1 Murder, Mystery and Egon Schiele’s Dead City Swiss laundering of stolen Austrian art Judisches Museum, Berlin 18 May 2009 7:30 pm Raymond J. Dowd Partner – Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP New York NY 2 Entartete Kunst “Degenerate Art” Hitler visits the Entartete Kunst exhibit in 1937 In 1937, the Nazis declared a large number of artworks as “degenerate” if “un-German” or Jewish. To mock “degenerate” artists, the Nazis presented “Entartete Kunst” a traveling art exhibit, in 1937. Degenerate art was stripped from museums, artists boycotted or exiled. 3 1933-1945 – Jews Stripped of Artworks • 25% Reich Flight Tax • 25% Atonement Tax • 96% Confiscatory foreign exchange rate for Jews • Blocked bank accounts • Sham transactions • Wholesale confiscations of Jews • Tens of thousands of artworks left Germany and entered the U.S. directly and through Switzerland • Snapped up by U.S. museums and wealthy collectors 4 On Nazi-Looted Art: “This is such a gigantic issue,” Cleveland Museum of Art Director Robert P. Bergman said. ``We're talking about hundreds of thousands of objects. I believe that for the rest of my professional career, this issue will face the museums of the world.'‘ (AP/Akron Beacon Journal 3/1/1998). Bergman died at age 54 in 1999 after a two-week illness of a rare blood disorder (NY Times 5/7/99). 5 Scope of current Nazi-art problem • “the amount of research to be undertaken on the tens of thousands of works of art that, by definition, may have Nazi-era provenance problems is significant, requiring large allocations of staff time and money, allocations U.S. art museums have made and will make until the job is done.” - Testimony of AAMD President James Cuno to Congress July 27, 2006 6 Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally – 1998 Morgenthau Seizure from MOMA as stolen --- with Fritz Grunbaum’s Dead City
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Murder, Mystery and Egon Schiele’s Dead City
Swiss laundering of stolen Austrian art
Judisches Museum, Berlin18 May 2009
7:30 pm
Raymond J. DowdPartner – Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP
New York NY2
Entartete Kunst“Degenerate Art”
Hitler visits the Entartete Kunst exhibit in 1937
In 1937, the Nazis declared a large number of artworks as “degenerate” if “un-German” or Jewish.
To mock “degenerate” artists, the Nazis presented “Entartete Kunst” a traveling art exhibit, in 1937. Degenerate art was stripped from museums, artists boycotted or exiled.
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1933-1945 – Jews Stripped of Artworks
• 25% Reich Flight Tax• 25% Atonement Tax• 96% Confiscatory foreign exchange rate for Jews• Blocked bank accounts• Sham transactions• Wholesale confiscations of Jews• Tens of thousands of artworks left Germany and
entered the U.S. directly and through Switzerland• Snapped up by U.S. museums and wealthy
collectors 4
On Nazi-Looted Art:
“This is such a gigantic issue,” Cleveland Museum of Art Director Robert P. Bergman said. ``We're talking about hundreds of thousands of objects. I believe that for the rest of my professional career, this issue will face the museums of the world.'‘
(AP/Akron Beacon Journal 3/1/1998). Bergman died at age 54 in 1999 after a two-week illness of a rare blood disorder (NY Times 5/7/99).
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Scope of current Nazi-art problem
• “the amount of research to be undertaken on the tens of thousands of works of art that, by definition, may have Nazi-era provenance problems is significant, requiring large allocations of staff time and money, allocations U.S. art museums have made and will make until the job is done.”
