Arthur Pfannstiel, Red Flag Name

"Definitely not a reliable or trustworthy source for cataloguing" 

- Secret Modigliani

 What does it mean to find Arthur Pfannstiel in a provenance or as the author of a reference?

Max Silberberg owned Manet's La Sultane from 1928 to 1937, according to the Kunsthaus Zürich

The provenance of Manet's La Sultane, also known as Woman in Oriental Garb, has changed so often that it can be hard to keep up. The ownership by Holocaust victim Max Silberberg, which was challenged and undermined by speculation in previous iterations of the provenance published by the Bührle Foundation, has now been definitively confirmed by the Kunsthaus Zürich. 

Silberberg owned the painting continuously from 1928 to 1937.

The Kunsthaus Zürich publishes a page with "drawers" of documents and information from the collection.

https://www.kunsthaus.ch/en/buehrle-provenance-drawers/

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,
where the color RED marks Art Looting Investigation Unit Red Flag Names and blue indicates people or companies with business or personal relations#Networks #artmarket #dynasties #dataviz pic.twitter.com/UfaXENeoTS

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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