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11 May 2014
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Druet Collection, Paris Private collection, Paris Dr. Meirowsky, Berlin Wildenstein & Co., New York Margaret Thompson Biddle, Paris Anonymous sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 14 June 1957, lot 21 Private collection, since 1957 (English)
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Christie’s Restitution Department has researched thousands of artworks, adding to the scholarship and ownership history. The department has also facilitated resolution to hundreds of Nazi-era claims, including major works of art. Examples include Vincent van Gogh's Meules de blé (1888), a case settled between the Cox Collection and the heir of Max Meirowsky and heirs of Alexandrine de Rothschild. (English)
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According to newspaper Die Wochenzeitung, one piece in his collection which is not on display in Winterthur is ‘Lied aus der Ferne’ one of three variations by Hodler depicting the painter’s wife Berthe in a blue dress.The painting belonged to Polish-born German-Jewish industrialist and art collector Max Meirowsky, who was held in detention by the Nazis in Berlin in 1938.In November of that year he was forced to sell his art collection at an auction for works ‘from non-Aryan possession’ to finance his flight from Germany to Switzerland, where he died in 1949. (English)
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Sammlung Werke von van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Gauguin und Pissarro sowie Jan van Goyen, Scholderer und Snider Enteignung Arisierung der Meirowsky AG als "Dielektra AG" (bis 2006 als GmbH). Zur Finanzierung seiner Auswanderung war er gezwungen seine Kunstsammlung über eine Judenauktion in Berlin beim Auktionshaus H.W.Lange (18.11.1938) zu versteigern. Er emigrierte mit einem kleinen Teil der Kunstsammlung (22.06.1939 verkauft er in Amsterdam Jan van Goyens Küstenlandschaft mit Festung für 1200 Gulden (= 1587 Reichsmark) an den Kunsthändler D.A.Hoogendijk). (German)
Max Meirowsky
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