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Widow of Hitler’s art dealer, Erhard Göpel, bequeaths Max Beckmann works to Berlin (English)
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In 1944, Göpel travelled to the Netherlands and Belgium on an art shopping spree with Hildebrand Gurlitt, the dealer whose collection caused a worldwide media sensation when it was discovered in the Munich apartment of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in November 2013. During their business trip they visited Beckmann, who was living in Amsterdam in exile with his wife Quappi. As a victim of Joseph Goebbels’s campaign against Modern art, Beckmann had left Germany the day before the Degenerate Art exhibition opened in Munich in 1937. (English)
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Like her husband, Barbara Göpel, who died last year at the age of 95, was an art historian. Her bequest includes a painting by the German artist Hans Purrmann, two paintings by Beckmann—a self-portrait in a bar (1942) and a portrait of Erhard Göpel (1944)—as well 46 of his drawings and 52 prints. (English)
Catherine Hickley
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