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18 July 1875Gregorian
20 July 1941
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After the German invasion of France, Dorville fled Paris to his château in the Dordogne, where he died of natural causes in July 1941. The Vichy government confiscated his property, and his vast art collection was auctioned in Nice on four consecutive days in late June 1942. Neither his will nor his earlier bequest to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs suggested that Dorville had intended such an auction, and no effort was made to transfer his possessions to the family members who still stood to inherit the collection. In the end, almost all of his family would be deported and murdered in April 1944. The Dorvilles, like so many other haut-bourgeois, assimilated, republican “israélite” families of the French prewar era, would essentially cease to exist. (English)
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pätestens 1933: Armand Dorville, ParisAuktion: Vente aux enchères du cabinet d'un amateur parisien. Hall du Savoy, Nizza, 24.–27. Juni 1942, Los 176, Tafel XLVIILéopold Dreyfus, Nizza, erworben bei obiger Auktion(...)Spätestens 28. April 1944: Raphaël Gerard, ParisNach September 1953: Hildebrand Gurlitt, DüsseldorfDurch Erbgang an Cornelius Gurlitt, München/SalzburgSeit 6. Mai 2014: Nachlass Cornelius Gurlitt (German)
14 January 2020
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14 July 1918Gregorian
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After Dorville’s death, the paintings were sold at auction in Nice in 1942, but his family never received the revenue. Many family members were later deported and murdered. Dorville’s heirs, represented by Antoine Djikpa and Antoine Delabre at a handover ceremony at the Chancellery on 22 January, said they were grateful for Germany’s “commitment to memory and justice.”Grütters said in a statement that the tragic family story “demonstrates very clearly how perfidiously Nazi art-looting operated. The misery and injustice suffered by the Dorville family at the hands of the Nazis cannot be compensated for. But we can and must make it visible. Every restitution counts.” (English)
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- enwiki Armand Dorville
- frwiki Armand Dorville