gregorderntl.bsky.social
Provenance Researcher
Here, I present artworks that were stolen by the Nazis from their Jewish owners.
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After the annexation of Alsace by Nazi Germany in 1940, the watercolor was first acquired by a Strasbourg painter at an auction. In 1959, the city of Strasbourg purchased it for the local museum for just 50,000 francs. #art #klimt #artwork #restitution
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He tragically lost his life in Theresienstadt in 1942, while his wife perished in Auschwitz in 1944. To this day, significant parts of his once extensive collection remain missing. In 2006, the Schiele painting was finally returned to Rieger’s heirs.
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Starting around 1900, Rieger passionately assembled a remarkable collection of contemporary art, accepting artworks from artists as payment for dental treatments. Heinrich Rieger was stripped of his possessions and deported. #collector #artcollection
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The Munich art dealer Maria Almas-Dietrich acquired it for the “Sonderauftrag Linz,” Hitler’s organization collecting artworks for a planned Führer Museum in Linz. In 2020, Germany restituted the painting.
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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.
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To finance his survival, Wallerstein sold artworks, including the Kirchner painting. After his heirs filed restitution claims, it was agreed that the painting by Kirchner would remain at the Brücke Museum, which had acquired it in 1973. The museum made a compensation payment to the heirs.
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Unfortunately, the 300 characters are not enough for a detailed explanation.
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Yes, all the paintings posted so far have either been restituted or the heirs have been financially compensated.
In 2010, the case was settled when the Leopold Museum agreed to pay $19 million in compensation to Bondi Jaray’s heirs, allowing the museum to retain the painting.