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Guggenheim Settles Litigation and Shares Key Findings (English)
31 January 2009
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In 1919, Thannhauser opened a branch of his father’s Munich gallery, the Moderne Galerie, in Lucerne, Switzerland, with Siegfried Rosengart. Thannhauser opened a third branch of the gallery in Berlin in 1927.As a result of persecution by the Nazis, Thannhauser and his family, who were Jewish, emigrated from Berlin to Paris in April 1937, where he operated a private gallery. In order to leave Germany, Thannhauser was compelled to liquidate his gallery’s considerable inventory of classic German and modern art and to pay the reichfluchtsteur (exit tax). In December 1937, Thannhauser’s Berlin gallery formally registered for closure due to pressures from the Nazi regime.After the fall of France and the occupation of Paris by the Germans, the Thannhausers’ Parisian residence/gallery was plundered by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) and Möbel-Aktion, two Nazi looting agencies. The majority of the antique furniture, books, and art and much of the gallery’s archives taken at that time have never been recovered.Thannhauser and his family immigrated to the United States in December 1940. (English)
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