(Q762753)

Mayer resigned from his curatorial post in 1931 and eventually fled to France in 1935, despite begin arrested by the Nazis two years earlier. While in Paris, Mayer continued working as an art historian under the pseudonym Henri Antoine, but he still faced Nazi persecution in France and fled Paris for the French countryside several times until his arrest and deportation in 1944. (English)

date of birth

27 October 1885^Gregorian

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10 October 2015

http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb10572156v

place of birth

Griesheim

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stated in

Integrated Authority File

retrieved

16 December 2014

date of death

12 March 1944

has cause

forced labour under German rule during World War II

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10 October 2015

http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb10572156v

place of death

Auschwitz

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reference URL

https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumer/holocaust/bio/bio_mayer.htm

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https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumer/holocaust/bio/bio_mayer.htm

languages spoken, written or signed

German

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stated in

BnF authorities

Bibliothèque nationale de France ID

10572156v

reference URL

http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb10572156v

10 October 2015

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Union List of Artist Names

Union List of Artist Names ID

25 April 2013

14 May 2019

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imported from Wikimedia project

German Wikipedia

art collector

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reference URL

https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumer/holocaust/bio/bio_mayer.htm

employer

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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Bavarian State Painting Collections

end time

1931

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stated in

14th-Century Painting to Sell at Auction Under Restitution Settlement with German-Jewish Art Historian’s Heir

reference URL

https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=UN328L675171

quotation

A specialist in Spanish and Italian art of the 16th and 17th centuries who served as chief curator of the Bavarian State Painting Collection and taught at the University of Munich in the years leading up to World War II, Mayer acquired the soon-to-be-auctioned di Cione work from prominent Berlin dealer Paul Cassirer sometime after 1927.Mayer resigned from his curatorial post in 1931 and eventually fled to France in 1935, despite begin arrested by the Nazis two years earlier. While in Paris, Mayer continued working as an art historian under the pseudonym Henri Antoine, but he still faced Nazi persecution in France and fled Paris for the French countryside several times until his arrest and deportation in 1944. (British English)

residence

Munich

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Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID

December 2021

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imported from Wikimedia project

German Wikipedia

notable work

El Greco, eine Einführung in das Leben und Wirken des Domenico Theotocopuli genannt El Greco

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significant event

persecution of Jews in the Nazi era

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reference URL

https://web.archive.org/web/20200424141504/https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumer/holocaust/bio/bio_mayer.htm

stated in

14th-Century Painting to Sell at Auction Under Restitution Settlement with German-Jewish Art Historian’s Heir

reference URL

https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=UN328L675171

quotation

The painting’s sale comes after a legal agreement was reached with the Diamond estate and heir of August Liebmann Mayer, a prominent German Jewish art historian and curator who was killed at Auschwitz in 1944.A specialist in Spanish and Italian art of the 16th and 17th centuries who served as chief curator of the Bavarian State Painting Collection and taught at the University of Munich in the years leading up to World War II, Mayer acquired the soon-to-be-auctioned di Cione work from prominent Berlin dealer Paul Cassirer sometime after 1927.Mayer resigned from his curatorial post in 1931 and eventually fled to France in 1935, despite begin arrested by the Nazis two years earlier. While in Paris, Mayer continued working as an art historian under the pseudonym Henri Antoine, but he still faced Nazi persecution in France and fled Paris for the French countryside several times until his arrest and deportation in 1944. In May 1942, Mayer’s Paris residence was seized by the ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg), the Nazi art-looting organization, and a portion of his holdings, including his extensive library, were sent to Berlin. (English)

reference URL

https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/holocaust_claims/gallery/liebmann_mayer_bio

Transport from Drancy to Auschwitz Birkenau on 07.03.1944

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claim for restitution of an artwork

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stated in

14th-Century Painting to Sell at Auction Under Restitution Settlement with German-Jewish Art Historian’s Heir

reference URL

https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=UN328L675171

restitution of Nazi-looted art

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reference URL

https://www.pinakothek.de/en/restitutions

https://www.pinakothek.de/sites/default/files/downloadable/2016-05/Pressetext_Mayer-Restitution_engl_.pdf

quotation

The restitution by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen of a portrait of a lady by Wilhem Thöny, a Madonna by Cristoforo de’ Moretti, an apostle by a Cologne Master and a 19th-century painting of Christ is to be made to the attorney Markus Stötzel, representing the daughter – who now lives in Los Angeles – of the Jewish art historian, August Liebmann Mayer (1885–1944). (English)

subject has role

Holocaust victim

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reference URL

https://archive.is/DVGW3

Commons Creator page

August Liebmann Mayer

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Commons category

August L. Mayer

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