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| Adolph Menzel, restituted to the heirs of Walter Westfeld |
Below is a selection of several provenances published online by Sotheby's. Some of the provenance texts indicate that artworks put up for auction had previously been restituted to the families of persecuted collectors.
For the artworks that have been restituted, the provenances - before the restitution - offer clues to how the resale market for Nazi-looted art worked. Through which hands did the artworks pass? Do any names recur?
Morning on the Seine, Giverny (Matinée sur la Seine)
MONET AC 1966.48
(no provenance)
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=AC+1966.48
Part of the series on museum websites, provenance and transparency:
this post looks at the availability of provenance information on artworks at:
DATABASE search https://museums.fivecolleges.edu
Explore the museum's full collection through the Five College Collections Database, which combines SCMA’s holdings with the collections of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst, Historic Deerfield and the Hampshire College Art Gallery.
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| This Nazi-looted painting was restituted in 2016. https://www.lostart.de/de/Verlust/526702 |
(above: Saint Florian at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art,
1. Hugelshofer mentioned in relation to selected artworks in US museums
2. Hugelshofer mentioned in relation to auctions
3. Hugelshofer mentioned in the Kleinberger archives
4. Hugelshofer mentioned in association with Julius Böhler archives
(continued from Walter Hugelshofer in provenances)
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I'm wondering about the #mapping of #stories and the different versions that are told over time by different people in different places.
My own focus is the stories that are told about the #itineraries of #artworks, called #provenance.
But when I look at this #map of #iceberg #movement from Peter T Fretwell, I'm inspired about #dataviz possibilities for alternative histories of artworks (of which only one is true, the others false)
https://mastodon.art/@openartdata/109397742358396244
The #map function on #Digital #Benin is brilliant.
https://twitter.com/OpenLinkArtData/status/1595301214354571264
Can switch from #historical #landmarks of Benin Kingdom to the #museums in possession today.
Then #drill down for details and #datasets, with #provenance #linksCould one go further and show #movement ?
https://mastodon.art/@openartdata/109392975167318554
See details below:
The Austrian city of Linz agreed to return a landscape by Egon Schiele to the heirs of the pre-war owner, Daisy Hellman. The Gestapo seized the picture after Ms. Hellman left Austria following the Anschluss. A German collector named Wolfgang Gurlitt bought the picture at auction in 1942 and sold it, along with the rest of his collection, to the city of Linz in 1953.
https://archives-financialservices.house.gov/media/pdf/072706jc.pdf
"A pro-Nazi dealer falsely claimed years later that "The Seamstress had been destroyed in an Allied air raid. After the war, he sold it to the municipal museum in Linz, Austria.
The Times-Tribune, 13 July 1999
https://www.newspapers.com/image/528889595
Jean Baer, a Jewish art collector in Berlin, owned this painting by Lovis Corinth, entitled "Matrose (Sailor"). His widow, Ida Baer was deported to Theresienstadt in August 1942. Wolfgang Gurlitt got hold of their painting somehow and donated it to the Lentos museum in 1953.
It was restituted to the Baer heirs in 2015.
Provenance published by Sothebys in 2015
R. Brackl, Munich
Fritz Dägling, Königsberg
Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich (1859-1935, founder of Moderne Galerie Thannhauser in 1909 and proponent of avant-garde art, notably Kandinsky, Klee and Franz Marc)
Jean Baer, Berlin
Wolfgang Gurlitt, Munich (1888-1965, gallerist, art dealer and collector)
Neue Galerie / Lentos Museum, Linz (purchased from the above in 1953)
Restituted to the heirs of Jean and Ida Baer in 2015
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000008462992/linzer-kunstmuseum-lentos-restituiert-drei-kunstwerke
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An Austrian museum is coming to terms with the tainted legacy of its first director and founding collector, Wolfgang Gurlitt, a dealer in Nazi-looted art
Austrian exhibition to reveal story of Wolfgang Gurlitt, art dealer for the Nazis turned museum director
by Catherine Hickley, The Art Newspaper 13 March 2019
Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz confronts the legacy of its controversial first director, cousin of Hildebrand Gurlitt
Linzer Kunstmuseum Lentos restituiert drei Kunstwerke
Gemälde von Lovis Corinth und Emil Nolde werden vor der Rückgabe werden sie noch bis 11. Jänner ausgestellt
21. November 2014, 12:55 Der Standard
https://archive.ph/rwSZp#selection-2057.0-2085.117
(translated into English with Deepl)
Linz Art Museum Lentos restitutes three works of art
Paintings by Lovis Corinth and Emil Nolde to be exhibited until January 11 before being returned
November 21, 2014, 12:55
Linz - The Linz Art Museum Lentos will restitute two works of art by Lovis Corinth and one by Emil Nolde. This was decided by the city council. Before they are returned, they will be exhibited for the last time until January 11. This was announced by the museum on Friday.
