Auf "durchaus rechtmässige Weise aus Frankreich in den Schweizer Kunsthandel gekommen"?: die Pariser Sammlungsankäufe des Kunsthaus Zürich und die Rolle der Zwischenhändler, 1940-1945 = "Arrived in the Swiss art trade from France in a perfectly legitimate way"? : the Paris collection acquisitions of the Kunsthaus Zürich and the role of the intermediaries, 1940-1945
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Beteilige Person: Sieber, Joachim 1985- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Paper
Sprache:Deutsch
Veröffentlicht: [2022]
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Abstract:"Arrived in the Swiss art trade from France in a perfectly legitimate way"? - The Paris collection acquisitions of the Kunsthaus Zürich and the role of the intermediaries, 1940-1945 In the years 1940-1945, the Kunsthaus Zürich pursued a restrictive policy of purchasing works from abroad. The small number of purchases was mostly made through individual trusted art dealers active in Switzerland, such as Walter Feilchenfeldt or Fritz Nathan, who previewed the works locally. Thus, art dealers played a central role, and purchasing decisions were made based on their offers and recommendations. Of the approximately 200 paintings and sculptures that entered the Kunsthaus Zürich collection between 1940 and 1945, relatively few came from abroad, and only ten are known to have come from Paris collections or the Paris art trade. In this article the role of the middlemen is traced based on the example of recent findings on the provenance of two Renoir paintings which were acquired by the Kunsthaus in 1943 through the agency of Theodor Fischer, Fritz Nathan, and Charles Montag from Roger Dequoy, the then representative of the Wildenstein Gallery. Today we know that one of the two paintings was once in the collection of the Jewish art collector Marcel Kapferer who deposited it at Galerie Wildenstein in 1939, and the other painting could probably be matched to an entry in the stock book of the Parisian art dealer Raphaël Gérard. This article outlines how the two paintings then entered the collection of the Kunsthaus Zürich, why so many intermediaries were involved and how they also related to each other.
Umfang:Illustrationen
ISBN:978-3-11-073760-8