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Frederick Mont
Austrian art dealer, owner of Frederick Mont Inc in NY and Galerie Sanct Lucas in Vienna (1894-1994)
- Adolf Fritz Mondschein
- Frederick (Adolf Fritz) Mont (Mondschein)
- Fritz Mondschein
- frederick Mont
- Frederick, Dr. Mont
- Frederick Mondschein
- F. Mondschein
- Mont Inc.
- A.F. Mondschein
- Frtis Mondschein
- Frederik Mont
- Mondschein
- Frederick Mont, Inc
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Mont has been linked to Bernhard Witke, a Gestapo officer and appraiser who was arrested following the war for high treason and sentenced to three and a half years in prison, according to evidence compiled by Karen Daly, VMFA’s assistant registrar and Nazi-era provenance administrator. (English)
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Mont acquired the painting from a dealer who worked with the Gestapo, according to Anne Webber, co-chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, the London nonprofit that secured the painting’s return. The painting’s provenance was scrubbed, with records indicating that it came from the collection of one “Ritter von Schoeller, Vienna.” (English)
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1925
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1974
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By 1914, Benno Geiger (1882–1965), Rodaun, Austria, and sold before 1945.1 (By 1962, Frederick Mont, New York); purchased by the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, 1962. (English)
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Provenance: Galerie Charpentier, 76 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris; Frederick Mont, Inc., New York. (English)
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In 1953, the Austrian Federal Police wrote to Mr Priester to say his missing El Greco painting had been sold by the Gestapo to New York art brokers Knoedler, arriving in the city in 1952.However the dealer Frederick Mont refused to comply, denying all knowledge of the painting and thereby halting the investigation.But Ms Webber revealed: 'It turns out Knoedler had the painting for more than 30 years and showed it worldwide with a false provenance. (English)
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Recherchen Anne Webbers (CLAE Co-Chair) zufolge gelangte das Greco-Gemälde über den Gestapo-Schätzmeister Bernhard Wittke in den Besitz der Galerie St. Lucas, die es 1952 an ihren einstigen Geschäftsführer Fritz Mondschein verkaufte, der 1939 nach New York ausgewandert war.Frederick Mont, wie er sich nach seiner Emigration nannte, trat Anteile an dem Bild an Kollegen ab: an den gebürtigen Deutschen Rudolf Heinemann (ab 1935 Pinakos Gallery, NY) sowie an die Knoedler Gallery (New York), die noch 1990 bei einer Ausstellung in Kreta als Leihgeber aufschien.Dass die Provenienz des Gemäldes einen Makel hatte, wussten sämtliche der involvierten Händler. Webber verweist in diesem Zusammenhang auf den Verfasser des Katalogtextes namens "R. Johnson". (German)
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A painting thought to be a rare and important “lost” work by the 16th‐century German artist Matthias Grtlnewald has been disclosed by its owner, the Cleveland Museum of Art, to be a fake.The painting, depicting the Christian martyr St. Catherine of Alexandria, was purchased by the museum in ‘1974 for an undisclosed price ‘from a New York source. (Yesterday, reports in the trade put the price at between $1 million and 2 million and named the seller as Frederick Mont, a New York private dealer with offices on Park Avenue.)At the time of the phrchase, Sherman E. Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum, hailed the work as “a beautiful, mysterious painting, and of great historical importance.” He said that the picture had been “properly exported and its title guaranteed, and that's as far as we've gone.” The museum did not have the provenance of the picture —that is, the history of its ownership—but Dr. Lee said that it was obtainable. (English)
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An anonymous dealer has happily returned an El Greco portrait seized by the Nazis to the heirs of its rightful owners. The canvas has been restored to the descendants of Julius Priester, a Viennese banker, industrialist, and art collector.It was listed in exhibition catalogues as being in the collection of New York’s Knoedler & Co, who bought the painting from the Viennese dealer Frederick Mont. Mont acquired the painting from a dealer who worked with the Gestapo, according to Anne Webber, co-chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, the London nonprofit that secured the painting’s return. The painting’s provenance was scrubbed, with records indicating that it came from the collection of one “Ritter von Schoeller, Vienna.” (English)