The three paintings are the "Maiwiese" (May Meadow) by Emil Nolde and "Othello" (The Moor) and "Schwabing" (View from the studio window) by Lovis Corinth. Provenance research revealed that the Maiwiese originally belonged to Otto Siegfried Julius, a physician living in Hamburg. Because of his Jewish origins, he was persecuted by the Nazi rulers and fled Germany in September 1938. He tried to send his art collection to Switzerland. On the way of transport, however, its trace is lost. The painting subsequently came into the possession of a Salzburg gallery owner, from whom the city of Linz acquired it in November 1953.
The two paintings by Lovis Corinth were owned by the Berlin commercial judge, merchant and art collector Jean Baer and, after his death in 1930, by his widow Ida Baer. Between 1939 and her deportation to Theresienstadt in August 1942, where she died in the same year, the woman lost control of the art collection. The further whereabouts of the artworks remain unknown, as does the time at which Wolfgang Gurlitt came into possession of them. When he sold part of his collection to the city of Linz in 1953, as part of the founding of the city's New Gallery, the two paintings were among them. Wolfgang Gurlitt is a relative of the art collector Cornelius Gurlitt, who died this May and who for months was at the center of a heated debate about looted art.
The results of this research have led to the conclusion that the works must be returned in accordance with the Austrian Art Restitution Act. All three works are therefore to be handed over to the heirs at the beginning of the coming year. Until all formalities and transport preparations have been completed, the paintings will be exhibited in a room of the current collection presentation from next Tuesday until January 11, 2015. Following research into the provenance of the Lentos collection, the City of Linz has restituted or settled a total of ten paintings since 1999. (APA, 21.11.2014)
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Anna Somers Cocks, 1 July 2004 The Art Newspaper, Book review of Sophie Lillie's Was Einmal War
Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten, Kunstsammlungen Wiens (Czernin Verlag, Vienna, 2003) 1,440 pp, 354 b/w ills, €69 (hb), ISBN 3707600491
"This important book gives a full documentation for the Jewish art collectors of Vienna whose goods and lives were targeted by the Nazis"
Leon and Marianne Abramowicz,
Bernhard Altmann,
Hans and Helene Amon,
Otto and Clara Anninger,
Gustav Arens,
Fritz and Anna Unger,
Felix and Lise Haas,
Carl and Rosa Askonas,
Stefan Auspitz,
Theodor and Angela Auspitz-Artenegg,
Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt,
Richard and Paula Beer-Hofmann,
Ernst and Irma Benedikt,
Ludwig Bettelheim-Gabillon,
Rudolf and Martha Bittmann,
Josef and Gusti Blauhorn,
Hugo and Malvine Blitz,
Wilhelm and Gertrude Blitz,
Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer,
Victor and Alice Blum,
Oscar Bondy (fled to Switzerland, died in NY in 1944)
Julius and Paula Breuer,
Otto and Lilly Brill,
Julius and Margarethe Buchstab,
Paul and Mary Cahn-Speyer,