- Testimony of AAMD President James Cuno to Congress July 27, 2006
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Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally – 1998 Morgenthau Seizure from MOMA as stolen --- with Fritz Grunbaum’s Dead City
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1999 Seizure Quashed, U.S. Attorney Seizes Portrait of Wally
• Rita and Tim Reif assert claims in New York to Fritz Grunbaum’s artworks, D.A. Morgenthau seizure at MoMA
• New York Court of Appeals quashes D.A. Morgenthau’s subpoena of Portrait of Wally and Dead City
• Orders MoMA to return artworks to Austria• Next day, U.S. Attorney seizes only Portrait of Wally• Missing heirs for Grunbaum’s Dead City – returned to
Austria, now at Leopold Museum in Vienna• Portrait of Wally case still pending 11 years later before
Judge Preska in the SDNY – summary judgment motions being briefed this Spring 8
1999 Morgenthau Seizure
• Tremendous international scandal• Led to Austria opening archives to return Jewish
property to comply with 1955 Austrian State Treaty• Austria reformed laws to permit claims to stolen art in
museums only• Led to Washington conference on stolen art• Museums agreed to “Washington Principles” – research
their collections, favorable evidentiary burdens, encouraging heirs to come forward
• Museums promised to publish all provenance research, welcome heirs
U.S. Museums and Auction Houses Violate the Washington Principles
• Failed to hire provenance researchers and public research• Publishing false, misleading and incomplete provenance
research making research impossible• Suing Jewish heirs, accusing heirs of greed and extortion• Auction houses peddle unprovenanced works• Toledo and Detroit museums, Museum of Fine Arts Boston,• MoMA and Guggenheim sued heirs of Holocaust victims• U.S. museums assert laches and statute of limitations
defenses• U.S. museums claim Jews voluntarily sold artworks during
Holocaust• Museums and auction houses falsely claim Holocaust-
looted art was unknown until 1990’s in U.S.10
2009 Prague Conference on Stolen Art
• June 26-31, 2009• Decade after Washington Conference• U.S. State Department sending envoy to get
world’s museums to agree to return stolen art• Will be a major issue for Obama Administration• Proposal for a U.S. Restitution Commission
likely• Wrongful actions of U.S. museums likely to be a
diplomatic sore spot
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Fritz Grunbaum Born April 7, 1880 Brno, Moravia Died January 14, 1941 Dachau Concentration Camp 12
-Famous film star Berlin
-Famous cabaret performer
-Famous writer
www.imdb.com
Part of Austria’s “Abbott & Costello” – style comedy team
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Hitler Invades Austria March 12, 1938
Hitler salutes his troops marching into Austria
The Nazis reach Vienna
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Fritz at Dachau – Arrested 3/22/1938 – Died in Captivity
While at Dachau, Fritz and other prisoners participated in Cabaret performances to keep spirits up. Performances were supported by the Nazis and scheduled on the same day as trains taking prisoners to death camps.
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Heirs’ Claim to Title: Heirs of Fritz Grunbaum
• Austrian co-heirs under 2003 Estate Assignment Certificate (Probate Decree)
• Fritz predeceased wife, no issue• Fritz and Elizabeth (“Lily”) had separate
propertyUnder Austrian law:• Fritz’s heirs take 50% of Fritz’s property• Elizabeth’s (“Lily”) heirs take 50% of Fritz’s
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Jewish Property Declarations• April 26, 1938 Law - penalty
of imprisonment/confiscation
• Required for Jews with over 5,000 RM
• Filed every three months until property gone or left Reich
• November 12, 1938 Property became available to the Reich
• Systematically liquidated through Aryan trustees
• Art Collection Category IV “Other Property”
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Fritz Grunbaum Jewish Property Declarations
– Filed by Lily under power of attorney, pain of imprisonment
– Six declarations filed July, 1938 through June 30, 1939
– Contained art collection Franz Kieslingerappraisal at 5,791 RM
– Last time art collection declared was June 30, 1939 – almost a year after Mathilde Lukacsleft Vienna
• Annexed to July 1938 Fritz Grunbaumproperty declaration
• Fritz was at Dachau since March 1938• Lists 449 artworks belonging to Fritz• 81 Schieles• 5 Schiele oils by name – Dead City, Town
on the Blue River• 76 Drawings and watercolors (untitled)
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Kieslinger Inventory
• Establishes unequivocally that Dead Citystolen from Fritz Grunbaum’s Vienna apartment
• Fritz died penniless in Dachau in January 1941
• Artworks never restituted to him or his family
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The Kieslinger Inventory
Dead City
“Large drawing by Schiele, 55 works colored, 20 drawings and 1 print by Schiele”
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Who were Kajetan Muhlmann and Franz Kieslinger?• Muhlmann based Nazi operations
in Holland to oversee laundering of title to artworks looted throughout the Reich.
• Franz Kieslinger was Muhlmann’shenchman
• In July, 1938 Kieslingerinventoried Fritz Grunbaum’s art collection* Petropoulos, Jonathan, The Faustian Bargain (OxfordUniversity Press 1990) at 170-204).
Muhlmann has been described as
“arguably the single most prodigious art
plunderer in the history of human
civilization”*
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Vienna’s Dorotheum – Sales Outlet for Stolen Jewish Property
• According to Sotheby’s Lucien Simmons “a clearinghouse for the Gestapo”
• Franz Kieslinger was a Dorotheum expert
• Following inventory of FG collection Kieslinger went on to become a notorious Nazi art looter
• Managing director of Aryanized WeinmullerAuction house in late 1938
• Shows corruption, opportunity, motive and probability 24
November 18, 1938 Nazi Finance Ministry Decree on Jewish Property
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11/18/1938 Nazi Finance Ministry Report
“Other Property” Refers to Category IV in Jewish Property
Declarations
1. Shows Nazis considered Jewish art collections “available to the
Reich” and liquid assets
2. Shows Nazis liquidating Jewish art collections to finance war
machine as of November 18, 1938
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At least nine percent of the Nazi total government budget in 1938-39 was stolen from Jews (approximately 1.5 billion Reichsmarks).
Aly, Goetz, Hitler’s Beneficiaries
(Metropolitan Books 2006) at 48.
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Evidence Fritz’s Art Collection Stolen
• Art collection Category IV (“Other Property”)
• “Gesperrt” stamp in Category IV
• “Erledigt” stamp in Category IV
• Shows Nazis considered Grunbaum“case closed”
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Grunbaum’s Aryan Trustee –Ludwig Rochlitzer
• By Nazi law of December 3, 1938, Aryan trustees were empowered to transfer and sell Jewish assets and to render proceeds to the Reich to finance the Nazi war machine
(DBM 5806-5812)
• By letter dated January 31, 1939, Rochlitzerinforms Lily he is in charge of her property and demands extortionate fees
• Rochlitzer’s fee and expenses = 6,500 RM
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Letter dated January 31, 1939
Establishes Lily and Fritz lost legal control of assets practical ability to
transfer any assets as of January 31, 1939
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• April 26, 1938 – Jewish Property Declaration Law gives Marshal Hermann Goering control over Jewish assets
• September 8, 1938 – Grunbaum’s collection deposited with Nazi storage company (Schenker)
• November 12, 1938 – Jewish Property Declared “available” to the Reich
• January 31, 1939 – Aryan trustee appointed to control and liquidate Grunbaum property
• June 30, 1939 – Lily declares intact art collection to Nazis• November 14, 1941 – Fritz is dead, Lily’s only remaining
property is estate in Slovakia• October 5, 1942 – Lily murdered penniless in death camp
in Minsk, Belarus
Art Collection Spoliation Timeline
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Power of Attorney Used To Steal Fritz’s Property
• Art collection listed as Fritz’s in Jewish Property Declarations
• Lily needed power of attorney from Fritz to liquidate property and life insurance policy
• Power of attorney executed in Dachau• Powers of attorney void as a matter of Austrian
law - used to systematically force Jews in concentration camps to liquidate property
• Thus, during Fritz’s stay in Dachau, any transfers by illegal power of attorney were void
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Minsk
Lily Grunbaum was deported to Minsk where she died on October 5, 1942. Minsk was a death camp.
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Powers of Attorney
“There is a curious respect for legal formalities. The signature of the person despoiled is always obtained, even if the person in question has to be sent to Dachau in order to break down his resistance.”
- U.S. Consul General in Vienna34
Grunbaum’s Dachau Power of Attorney
• July 1938 - Fritz Grunbaum executes a power of attorney permitting his wife to liquidate his property, including life insurance policies
• 1946 Austrian Nullification Act – Austria nullifies all transactions flowing from powers of attorney executed by concentration camp inmates
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Additional Evidence GrunbaumCollection Stolen By Nazis
• Franz Kieslinger connoisseur and fan of Schiele
• Nazis valued Schiele during war – auction prices high – officially displayed in Austria
• BDA Employee Otto Demus inventoried Grunbaum collection in Nazi employ
• According to Austrian government, no export license for Grunbaum Schiele’sever obtained 1938-1960’s
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Schenker Export ApplicationSeptember 8, 1938
• Elizabeth Grunbaum submits while Fritz in Dachau • Stamped with Swastikas by Nazi functionary Otto
Demus on or around September 8, 1938• Roughly same number of artworks as Kieslinger
Inventory (three envelopes of graphics)• Export license expired December 8, 1938• No customs stamps indicating collection left Vienna
during WWII• No Bundesdenkmalamt (“BDA”) export licenses
during Nazi era, indicating collection did not leave Austria during WW II
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Lily’s Schenker Inventory
21 Oil Paintings15 Water Colors
2 Pastel s6 Miniatures
2 Oil Miniatures10 Drawings
278 Drawings (some in color)
7 graphics3 envelopes with misc.
graphics66 graphic prints
1 collage
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Edmund Veesenmayer: Board of Directors of Schenker
Nazi War Criminal
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What is Schenker?• World’s largest freight forwarding company• Purchased secretly in Switzerland in early
1930’s by Germany• Controlled centrally from Berlin from early ’30’s• Edmund Veesenmayer used Schenker to
prepare for Anschluss• Schenker used to export Jews to Palestine• Thoroughly Nazified entity• Refused to account for Fritz Grunbaum’s
property• Official freight forwarder of the Beijing Olympics
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Where is Fritz Grunbaum’s Stolen Dead City?
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Egon Schiele’s Dead City
Now in Leopold Museum in Vienna 42
What is the Leopold Museum?
• Created as “private foundation” by Austria to purchase Rudolph Leopold’s collection of art looted from Jewish victims
• Austria pretends that this “private foundation” (owned by Austrian government) is exempt from ban on Austria owning looted Jewish art
• Austria owns major portion of museum during Rudolph Leopold’s lifetime, will inherit upon Leopold’s death
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Who is Rudoph Leopold?
• Protégé of Franz Kieslinger• Kieslinger convinced Leopold to collect
Schieles at a Dorotheum auction• Austria investigating collection for looted
artworks
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How Did Leopold Get Dead City?
• Austria to Switzerland (early 1956)• Switzerland to New York (September 1956)• 1958 - New York to Austria (Leopold swap
with Otto Kallir for eight Schieles and a Klimt)• 1997 - Austrian loan to MoMA in New York• 1999 - Morgenthau/MoMA – Dead City given
to Leopold Museum Austria
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Dead City’s Journey Through Austrian CorruptionEgon Schiele
Arthur Roessler
Fritz Grunbaum – 3/22/38
Edmund Veesenmayer’s Schenker? Otto Demus’ BDA? 9/8/38 – 4/24/56
Eberhard Kornfeld (Switzerland) 4/24/56
Otto Kallir (9/18/56 Invoice, Possession of Drawing Delivered in New York)
1958 – Swapped to Rudolph Leopold for 8 Schieles and a Klimt46
Swiss Financing of Nazi Art Sales
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Nazi Reich Laundered Artworks Through FIDES
• FIDES – Treuhand of Zurich• Established 1910 • Subsidiary of Credit Suisse• Offered 30% discounts to Americans and British• Laundered sales of Nazi art• Attempted to buy all degenerate art from Nazis• Never investigated by the Swiss• Visit www.fides.ch• Bergier Report mentioning FIDES laundering
www.uek.ch (best information in Vol. 1 not online)
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Why Has The Massive Swiss Laundering of Nazi Art Not Been
Investigated?
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Bern, Switzerland
April 24, 1956
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Eberhard Kornfeld
Gutekunst & Klipstein Kornfeld & Klipstein
Klipstein & Assocs. Galerie Kornfeld52
Significance of 81 Schieles in Weighing the Evidence
• Rare and exotic collection• Each artwork unique• JK identifies only 76 Schiele
collectors and dealers who knew the artist
• JK Identifies only 26 Major collectors and dealers after Schiele’s death (including Grunbaum)
• Small competitive group of collectors who knew each other
• Provenance paperwork critical to establish value of these artworks
• Rare stolen works cannot be sold while witnesses are alive
Egon Schiele’s “Dead City” 1911
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Pre-War Publications Showing Fritz Grunbaum’s Schiele Collection Known to
Kornfeld and Kallir
• 1928 Hagenbund/Neue GalerieCorrespondence
• 1925 Wurthle Gallery Catalog• 1930 Otto Kallir Catalog Raisonnee• Famous art collection of famous political
dissident would surely not escape Nazi scrutiny
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Kornfeld 1956 Schiele Catalog
#1 Dead City with provenance from Otto Kallir’s 1930 catalogue raisonnée
53 other Schieles with no provenance listed
Kornfeld testifies that all Schieles in ’56 catalog came from Grunbaum
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Dead City’s Provenance Published in ’56 Kornfeld Catalog Shows: 1925 Wurthle Exhibition, 1928 Hagenbund
Exhibition and Fritz Grunbaum’s Ownership
• K 01 H DBM(06366) OK30 94 H DBM(06366) 56
Gutekunst & Klipstein
• According to Swiss government’s BergierReport, Gutekunst & Klipstein selling confiscated works for Nazis
• Selling Nazi confiscated Kandinskys to Solomon Guggenheim in New York
• German govt report – Gutekunst & Klipstein major seller of Nazi looted art
• Bergier Commission never used subpoena powers – a true whitewash
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Galerie Kornfeld to Sotheby’s LegantFebruary 14, 2005
• Kornfeld claims no written documentation of acquisition
P. Ex. 120 at DBM 2400
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Kornfeld’s Sworn Deposition
• Kornfeld swore his gallery has all documentation since 1919
• Thus Kornfeld’s claims to Sotheby’s that all documents destroyed was false
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Kornfeld’s Ludicrous New Claim
• Fritz Grunbaum’s sister-in-law allegedly sold him 54 Schieles
• Kornfeld never asked where she got them• Sister-in-law had no heirship rights under
Austrian law• Thus, Dead City stolen while Fritz in
Dachau, never given to any heir
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Evidence Kornfeld Forged Lukacs’Signatures
• Lukacs misspelled own name• Handwriting expert expressed “massive
doubts” writings came from same hand• Kornfeld blocked access of heirs to
handwriting expert for inspection of original signatures
• Kornfeld hiding in Switzerland• Artworks mentioned in correspondence
don’t match up
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Dead City Entry in KornfeldInventory
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5/22/56 Bound Inventory Volume
There is no seller listed in ink
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Pencil Receipt for Two Deliveries
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Receipt dated April 24, 1956
Pencil signature No invoice
Excluded notation
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Purported Acquisition of Dead CityApril 24, 1956
• 4/24/1956 – Kornfeld claims he paid cash for Dead City and 45 other Schieles
• Receipt signed in pencil • Receipt was payment for “4/24/1956 Invoice”
(Kornfeld refused to provide this document)• Payment was for 2/7/1956 delivery of 20 Schieles
and 25 additional Schieles including Dead City entered in EK inventory on 5/22/1956 with 23 other Schieles
• Seller’s name not recorded• “Lukacs” added later in pencil by Kornfeld 66
Kornfeld’s Acquisitions for Personal Collection - Red Blouse - JK 1394
• K 28
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Chief Inspector Benesch - JK 2098
• K 43 H20 DBM(06366) 68
Portrait of the Art Critic Arthur Roessler JK 1631 Female Nude with Raised dress -JK 1308
• K 31
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Evidence of Kornfeld’s Bad Faith• Warned not to acquire art from Nazi-occupied Austria by
Swiss government• Swiss art dealers are a profession requiring due
diligence under Swiss law• Schiele’s works (Austrian artist whose collectors
murdered) a “red flag” to Kornfeld• Kornfeld knew of Grunbaum provenance of Dead City
and was on notice of contents of 1925 Wurthle catalog showing other ’56 sale items as Grunbaum’s
• No Austrian export license• No Swiss import documents• Failed to record seller’s name in ink in business records• Lukacs had no ownership documents• Concealment of Lukacs name until late 1990’s until
Lukacs conveniently dead 70
Why Did Kornfeld Keep Images of Benesch and Roessler?
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How Did Leopold Get Dead City?
Egon Schiele’s
Chief Inspector Heinrich Benesch and His Son Otto (1913 72
Otto Benesch• Knew Egon Schiele• Art dealer and Schiele expert• Knew Otto Kallir in Vienna• Taught at Harvard When Kallir in New York• Director of Albertina Post-WW II• Conducted major sale of Albertina works on paper through
Gutekunst & Klipstein in May 1956• Wrote introduction to 1956 Kornfeld Schiele Catalog
containing Grunbaum works• Wrote introduction for Kallir’s 1957 Galerie St. Etienne
Catalog containing Grunbaum works• Knew Schieles illegally exported from Austria and belonged
to Grunbaum• Personal friend of Eberhard Kornfeld
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Arthur Roessler
Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Arthur Roessler74
Arthur Roessler
• Knew Egon Schiele• Owned Dead City before Fritz Grunbaum• Knew Otto Kallir in Vienna• Wrote essay for 1956 Kornfeld Schiele
Catalog• Knew artworks stolen from Fritz Grunbaum
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Otto Demus
President, Bundesdenkmalamt 1946-1964
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Otto Demus
• Inventoried Fritz Grunbaum’s Schiele collection for Schenkerin September 1938
• In charge of BDA which required export licenses for Schieles1946-1964
• Would have had to approve May 1956 sale of Albertina’sworks on paper through Gutekunst & Klipstein
• Would have had to approve export of Schieles in 1956 to Switzerland
• Worked closely with Albertina head Otto Benesch following World War II
• Impossible Demus was ignorant of Swiss Schiele laundering• Postwar Demus persecuted Jews by forcing them to make
donations to Austrian museums in exchange for export licenses
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Mathilde Lukacs: Red Herring?Why the Sister-in-law Story Fails Under
Austrian Law
• Mathilde Lukacs story complete fabrication• Even if Mathilde Lukacs had managed to come
into possession of Fritz Grunbaum’s art collection she would have had no authority to sell it under Austrian inheritance law
• Mathilde Lukacs story irrelevant under Austrian Civil Code
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Otto Kallir
1923 - Neue Galerie, Vienna
1939 – Galerie St. Etienne, New York
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Otto Kallir’s 1930 Catalogue RaisonéeShows Grunbaum’s Ownership
• Kallir was Fritz Grunbaum’s Vienna Dealer, founder NeueGalerie
• Borrowed Dead City and 25 Schieles including Girl with Black Hair from FG’s collection in 1928 for Hagenbund Show
Egon Schiele’s “Dead City” 1911 80
9/18/1956 Kornfeld Invoice
K 1 Fritz Grunbaum’s Dead City
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Otto Kallir’s Direct Knowledge Dead City and Other Artworks Were Grunbaum’s
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Kallir/Kornfeld Connection
• Kallir Moved to New York in 1939• Tried to do business with Nazis 1939• 1955 Kallir co-published Kollwitz catalogue
raisonnée with Kornfeld• 1956 Kallir bought 20 Schieles from 1956
Kornfeld catalog including Dead City• Not an arm’s-length transaction
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Kornfeld and Kallir: World’s Largest Collections of Unprovenanced Kaethe
Kollwitz Works• Dr. August Klipstein of Gutekunst & Klipstein
published Kaethe Kollwitz catalogue raisonnée• Kaethe Kollwitz artworks stripped from German
museums by Nazis• 1955 Kollwitz catalog republished jointly between
Otto Kallir and Eberhard Kornfeld• Today, Kallir’s Galerie St. Etienne in New York has
world’s largest inventory of Kollwitz works• Today, Kollwitzs sold freely without provenances
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Oberlin College – Egon Schiele’s Girl With Black Hair
U.S. Museums Falsifying Provenance - Example
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Kornfeld 1956 Schiele Catalog #14 – Girl With Black Hair
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Litt, Steven: Paintings In Oberlin Linked to War Looting
The Plain Dealer, March 1, 1998
• “The Schiele drawing, which depicts a young woman nude from the waist up, may have been looted by the Nazis from the collection of Fritz Grunbaum, who died in Dachau in 1940”
• “Rudolph Leopold, benefactor of the Leopold Museum, has said that in addition to Dead City, 16 other Schieles in American museums, including Girl With Black Hair in Oberlin, share the same ownership history.”
(emphasis supplied)
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Art Loss Register
• Oberlin asked Art Loss Register to check provenance of Girl With Black Hair in 2003
• ALR reported to Oberlin that Girl was possibly Grunbaum’s
• ALR told Oberlin that the MathildeLukacs/Switzerland story was doubtful
• Told Oberlin to research pre-war catalogs• Oberlin did nothing
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Art Loss Register
• Private organization• Owned/formed by auction houses to
operate at a profit• Conflicts of interest inherent leave advice
tainted• Not necessarily an impartial organization
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1928 Neue Galerie Receipt List of Works from Fritz Grunbaum
1925 Wurthle Catalog Provenance
1925 Wurthle and 1928 Hagenbund
Provenances of Girl with Black Hair
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Sale of Girl with Black Hair on the same September 18, 1956 Invoice with Dead City
K 14 Girl with Black Hair
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Austria’s Reaction To This Terrible Scandal?
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2008 Birthday Party/Exhibition of KornfeldPrivate Collection at Albertina
ROUTES THROUGH MODERN ART. FROM THE COLLECTION OF EBERHARD W. KORNFELD7 November 2008 - 8 February 2009
In honour of the 85th birthday of Swiss art dealer Eberhard W. Kornfeld, some 200 works from his remarkable private art collection are on exhibit at the Albertina. The auction house owner and art publisher is a distinguished expert on prints and the author of catalogues raisonnés on Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Käthe Kollwitz and numerous other artists. Like the collection as a whole, the exhibition focuses on multifaceted selections of their works, as well as works by the collector’s close friends Pablo Picasso, Sam Francis and Alberto Giacometti.
Grunbaum Works in Austria
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Two Standing Female Nudes
• JK 1084• Currently at the
Leopold Museum in Vienna
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Verchlungene Akte (Umarmung)
• JK 1147• Currently at the
Leopold Museum in Vienna
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Seated Girl with Yellow Cloth
• JK 1278• Currently at the
Leopold Museum in Vienna
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Devotion
• JK 1418• Currently in the
Leopold Collection
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Standing Girl with Orange Stockings
• JK 1488• Currently in the
Leopold Collection
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Liegende mit hochgeschobenerUnterwäsche
• JK 1550• Currently at the
Leopold Museum in Vienna
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Crouching Nude (Self-Portrait)
• JK 2482• Currently at the
Leopold Museum in Vienna
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Three Female NudesBackside Female Nude
• JK 511/513• Currently at the
Leopold Museum in Vienna
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Dead City III
• JK 213• Currently at the
Leopold Museum
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Grimacing Man
• JK 705• Currently at the
Leopold Museum in Vienna
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Self-Portrait as Penitent
• JK 942• Currently at the
Leopold Museum in Vienna
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Standing Man Draped in Red Shawl
• JK 1420• Currently in the
Private Collection of Dr. Leopold
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Red Blouse
• JK 1394• Currently at the
Leopold Museum
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Embracing Nudes
• JK 1606• Currently at the
Leopold Museum in Vienna
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Aunt and Nephew
• JK 1797• Currently at the
Albertina in Vienna
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Female Nude Seated on Red Draper, Back View
• JK 1504• Currently at the
Albertina in Vienna
Grunbaum Works in the United States
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Chief Inspector Benesch and His Son Otto
• JK 1403/1305• Currently at the
Harvard University Art Museum
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Kneeling Nude, Front View
• JK 1556• Currently at the
Arkansas Art Center
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Embrace
• JK 1674• Currently at the
Morgan Library (bequest of Fred Ebb)
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Self Portrait
• JK 686• Currently at the
Morgan Library (bequest of Fred Ebb)
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Girl Putting on Shoe
• JK 475• Currently at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York
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Town on the Blue River
• JK 742• Whereabouts
unknown (formerly on permanent loan to MoMA), possibly with Gerstl family
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