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.

Visualising Art Market Networks and Relations to Art Looting Red Flag Names

 

Mapping art dealer and art gallery relations,
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Probst and expanded network: explorations in provenance

 Starting from Probst and expanding out to see the other names that appeared together with Probst in provenances

Alsdorf in provenances of artworks in the Chicago Art Institute

James and Marilynn Alsdorf contributed many valuable artworks to the Art Institute of Chicago.

The table below shows provenance texts as published on AIC's website in August 2024. 

Provenance gaps of over a thousand years are not uncommon.

Loebl, Kleinberger and Sperling in NEPIP provenances in American Museums

Harry Sperling, the grandson of art dealer Franz Kleinberger, became head of the firm F. Kleinberger Galleries. His cousin, Allan Loebl, an Art Looting Investigation Unit Red Flag Name, was in charge of the Paris office during WWII.

Below are the provenances of some of the artworks that transited via Kleinberger on their way to US museums.