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Distribution of confiscated artworks to various museums, and storage in the Altaussee salt mines

Correspondence Posse - Reich chancellery Correspondence between the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien and Posse and Reimer of the Sonderkonto Linz, and other documents regarding the distribution of confiscated artworks to various museums, and the storage of artworks in the Altaussee salt mines. The letters mention the collections of artworks, coins, and armory of the Jewish collectors Luis and Alphonse Rothschild, Leo Fuerst, and Alexander Hauser-Zdaril. Also contained are a number of maps of the Altaussee salt mines.

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Maps, Lists

Language : German

Acquisition of artworks abroad

Correspondence Posse - Reich chancellery Correspondence of Posse, Sonderauftrag Linz, and the German Foreign Office, Auswaertiges Amt, regarding the acquisition of artworks for the Fuehrermuseum in foreign countries: France, Switzerland, Sweden, The Netherlands, Hungary, Slovakia and Greece. Included is an exchange of letters concerning the confiscation of the Rothschild collection in Paris and the involvement of Haberstock.

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Correspondence Posse - Reich chancellery

Correspondence Posse - Reich chancellery Correspondence between Posse of the Sonderauftrag Linz and the Reich chancellery regarding the acquisition of several paintings by Lenbach, Croos, van Dyck and others.

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Confiscation of the assetts of the Benedictine monastery St. Peter and Michaelbeuren in Austria

Correspondence and other documents regarding the confiscation of the assetts of the Benedictine monastery St. Peter and Michaelbeuren in Austria, to the benefit of the Fuehrermuseum Linz Correspondence and other documents regarding the confiscation of the assetts of the Benedictine monastery St. Peter and Michaelbeuren in Austria, to the benefit of the Fuehrermuseum Linz. These assetts comprise mostly real estate, but include a precious library, an altarpiece of great value and valuable pieces of wrought silver in the monastery traesure.

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Correspondence on the transfer of artworks to the municipal art collection of the city of Breslau

Correspondence on the transfer of artworks to the municipal art collection of the city of Breslau Correspondence on the transfer of artworks to the municipal art collection of the city of Breslau, between Barthel, curator of the Schlossmuseum in Breslau, Posse of the Staatliche Gemaeldegalerie Dresden for the 'Sonderauftrag Linz', Gauleiter Hanke in Breslau, and others. The correspondence refers especially to artworks confiscated in the Generalgouvernement and in Silesia, and to artworks with any connection to Silesia, mentioned is e.g. the Mannheimer collection from Amsterdam. Fritz Sjölin Mannheimer was...

Type of Material : List of Artists, Official Documentation

Language : German

Collection Adolphe Schloss

Acquisition of artworks in Belgium Description and catalogue of the Collection Adolphe Schloss. Schloss was a Jewish French art collector, born to a Jewish family in Fuerth in Bavaria. He married Mathilde Lucie Haas and together they collected 333 works of art, mostly from the Netherlands, that became notable between World War I and World War II. They held a gallery at salon Adolphe Schloss residence 38, avenue Henri Martin, Paris. After Adolphe's death, his collection became the property of his wife Lucie, who died in 1938 and the collection was left to their children Marguerite, Henry, Juliette and Lucien....

Type of Material : Catalog, Official Documentation

Language : German

Acquisition of works of art in Paris

Acquisition of artworks in Belgium Correspondence of Voss and Posse for the Sonderkonto Linz (Fuehrermuseum), the Reich chancellery and the Reichskreditkasse, with notes, receipts, and account statements, regarding the acquisition of artworks in Paris. Mentioned dealers: Goepel, Hermsen, Haberstock, Mandl, Brueschwiler, Zarnowski, Stroelin, Holzapfel, Almas-Dietrich, de Horne, Postma, et al. Mentioned collections: Schloss, Sedelmayer, Craig. Mentioned artworks by Goya, Tiepolo, Cuyp, Robert, van de Velde, Defregger, Winterhalter, van Dyck, Rubens, Fragonard, Blarenberghe, de Vries et al. Additionally the...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : French, German

Note on an approval of funds for the Zeitblom-Tafel

A single note on an approval of funds for the Zeitblom-Tafel A single note on an approval of funds for the Zeitblom-Tafel The note belongs to previous file (no 13142242).

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Acquisition of artworks in Budapest

Correspondence regarding the acquisition of artworks in Budapest and Vienna for the Fuehrermuseum Linz Correspondence of the Reich chancellery, Posse, the art dealer Herzig in Vienna, the haulage firm Schenker and others, regarding the acquisition of artworks in Budapest and Vienna for the Fuehrermuseum Linz. Most of the documents concern the transfer of the Zeitblom-Tafel, an altarpiece depicting St. Elisabeth, from the collection of Baron Herzog, from Budapest to Dresden. Other artworks mentioned are a sculpture by Canova and a drawing by Raffaele.

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Acquisition of artworks in The Netherlands

Correspondence concerning the acquisition of artworks in The Netherlands Correspondence of Voss of the Gemaeldegalerie Dresden, with various art dealers, concerning the acquisition of artworks in The Netherlands, including long list of available artworks, e.g. of the Sammlung Koenigs. Frames 2168 - 2170: List of acquisitions from the Boymans Museum. Frames 2172 - 2186: List Sammlung Koenigs. Frames 2207 - 2297: Lists of drawings and paintings, probably made by art dealer Boerner.

Type of Material : List of Artists, Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

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