Profile avatar
gregorderntl.bsky.social
Provenance Researcher Here, I present artworks that were stolen by the Nazis from their Jewish owners.
22 posts 1,788 followers 1,377 following
Regular Contributor
Posts 25 Comments 8

In 2000, the Strasbourg Museum restituted Gustav Klimt's Die Erfüllung to Karl Grünwald's descendants. The Viennese antiquarian had sent it to Strasbourg in 1938 after Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany. Later, the German occupiers confiscated the 1.93 × 1.2 m painting, one of Klimt’s major works

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

In 2000, the Strasbourg Museum restituted Gustav Klimt's Die Erfüllung to Karl Grünwald's descendants. The Viennese antiquarian had sent it to Strasbourg in 1938 after Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany. Later, the German occupiers confiscated the 1.93 × 1.2 m painting, one of Klimt’s major works

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Anita Clara Rée (9. Februar 1885)war eine anerkannte Malerin der Avantgarde in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik. Die Hamburgische Künstlerschaft schloss sie als Jüdin aus. Sie war durch Anfeindungen und persönliche Enttäuschungen vereinsamt; all dies trieb sie am 12. Dezember 1933 in den Freitod

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Wally by Egon Schiele Walburga (Wally) Neuzil was the lover and muse of the artist from 1911 to 1915. The Viennese art dealer Lea Bondi-Jaray, owner of the Würthle Gallery in Vienna, privately owned the Egon Schiele painting Wally. The art dealer Friedrich Welz extorted the painting from her

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

Lovis Corinth's 1911 painting "Frau mit Lilien" depicts the artist’s wife among lilies. The original owner, Otto Ollendorf, tragically took his life in 1939 due to Nazi persecution. The Gestapo seized the painting during his family’s emigration. It was restituted to the heirs in November 1998. #art

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

The painting "Sailing Ships in Agitated Waters – Port of Trieste" by Egon Schiele was acquired by the Joanneum Museum in Graz in 1958 from Friedrich Welz. Prior to 1938, it was part of the collection of the Jewish dentist Heinrich Rieger. #art #artworks #provenance #Schiele

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

Until 1938, the painting The Beggar (The Good-Natured Child) by Georg Ferdinand Waldmüller, one of the most significant Austrian painters of the 19th century, was owned by Irma Löwenstein, a Viennese Jew. Under Nazi rule, she was forced to sell it under duress.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Egon Schiele's painting Landscape at Krumau was owned by Daisy (née Steiner) and Wilhelm Hellmann.Seized by the Nazis in October 1938, it was sold in Vienna in 1942 and acquired by Wolfgang Gurlitt. In 1953, Gurlitt sold it to the Neue Galerie in Linz, where it remained until its restitution in 2003

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

The Foxes (German: Die Füchse) is a 1913 painting by German artist Franz Marc. It was housed at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf until it was returned to the heirs of Kurt Grawi in 2022. The heirs subsequently sold it at auction. #art #artworksn #artcollectors

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

Opposition grows to the German government's recent decision to reform the art restitution process in Germany by creating an arbitration tribunal to adjudicate claims. The main criticism is that this is not a reform but rather major steps backwards for art claimants. www.tachles.ch/artikel/inte...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Swamp Legend by Paul Klee, labeled degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) by the Nazis, was confiscated in 1937 from the Landesmuseum Hannover, where it had been on loan from art historian Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers. Since 1982, the artwork has been housed in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Starting July 1937, the painting was displayed in the Entartete Kunst exhibition in several German cities on the so-called Dada Wall.Degenerate art was defined as works that insult German feeling.In 2017, Lissitzky-Küppers' heirs reached an ownership agreement with the city of Munich. #art

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Swamp Legend by Paul Klee, labeled degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) by the Nazis, was confiscated in 1937 from the Landesmuseum Hannover, where it had been on loan from art historian Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers. Since 1982, the artwork has been housed in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

This painting by Ernst Müller was restituted to the heirs of Selma and Ludwig Friedmann.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Litzlberg am Attersee by Gustav Klimt Amalie Redlich inherited the painting Litzlberg am Attersee (1915) by Gustav Klimt from her brother Victor. In 1941, Amalie Redlich and her daughter Mathilde were deported by the National Socialists to Łódź and murdered.

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

The apartment of the deported Amalie Redlich was cleared out by the Gestapo. Through the Salzburg art dealer and collector Friedrich Welz, the confiscated painting entered the Salzburg State Gallery in 1944. It remained in Salzburg until it was restituted 2011 to Amalie's heir in Canada. #art

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Litzlberg am Attersee by Gustav Klimt Amalie Redlich inherited the painting Litzlberg am Attersee (1915) by Gustav Klimt from her brother Victor. In 1941, Amalie Redlich and her daughter Mathilde were deported by the National Socialists to Łódź and murdered.

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

Fascinating documentary on Nazi collaborator Hildebrand Gurlitt, who helped facilitate the seizure of art by the Nazis, and his son Cornelius, who illegally held on to much of this stolen art well into his senior years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik1a... #Art #History #Documentaries

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

New: Files of more clients linked to Nazi atrocities were recently found by independent investigators probing Credit Suisse @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

Erich Heckel and Otto Mueller playing Chess (1913) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner The painting was part of the collection of Jewish art historian and art dealer Dr. Victor Wallerstein. Persecuted by the Nazis, he sought refuge in Italy in 1936, where he remained under threat.

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Krumau Town Crescent I, 1915 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25732

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

"Allegory of Eternity" by Peter Paul Rubens (ca. 1625) is housed in the San Diego Museum of Art. In 2004, the museum settled with the heirs of Jacob Oppenheimer, a Jewish art dealer in Nazi Germany whose collection was forcibly sold. The work remained in the museum after compensation. #art #rubens

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Lovis Corinth's 1911 painting "Frau mit Lilien" depicts the artist’s wife among lilies. The original owner, Otto Ollendorf, tragically took his life in 1939 due to Nazi persecution. The Gestapo seized the painting during his family’s emigration. It was restituted to the heirs in November 1998. #art

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

The Foxes (German: Die Füchse) is a 1913 painting by German artist Franz Marc. It was housed at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf until it was returned to the heirs of Kurt Grawi in 2022. The heirs subsequently sold it at auction. #art #artworksn #artcollectors

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

Wally by Egon Schiele Walburga (Wally) Neuzil was the lover and muse of the artist from 1911 to 1915. The Viennese art dealer Lea Bondi-Jaray, owner of the Würthle Gallery in Vienna, privately owned the Egon Schiele painting Wally. The art dealer Friedrich Welz extorted the painting from her

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments