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Bavarian State Painting Collections

January 31, 2023

The Bavarian State Painting Collections (German: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen), based in Munich, Germany, oversees artwork held by the Free State of Bavaria. It was established in 1799 as Centralgemäldegaleriedirektion.[1] Artwork includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, video art and installation art. Pieces are on display in numerous galleries and museums throughout Bavaria.

Direktion der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen
(Bavarian State Painting Collections)
administration plaque

Galleries in Munich

Further information: List of painters in the Pinakothek

Galleries outside Munich

Nazi looted art in Bavarian State Collections

In 2012, the Bavarian State Paintings Collections announced the restitution of a painting from the workshop of Jan Brueghel the Elder to the heirs of Julius Kien of Vienna. Bavaria had acquired it from the collection of Fritz Thyssen.[2][3]

In 2013, the Bavarian State Painting Collections agreed to return two watercolours by Max Pechstein to the heirs of Professor Curt Glaser, confirming that the auction of his art collection and library were entirely due to Nazi persecution.[4][5]

In 2016, the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim, a German-Jewish art dealer and collector, sued the German state of Bavaria, arguing in court papers that it has refused to turn over works of art that the heirs say were looted by the Nazis before World War II.[6][7]

In June 2016, an investigation by Süddeutsche Zeitung revealed that the Bavarian State Museums had "restituted" looted artworks to the families of high ranking Nazis,[8][9][10] which the museum denied in a statement that was criticized as "both inaccurate and misleading".[11]

In 2017, the Bavarian State Painting Collections agreed to return a painting of the Raising of Lazarus to the heirs of James von Bleichröder, represented by Mondex Corporation of Toronto, Canada, confirming that the auction of Von Bleichröder's art collection in 1938 was due to Nazi persecution. (footnote to, https://www.pinakothek.de/sites/default/files/downloadable/2020-04/Blog%20Bleichroder_EN_080420.pdf).

In 2019, one of the paintings that Bavaria had "sold" to the family of Hitler's photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, was returned to the heirs of its original Jewish owners, Gottlieb and Mathilde Kraus, eight decades after it was confiscated by the Gestapo.[12][13]

In 2019 three museums in Munich returned nine artworks to the heirs of Julius and Semaya Franziska Davidsohn, who were sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where Julius died in August 1942 and Semaya died a few months later.[14]

In 2021, the Bavarian State Painting Collections returned a medieval work to the heirs of Drey and his business partners, Ludwig and Friedrich Stern.[15]

In 2021, Munich's Neue Pinakothek restituted Fischerboote bei Frauenchiemsee (1884) by the 19th-century Austrian painter Joseph Wopfner to the heirs of Nuremberg toy manufacturer and art collector Abraham Adelsberger.[16]

In 2021, the Bavarian State Paintings Collections refused to allow Germany's national tribunal that reviews claims of art lost in the Nazi era to review the case of Picasso's Madame Soler, which the family of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy had claimed. "It is simply inexplicable that the state should refuse to use a mediation mechanism it established itself", said Hans-Jürgen Papier, the commission's chairman and a former president of Germany's constitutional court.[17]

See also

References

  1. ^ PDF
  2. ^ "Restitution to the heirs of Julius Kien of a floral still-life from the workshop of Jan Brueghel the Elder by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  3. ^ "Restitution of a floral still-life from the workshop of Jan Brueghel the Elder by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen 10 July 2012". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  4. ^ "Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen restitute two watercolors by Max Pechstein from the Curt Glaser Collection and a painting by N.V. Díaz de la Peña from the George Behrens Collection". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  5. ^ "A Just and Fair Solution Reached by Bayerische Staats and Professor Curt Glaser Heirs" (PDF). (PDF) from the original on 2013-09-19. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  6. ^ Bowley, Graham (6 December 2016). "Jewish Dealer's Heirs File Suit Over Art in Bavarian State Collection". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "Bavaria sued over Nazi-looted artworks". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  8. ^ "Munich's Looted Art Bazaar". www.lootedart.com. Sueddeutsche Zeitung. from the original on 2016-07-03. Retrieved 2021-05-21. The Monuments Men tracked down Nazi looted art. Only for German museum directors to return it to the families of the Nazi leaders rather than to the Jewish families who were its rightful owners.
  9. ^ Carvajal, Doreen; Smale, Alison (2016-07-15). . The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2016-07-15. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  10. ^ "Bavaria Kept Nazi-Looted Art in Museums". Artnet News. 2016-06-28. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  11. ^ "Return of artworks by Bavarian government and museums to high-ranking Nazi families: 29 June 2016: Commission for Looted Art in Europe issues its response to the Bavarian State Paintings Collections statement on return-sales to high-ranking Nazi families". 2019-05-02. from the original on 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2021-05-21. In response to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung article 'Munich's Looted Art Bazaar' of 25 June and the Commission for Looted Art's Press Release of 27 June, the Bavarian State Paintings Collections (Bayerische Staatsgemaeldsammlungen, BSGS) issued a statement on 28 June attempting to refute the facts set out in both documents. The Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE) has today issued a full response showing that the BSGS statement is both inaccurate and misleading. The BSGS statement, which makes no mention of the victims of Nazi looting, and refers to provenance research as "tedious", further confirms the concerns expressed by families and the press across the world over the last few days, and underlines the need for root and branch reform in the way research and restitution are carried out in Germany, so that justice becomes fully available.
  12. ^ Waxman, Olivia B. (21 March 2019). "Looted by Nazis, Recovered, Sold Back to Hitler's Photographer's Daughter—How One Painting Got Back to Its Rightful Owners". Time. from the original on 2019-05-01. Retrieved 2021-05-21 – via www.lootedart.com. According to documentation received by the Commission in 2011, the Bavarian State Paintings Collection had sold the painting in 1962 for 300 German Deutsche Marks. The buyer? Henriette Hoffmann-von Schirach, Heinrich Hoffmann's daughter and the wife of Baldur von Schirach, the Hitler Youth leader who became the Nazi governor of Vienna and oversaw the deportation of the city's Jews. Henriette, it turned out, had requested and was granted several works from her father's collection.
  13. ^ "New Report Reveals Munich Museums Sold Artworks Looted by Nazis". www.lootedart.com. from the original on 2017-03-13. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  14. ^ "Munich Museums Restitute Nazi-Looted Artworks". www.lootedart.com. from the original on 2020-06-24. Retrieved 2021-05-21. The works—five paintings, three prints, and a wooden panel with ivory reliefs—were confiscated from the couple's apartment in Munich in 1938 and found their way into the collections of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, the Bavarian National Museum, and the State Collections of Prints and Drawings in 1955. When the Davidsohns were sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where Julius died in August 1942 and Semaya died a few months later, in April 1943, the works ended up at a collecting point at Munich's Königsplatz before they were acquired by the museums.
  15. ^ "The Bavarian State Painting Collections Has Returned a Medieval Work Unlawfully Sold by Nazis to Its Rightful Heirs". www.lootedart.com. from the original on 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2021-05-21. A.S. Drey's gallery partners, which included the Sterns, as well as Franz and Paul Drey, were all of Jewish heritage. In 1935, the Reich chamber of fine arts announced that their Munich art gallery would be dissolved. The dealers were then required to pay a massive sum and punitive taxes, which forced them to consign several works from their holdings, including the wooden panel of Saint Florian. It was bought by the Bavarian state in 1936.
  16. ^ Solomon, Tessa (2021-06-01). "German State Returns 19th-Century Painting Looted by Nazis". ARTnews.com. from the original on 2021-06-01. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  17. ^ Hickley, Catherine (2021-06-08). . The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2021-06-08. Retrieved 2021-06-17.

