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The Collection of German Prints (German: Sammlung Deutscher Drucke) or SDD is the virtual German national library. Founded in 1989 by an association of six German libraries it covers the entire German-language literature. Each library is responsible for a specified period of time: 1450–1600: Bavarian State Library (Munich)
The painting has belonged to Spitzweg's nephew-in-law Major Karl Loreck, Hugo Helbing in Munich, E. Ullmann in Vienna, H. Meyer in Munich (from October 1937) and H. E. Martini in Augsburg (from 1951). On 5 April 2008 it was sold at auction for 69,600 euro. [3] Since the 1950s, it has also gone under the name Gnomen (English: Gnomes). This was ...
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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.
The same painting would reach at Sotheby's in London the equivalent of €4.5 million in a later auction in 2007. [3] In 1997, another oil painting of Bauernfeind, The Port of Jaffa , was sold at the Van Ham Kunstauktionen in Cologne for 1,510,000 DM , thus becoming the most expensive 19th-century painting ever sold in Germany.
Daniel Chodowiecki was born in Danzig, and at least partly identified as Polish, although he only spoke German and French. His paintings and hundreds of prints, book illustrations and political cartoons are an invaluable visual record of the everyday life and the increasingly complex mentality of Enlightenment Germany, and its emerging ...
Following a 2016 legal action against the auction house to reveal the identity of the purchaser, that person (a Holocaust survivor) was traced and agreed to sell the painting back to David Toren, heir of the original owner from whom it was stolen by the Nazis, for the original auction price paid, and the work has subsequently been on display at ...
The Dorotheum (German pronunciation: [ˌdoːʀoˈteːʊm] ⓘ) is one of the world's oldest auction houses and is the largest auction house of art items in Continental Europe. [1] Established by Emperor Joseph I in 1707, it has its headquarters in Vienna on the Dorotheergasse and branches in other European countries. [ 2 ]