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg whose primary function was the looting and confiscation of so-called “ownerless” Jewish art collections. Approximately 21,903 objects from 203 collections are believed to have been seized by the ERR in France.The ERR conducted twenty-eight formal exchanges of confiscated paintings with six dealers between February 1941 and November 1943. In most of the cases, the paintings were French paintings of the late 19th and 20th century, which were exchanged for Old Master paintings. Transportation of confiscated Impressionist and 20th century paintings to Germany was forbidden, as these were formally regarded as Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) by the Nazis. Instead, the ERR used these highly saleable paintings in the interest of commercial exploitation or to obtain Old Master and other paintings. Many of the exchanged paintings were smuggled to Switzerland from where they were sold into private collections.The information provided was taken from a 1945 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Report. The object may since have been restituted to its rightful owner and its current location might be known.If you can provide further information about the post-warProvenanceof this object, please contact the Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945.Source of InformationActivity of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in France (Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 1). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, APO 413, US Army, 15 August 1945The Göring Collection (Consolidated Interrogation Report No. 2). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, US Army, September 1945Gustav Rochlitz (Detailed Interrogation Report No. 4). Office of Strategic Services, Art Looting Investigation Unit, US Army, August 1945ContactCentral Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-194576 Gloucester PlaceLondonW1U 6HJEnglandTel: +44 (0)20 7487 3401Email: info@lootedart.comhttps://www.lootedart.comTerms & Conditions |
| https://www.lootedart.com/search/artwork.php?artworkID=7827 | Apple Trees in Bloom | Oil on canvas | 65.5 x 81.5 cm | Gift of the Turner family to Mr. and Mrs. S.F. Duncan, Toronto, c. 1946 Probably C. Turner family, parents of C.C. Turner who spent the war years in Canada as the ward of Mr. and Mrs. S.F. Duncan, Toronto. Possibly British or American art market, according to label and stock numbers on stretcher and frame and French art market, according to French customs stamp on the back.By descent, Douglas Duncan, Toronto, to 1968, and his sister, Frances Duncan Barwick, Ottawa Additional InformationIf you can provide any information about the Provenance of this object, please contact the address below.Source of Information National Gallery of CanadaLocationNational Gallery of CanadaOttawaCanadaTel: +1 613 990 1985Email: info@gallery.caContactDeputy Director and Chief CuratorTel: +1 613 990 1985Fax: +1 613 993 4385Terms & Conditions |
