These are important names but we must always remember that theyre simply representative of very very many fates and the nazi era. By them given the large number of objects we provenance researchers work with and the many names we encounter that we cant even properly identify cases like these are very important as examples they enable us to demonstrate how the mechanism of expropriation and looting functioned and how certain objects ended up in museums. And of course each object has a very moving story to tell of the fate of its former owners. And. The town of falling in is located in southwestern germany. This is where the jewish couple errands and i gotto zalman who were evident collectors loot from the late 1920 s. Until they were forced to flee nazi germany in late 1935. Providence researcher eras schmeiser was examining the collection of lead because museum in frankfurt. She was checking its legality when she found that the museum had a madonna figure that had belonged to the solom
this was once a center of the nazi party in munich and here where the nazis planned the systematic seizure of jewish assets today a belated restitution for those crimes is being worked on. the backs of documents that have arrived at the central institute for our history in munich are a treasure trove for the art world provenance researcher michael hop has received the entire archive of the uli as buller our dealership from the years 1933 to 1945 to work through. it could be a huge opportunity to locate lost artwork from jewish collections. as this that s i finish. this can be like looking for a needle in a haystack we have at least $1500.00 photos like this to digitize. we have a total of nearly 40000 of burleigh s transactions that we re working on and figuring out so we have a lot of work ahead of us i mean my god performs the. order . pick up some big talk. a little from asa. to hoot and stein james blish woulda fritz goodman i got to 0 in on. these are important names but