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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

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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

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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

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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

• www.lootedartcommission.com/Washington-principles

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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.

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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

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• 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

• ther 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

property Under Austrian law:

• Fritz’s heirs take 50% of Fritz’s property
• Elizabeth’s (“Lily”) heirs take 50% of Fritz’s

property

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Jewish Property Declarations

• April 26, 1938 Law - penalty
• f

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 Kieslinger appraisal at 5,791 RM – Last time art collection declared was June 30, 1939 – almost a year after Mathilde Lukacs left Vienna

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Grunbaum Assets1938-1942 (Per Jewish Property Declarations)

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Kieslinger Inventory

• Annexed to July 1938 Fritz Grunbaum

property declaration

• Fritz was at Dachau since March 1938
• Lists 449 artworks belonging to Fritz
• 81 Schieles
• 5 Schiele oils by name – Dead City, Town
• n the Blue River
• 76 Drawings and watercolors (untitled)

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Kieslinger Inventory

• Establishes unequivocally that Dead City

stolen 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

• f title to artworks looted

throughout the Reich.

• Franz Kieslinger was Muhlmann’s

henchman

• In July, 1938 Kieslinger

inventoried Fritz Grunbaum’s art collection

* Petropoulos, Jonathan, The Faustian Bargain (Oxford University 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

• n to become a notorious

Nazi art looter

• Managing director of

Aryanized Weinmuller Auction house in late 1938

• Shows corruption,
• pportunity, motive and

probability

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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, Rochlitzer

informs 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 Vienna

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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 Grunbaum Collection 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’s ever obtained 1938-1960’s

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Schenker Export Application

September 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 Paintings 15 Water Colors 2 Pastel s 6 Miniatures 2 Oil Miniatures 10 Drawings 278 Drawings (some in color) 7 graphics 3 envelopes with misc. graphics 66 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

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What is the Leopold Museum?

• Created as “private foundation” by Austria

to purchase Rudolph Leopold’s collection

• f 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 Corruption

Egon 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 Klimt

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Swiss Financing

• f 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 Kornfeld

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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

• ther
• 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 Galerie

Correspondence

• 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)

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Gutekunst & Klipstein

• According to Swiss government’s Bergier

Report, 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 Legant February 14, 2005

• Kornfeld claims no written documentation
• f 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

• riginal signatures
• Kornfeld hiding in Switzerland
• Artworks mentioned in correspondence

don’t match up

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Dead City Entry in Kornfeld Inventory

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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 City April 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

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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)

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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

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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

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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 Roessler

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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 Schenker

in September 1938

• In charge of BDA which required export licenses for Schieles

1946-1964

• Would have had to approve May 1956 sale of Albertina’s

works 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 Raisonée Shows Grunbaum’s Ownership

• Kallir was Fritz

Grunbaum’s Vienna Dealer, founder Neue Galerie

• 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

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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 Mathilde

Lukacs/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
• perate at a profit
• Conflicts of interest inherent leave advice

tainted

• Not necessarily an impartial organization

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 Kornfeld Private Collection at Albertina

ROUTES THROUGH MODERN ART. FROM THE COLLECTION OF EBERHARD W. KORNFELD 7 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

101

Liegende mit hochgeschobener Unterwäsche

• JK 1550
• Currently at the

Leopold Museum in Vienna

102

Crouching Nude (Self-Portrait)

• JK 2482
• Currently at the

Leopold Museum in Vienna

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Three Female Nudes Backside 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

109

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

113

Chief Inspector Benesch and His Son Otto

• JK 1403/1305
• Currently at the

Harvard University Art Museum

114

Kneeling Nude, Front View

• JK 1556
• Currently at the

Arkansas Art Center

115

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

119

Girl with Black Hair

• JK 861
• Currently at the Allen

Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Ohio

120

I Love Antitheses

• JK 1187
• Estee Lauder Trust

121

Sleeping Girl

• JK 769
• Currently at the

Galerie St. Etienne in New York

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Standing Woman (Prostitute)

• JK 1045
• Currently at the

Museum of Modern Art in New York

123

Portrait of the Artist´s Wife

• JK 1711
• Formerly Santa

Barbara Museum of Art, whereabouts unknown

124

Russian Prisoner of War

• JK 1839/1449
• Currently at the Art

Institute of Chicago

125

Portrait of a Man

• JK 2081
• Currently at the

Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh

Grunbaum works in Switzerland

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Back View of Girl with Raised Hands

• JK 1598
• Currently at the

Coninx Museum in Zurich

128

Standing Boy

• JK 783
• Currently in the

Collection of E.W. Kornfeld

129

Boy in Sailor Suit

• JK 1633
• Currently in a Private

Collection

130

Self-Portrait in Profile Facing Right

• JK 1667/1577
• Currently at the

Coninx Museum in Zurich

131

Portrait of the Art Critic Arthur Roessler

• JK 1631/1308
• Currently in the

Collection of E.W. Kornfeld

132

Chief Inspector Benesch

• JK 2098
• Currently in the

Collection of E.W. Kornfeld

133

Female Nude, Back View

• JK 1970
• Currently at the

Coninx Museum in Zurich