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The Bavarian State Painting Collections German Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen based in Munich Germany oversees artwork held by the Free State of Bavaria It was established in 1799 as Centralgemaldegaleriedirektion 1 Artwork includes paintings sculptures photographs video art and installation art Pieces are on display in numerous galleries and museums throughout Bavaria Direktion der Bayerischen Staatsgemaldesammlungen Bavarian State Painting Collections administration plaque Contents 1 Galleries in Munich 2 Galleries outside Munich 3 Nazi looted art in Bavarian State Collections 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksGalleries in Munich EditFurther information List of painters in the Pinakothek Alte Pinakothek Old Picture Gallery Neue Pinakothek New Picture Gallery Pinakothek der Moderne Modern Picture Gallery Schackgalerie Museum BrandhorstGalleries outside Munich EditAnsbach State Gallery in the Residenz Aschaffenburg State Gallery in the Schloss Johannisburg Augsburg State Gallery in the Katharinenkirche Augsburg State Gallery in the Glaspalast Bamberg State Gallery in the New Residence Bayreuth State Gallery in the New Palace Burghausen State Gallery in the Burghausen Castle Fussen State Gallery in the High Castle Neuburg an der Donau State Gallery in the Castle Ottobeuren State Gallery in the Benedictine Abbey Schleissheim Palace State Gallery in the New Palace Tegernsee Olaf Gulbransson Museum in the Kurpark Wurzburg State Gallery in the Wurzburg ResidenceNazi looted art in Bavarian State Collections EditIn 2012 the Bavarian State Paintings Collections announced the restitution of a painting from the workshop of Jan Brueghel the Elder to the heirs of Julius Kien of Vienna Bavaria had acquired it from the collection of Fritz Thyssen 2 3 In 2013 the Bavarian State Painting Collections agreed to return two watercolours by Max Pechstein to the heirs of Professor Curt Glaser confirming that the auction of his art collection and library were entirely due to Nazi persecution 4 5 In 2016 the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim a German Jewish art dealer and collector sued the German state of Bavaria arguing in court papers that it has refused to turn over works of art that the heirs say were looted by the Nazis before World War II 6 7 In June 2016 an investigation by Suddeutsche Zeitung revealed that the Bavarian State Museums had restituted looted artworks to the families of high ranking Nazis 8 9 10 which the museum denied in a statement that was criticized as both inaccurate and misleading 11 In 2017 the Bavarian State Painting Collections agreed to return a painting of the Raising of Lazarus to the heirs of James von Bleichroder represented by Mondex Corporation of Toronto Canada confirming that the auction of Von Bleichroder s art collection in 1938 was due to Nazi persecution footnote to https www pinakothek de sites default files downloadable 2020 04 Blog 20Bleichroder EN 080420 pdf In 2019 one of the paintings that Bavaria had sold to the family of Hitler s photographer Heinrich Hoffmann was returned to the heirs of its original Jewish owners Gottlieb and Mathilde Kraus eight decades after it was confiscated by the Gestapo 12 13 In 2019 three museums in Munich returned nine artworks to the heirs of Julius and Semaya Franziska Davidsohn who were sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where Julius died in August 1942 and Semaya died a few months later 14 In 2021 the Bavarian State Painting Collections returned a medieval work to the heirs of Drey and his business partners Ludwig and Friedrich Stern 15 In 2021 Munich s Neue Pinakothek restituted Fischerboote bei Frauenchiemsee 1884 by the 19th century Austrian painter Joseph Wopfner to the heirs of Nuremberg toy manufacturer and art collector Abraham Adelsberger 16 In 2021 the Bavarian State Paintings Collections refused to allow Germany s national tribunal that reviews claims of art lost in the Nazi era to review the case of Picasso s Madame Soler which the family of Paul von Mendelssohn Bartholdy had claimed It is simply inexplicable that the state should refuse to use a mediation mechanism it established itself said Hans Jurgen Papier the commission s chairman and a former president of Germany s constitutional court 17 See also EditFuhrermuseum List of claims for restitution for Nazi looted art Ernst Buchner curator Maria Almas Dietrich Hildebrand Gurlitt Munich Central Collecting PointReferences Edit PDF Restitution to the heirs of Julius Kien of a floral still life from the workshop of Jan Brueghel the Elder by the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen www lootedart com Retrieved 2021 05 21 Restitution of a floral still life from the workshop of Jan Brueghel the Elder by the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen 10 July 2012 www lootedart com Retrieved 2021 05 21 Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen restitute two watercolors by Max Pechstein from the Curt Glaser Collection and