Museum Bonn resolved a dispute with restorative successor dealer Alfred Flehthayma
To keep the work of the German expressionist Adolph Paul Zeehausa, Bonn Art Museum will pay half the market value of the pre-war owner's heir
ADOLF PAUL ZEEHAUS
lighthouse with a rotating beam. 1913
Source: bloomberg.com
Art Museum in Bonn resolved the dispute with the heir to restorative art dealer Alfred Flehthayma (Alfred Flechtheim) - one of the most important collectors of modern art in Germany before the Nazis came to power. To keep the job "with a rotating lighthouse beam" of the German expressionist Adolph Zeehausa Paul (Paul Adolf Seehaus), Bonn Art Museum will pay half the market value of the heir to the pre-war owners. The cost of the work was not disclosed.
Grand-nephew of Dr. Mike Flehthayma Halton (Mike Hulton) from California, in addition to paintings by Adolf Paul Zeehausa, tries to return a number of works from the collection of his late cousin, in particular works by Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann and Paul Klee. Bonn Museum in Germany, first settled the dispute with restorative Halton.
As Alfred Flehthayma been distributing products that are later found Nazi ideologues "degenerate", the dealer has become a target for harassment even before the official came to power National Socialists. Once in 1933 Flehthayma emigrated from Germany to Dusseldorf gallery manager and a member of the Nazi Party Vemel Alex (Alex Voemel) confiscated all of its contents. Unfortunately, the inventory of the collection Flehthayma not preserved, so the settlement of disputes over restitution of all it is very confusing: the circumstances of loss and provenance of each work has to figure out alone.
Just restore the paintings Zeehausa provenance could not be . We know that in 1932 it has provided Flehthayma an exhibition in Berlin. Then he emigrated, and the picture was probably among those that withdrew Alex Vemel. Bonn Art Museum bought it at auction in 1949.
Halton plans received for the painting Zeehausa money to spend on the study of pre-war German art market.
Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI
Sources : artinvestment.ru
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