Art Looting Red Flag Names with external identifiers

 

Red Flag Names Data

redflagname	redflagnameLabel	redflagnameDescription	VIAF	GND	RKD	proveana	BNF
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q47487008	Jean Charpentier	French art gallery owner	NaN	NaN	NaN	NaN	NaN
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15431273	Karl Buchholz	German art dealer authorized by Nazis to sell looted art, gallery owner, bookseller (1901-1992)	52451418	116818468	NaN	act10000251	15650389b
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q66087839	Klara Veraguth	Swiss art collector and art dealer	NaN	NaN	NaN	NaN	NaN
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q117199501	E. J. Meyer Bank	bank in Berlin	315180763	1070829935	NaN	NaN	NaN
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q47310686	Paul Cailleux	French art dealer (1884-1964)	31923904

Experiments in Automated Entity Extraction with Pinpoint: Toledo Museum of Art Provenance PDF

Pinpoint is a tool for investigative journalists. It performs automatic entity extraction from PDF files. Can it be useful for processing provenance texts?

In this post, we examine the results for the Provenance Research PDF file published by the Toledo Museum of Art and archived at: 

https://web.archive.org/web/20121224083005if_/http://www.toledomuseum.org:80/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Provenance-Research-lowres.pdf

Since the Toledo Museum of Art doesn't appear to publish provenance on its Website in 2024,  this older PDF file offers insights to the ownership history of artworks.

Grosz, shedding light on itineraries

The German Expressionist artist George Grosz (1893–1959) was persecuted by the Nazis for his art, while Grosz's art dealer, Alfred Flechtheim (1878-1937), was persecuted by the Nazis for being Jewish*. Both fled Nazi Germany in 1933, Grosz to America Flechtheim to English. Both were plundered.

Some pretty elaborate speculation has been advanced concerning the itineraries of artworks via Grosz and Flechtheim. So how to cut through all the noise? Where is bedrock solid information to be found? 

This post explores what the museums who have Grosz in their collections have to say about where they got it from.

First, a few numbers.

Grosz is thought to have created more than two thousand artworks, including paintings, drawings, sketches and prints. For the first part of his career, he painted in Germany. After 1933 most of his work was done in America. The Beschlagnahmeinventar "Entartete Kunst" published by the Freie Universität Berlin lists 501 works by Grosz.

Where is this art today?

VIDEO on the Challenges Posed by False Provenances

The Grosz was acquired from...

URL: https://www.openartdata.org/2024/11/the-grosz-was-acquired-from.html

The German Expressionist artist George Grosz (1893–1959) was persecuted by the Nazis for his art, while Grosz's art dealer, Alfred Flechtheim (1878-1937), was persecuted by the Nazis for being Jewish*. Both fled Nazi Germany in 1933, Grosz to America and Flechtheim to England. Both were plundered.

Some pretty elaborate speculation has been advanced concerning the itineraries of artworks via Grosz and Flechtheim. This post explores what the museums who have Grosz in their collections have to say about where they got it from.

Art Institutions Table

National Gallery of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art

Rosenwald Collection

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

"Degenerate Art" Collection

Dallas Museum of Art

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Museum of Modern Art

Bavarian State Painting Collections

King Baudouin Foundation

Where is this art today?

We're going to focus on the art created in early years, until 1932.

The itineraries of many of these artworks are contested. We will focus on the one piece of information that museums must know: who they acquired the Grosz artworks from and when.