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26 August 1901Gregorian
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6 January 1992
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Buchholz, Karl. Lisbon, 50 avda da Liberdade. Berlin book dealer who opened a branch in Lisbon in 1943. Suspected of having worked for von Ribbentrop and Goebbels, and of possible traffic in loot. Partner of Lehrfeld, Portuguese national. (English)
12 May 2018
Joseph Goebbels’s propaganda ministry then commissioned qualified art experts to sell other works of art in order to obtain foreign currency for the imperial treasury and the war. Among these art sellers were Ferdinand Möller, Karl Buchholz, Bernhard A. Böhmer and the Dresden art historian, Hildebrand Gurlitt. (English)
12 May 2018
Philippe Dagen
Le 31 mai 1938, Goebbels crée la Kommission zur Verwertung der Beschlagnahmten Werke Entarteter Kunst, commission pour l'exploitation des œuvres d'art dégénéré : il faut rentabiliser le pillage...Ils ouvrent une salle de vente au château de Schönhausen, près de Berlin.Quatre marchands y ont pour fonction de vendre les œuvres : Karl Buchholz, Bernhard Böhmer, Ferdinand Möller et Hildebrand Gurlitt (French)
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Estate of the artist, 1914 [1]; to Galerie von der Heyde, Berlin, by 1934 [2]; sold to Herbert Kurz (1892-1967), Meerane, Germany, 1934 [3]. Acquired by Karl Buchholz, Berlin [4]; on consignment to Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery), New York, August 16, 1938 [5]; seized by the Alien Property Custodian, May, 1944; sold through Curt Valentin, New York (auction of property vested by Alien Property Custodian) [6] to Henry Pearlman (1895-1974), New York, 1944 [7]; acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1956 (Gift of the Henry Pearlman Foundation).). (English)
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OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit Reports Name Index A to E National Archives.pdf
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Valentin left the Flechtheim Gallery in 1934 and began working in the Berlin gallery of Karl Buchholz, who was not Jewish and who would later, around 1938, become one of four Nazi-authorized art dealers engaged in marketing massive amounts of art being removed from museums, according to Petropoulos and other experts on the art history of the Nazi era. (English)
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Buchholz, Karl. Lisbon, 50 avda da Liberdade. Berlin book dealer who opened a branch in Lisbon in 1943. Suspected of having worked for von Ribbentrop and Goebbels, and of possible traffic in loot. Partner of Lehrfeld, Portuguese national. Pre-war Berlin partner of Curt Valentin, German refugee dealer now established in New York (Buchholz Gallery, East 57th Street). Valentin is believed to have had no contact with Buchholz during the war. (English)
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In Switzerland alone, Susan Ronald recounts, the four favored art dealers used by the Third Reich—Ferdinand Möller, Bernhard Bohmer, Karl Buchholz, and Hildebrand Gurlitt—sold some 8,700 objects between 1937 and 1941. Curt Valentin, a half-Jewish refugee from Germany who operated the Karl Buchholz Gallery in New York and who died in 1954, has long been considered the conduit for a number of looted artworks that found their way to the U.S. (English)
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- dewiki Karl Buchholz (Kunsthändler)
- enwiki Karl Buchholz (art dealer)