Edwin and Caroline Czeczowiczka,
Arthur and Irma Czeczowiczka,
Georg Duschinsky,
Ernst and Fanny Egger,
Lothar and Eveline Egger-Möllwald,
Alfred and Valerie Eisler,
Hermann and Hortense Eissler,
Berta Morelli,
Hans and Lucie Engel,
Viktor and Emilie Ephrussi,Charlotte Epstein,
Rudolf Ernst,
Gertrud Felsöványi,
Adele Fischel,
Josef Freund,
Wilhelm Freund,
Hugo and Hilde Friedmann,
Hermann and Elsa Gall,
Paul and Martha Gerngross,
Robert and Frida Gerngross,
Emil Geyer,
David and Lilly Goldmann,
Philipp, Cornelia and Marie Gomperz,
Fritz and Lilly Grünbaum,
Karl and Stephanie Grünwald,
Rudolf and Marianne Gutmann,
Leo and Helene Hecht,
Valerie Heissfeld,
Wilhelm and Daisy Hellmann,
Franz and Marie Louise Herzberg,
Fritz and Gertrud Hirsch,
Ernst and Martha Hirsch,
Adolf and Hilda Hochstim,
Franz Josef and Vally Honig,
Josef Franz and Hermin Hupka,
Bruno Jellinek,
Otto and Fanny Kallir-Nirenstein,
Siegfried and Irma Kantor,
Emil and Helene Karpeles-Schenker,
Irma Ketschendorf,
Benedikt and Emilie Klapholz,
Norbert and Serafine Klinger,
Isidor and Camilla Kohn,
Nettie Königstein,
Felix Kornfeld
Gottlieb and Mathilde Kraus
Wilhelm Viktor and Marianne Krausz,
Hans Krüger,
Moriz and Elsa Kuffner,
Stephan Kuffner,
Wilhelm and Camilla Kuffner,
Adele Kulka,
Wally Kulka,
Oscar L. Ladner,
Richard and Anna Lanyi,
Georg and Hermine Lasus,
August and Serena Lederer,
Rosa Lemberger,
Mathilde Lieben,
Leon and Antonie Lilienfeld,
Markus and Melanie Lindenbaum
, Fritz and Helene Löhner
, Arthur and Marianne Lourié,
Wilhelm and Fanny Löw,
Oscar and Irma Löwenstein,
Alma Mahler-Werfel,
Fritz Mandl,
Stephan and Else Mautner,
Edmund and Adele Mendelsohn,
Franz Mendelsohn,
Alice Meyszner,
Max and Hertha Morgenstern,
Aranka Munk,
Oskar and Therese Neumann,
Richard and Alice Neumann,
Gabriele Oppenheimer,
Ignatz and Gisela Pick,
Moric and Irma Pick,
Otto and Katharina Pick,
Ernst and Gisela Pollack,
Albert Pollak,
Robert and Adele Pollak,
Leopold Popper-Podhragy,
Ernst and Ilse Popper-Podhragy,
Arthur and Agnes Prager,
Julius and Camilla Priester,
Leo Prister,
Alfred Quittner,
Amalie Redlich,
Anton and Marie Redlich,
Paul and Therese Regenstreif,
Oskar and Malvine Reichel,
Arnim and Rosa Reichmann,
Heinrich Reif,
Andreas and Luise Reisinger,
Franz and Anna Riedl,
Heinrich and Berta Rieger, (Heinrich died in Theresienstadt camp in 1942)
Max Roden and Sascha Kronburg,
Heinrich and Ella Rothberger,
Moriz Rothberger,
Alphonse and Clarice Rothschild,
Louis Rothschild,
Franz Rothschild,
Franz Ruhmann,
Emma Schiff-Suvero,
Gustav and Louise Schoenberg,
Ludwig and Gertrude Schüller,
Eduard and Gisela Schweinburg,
Arnold and Margit Löffler,
Elkan and Abraham Silberman,
Josef and Louise Simon,
Marianne Singer,
Alfred and Irmgard Sonnenfeld,
Valentine Springer,
Jenny Steiner,
Klara Steiner,
Paul and Nora Stiasny
, Georg Terramare and Erni Terrel,
Alfons and Marie Thorsch,
Siegfried and Antonia Trebitsch,
Alexander and Irma Weiner,
Leopold Weinstein
,Josefine Winter,
Paul Wittgenstein,
Fritz and Annie Wolff-Knize,
Frank and Mary Wooster,
Alexander and Luise Zemlinsky,
Paul Zsolnay,
Fritz and Trude Zuckerkandl