a painting by N V Diaz de la Pena from the George Behrens Collection www lootedart com Retrieved 2021 05 21 A Just and Fair Solution Reached by Bayerische Staats and Professor Curt Glaser Heirs PDF Archived PDF from the original on 2013 09 19 Retrieved 2021 05 21 Bowley Graham 6 December 2016 Jewish Dealer s Heirs File Suit Over Art in Bavarian State Collection The New York Times Bavaria sued over Nazi looted artworks Deutsche Welle Retrieved 2021 06 17 Munich s Looted Art Bazaar www lootedart com Sueddeutsche Zeitung Archived from the original on 2016 07 03 Retrieved 2021 05 21 The Monuments Men tracked down Nazi looted art Only for German museum directors to return it to the families of the Nazi leaders rather than to the Jewish families who were its rightful owners Carvajal Doreen Smale Alison 2016 07 15 Nazi Art Loot Returned to Nazis The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on 2016 07 15 Retrieved 2021 06 17 Bavaria Kept Nazi Looted Art in Museums Artnet News 2016 06 28 Retrieved 2021 06 17 Return of artworks by Bavarian government and museums to high ranking Nazi families 29 June 2016 Commission for Looted Art in Europe issues its response to the Bavarian State Paintings Collections statement on return sales to high ranking Nazi families 2019 05 02 Archived from the original on 2019 05 02 Retrieved 2021 05 21 In response to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung article Munich s Looted Art Bazaar of 25 June and the Commission for Looted Art s Press Release of 27 June the Bavarian State Paintings Collections Bayerische Staatsgemaeldsammlungen BSGS issued a statement on 28 June attempting to refute the facts set out in both documents The Commission for Looted Art in Europe CLAE has today issued a full response showing that the BSGS statement is both inaccurate and misleading The BSGS statement which makes no mention of the victims of Nazi looting and refers to provenance research as tedious further confirms the concerns expressed by families and the press across the world over the last few days and underlines the need for root and branch reform in the way research and restitution are carried out in Germany so that justice becomes fully available Waxman Olivia B 21 March 2019 Looted by Nazis Recovered Sold Back to Hitler s Photographer s Daughter How One Painting Got Back to Its Rightful Owners Time Archived from the original on 2019 05 01 Retrieved 2021 05 21 via www lootedart com According to documentation received by the Commission in 2011 the Bavarian State Paintings Collection had sold the painting in 1962 for 300 German Deutsche Marks The buyer Henriette Hoffmann von Schirach Heinrich Hoffmann s daughter and the wife of Baldur von Schirach the Hitler Youth leader who became the Nazi governor of Vienna and oversaw the deportation of the city s Jews Henriette it turned out had requested and was granted several works from her father s collection New Report Reveals Munich Museums Sold Artworks Looted by Nazis www lootedart com Archived from the original on 2017 03 13 Retrieved 2021 06 02 Munich Museums Restitute Nazi Looted Artworks www lootedart com Archived from the original on 2020 06 24 Retrieved 2021 05 21 The works five paintings three prints and a wooden panel with ivory reliefs were confiscated from the couple s apartment in Munich in 1938 and found their way into the collections of the Bavarian State Painting Collections the Bavarian National Museum and the State Collections of Prints and Drawings in 1955 When the Davidsohns were sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where Julius died in August 1942 and Semaya died a few months later in April 1943 the works ended up at a collecting point at Munich s Konigsplatz before they were acquired by the museums The Bavarian State Painting Collections Has Returned a Medieval Work Unlawfully Sold by Nazis to Its Rightful Heirs www lootedart com Archived from the original on 2021 05 10 Retrieved 2021 05 21 A S Drey s gallery partners which included the Sterns as well as Franz and Paul Drey were all of Jewish heritage In 1935 the Reich chamber of fine arts announced that their Munich art gallery would be dissolved The dealers were then required to pay a massive sum and punitive taxes which forced them to consign several works from their holdings including the wooden panel of Saint Florian It was bought by the Bavarian state in 1936 Solomon Tessa 2021 06 01 German State Returns 19th Century Painting Looted by Nazis ARTnews com Archived from the original on 2021 06 01 Retrieved 2021 06 02 Hickley Catherine 2021 06 08 Was This Picasso Lost Because of the Nazis Heirs and Bavaria Disagree The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on 2021 06 08 Retrieved 2021 06 17 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen Die Pinakothek Nazi Art Loot Returned to Nazis Bavarian Parliament Will Investigate Claims Looted Art Was Returned to Nazis German Lost Art Foundation Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bavarian State Painting Collections 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