Henry Bromberg (Q111846297)
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German Jewish art collector (1878-1971)
- husband of Hertha B. nee Calmon, daughter of Alfred Calmon
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Henry Bromberg |
German Jewish art collector (1878-1971) |
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27 May 1878Gregorian
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February 1971
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Martin Bromberg, Hamburg; By descent to Henry and Hertha Bromberg, Hamburg; With F. Kleinberger (Allen Loebl), Paris, before 20 December 1938 (sold under duress by the above); With Victor Mandl, Wiesbaden, 1939; With Georges Wildenstein, Paris, 1939; With Yves Perdoux, Paris, 22 February 1941; With Galerie Maria Almas Dietrich, Munich, 22 February 1941 – March 1941, bought for 18.750 RM (Provision Paul A. Jurschewitz, inv. no. 59); Sold by the above to the Reichskanzlei, Berlin for 35.000 RM, intended for the proposed Führermuseum in Linz ('Sonderauftrag Linz'), March 1941 (inv. no. 1557); Discovered by the Allied 'Monuments Men' in the salt mines at Alt-Aussee, Austria in 1945 (inv. no. 3065); Transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 15 July 1945 (inv. no. 4416);Restituted to the French state, Musées Nationaux Récupération, 3 June 1949 (inv. no. 387); Dépot de l’État of the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1950–1960; From where deposited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chambéry, 1960; Restituted in 2016 to the heirs of Henry and Hertha Bromberg. (English)
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Henry and his wife, Hertha, fled Germany in the late 1930s, and en route to the United States, they sold the painting in 1938 in Paris, where it began a long and dangerous wartime journey, reported by the New York Times.The painting changed hands multiple times between 1938 and 1941, when a German dealer sold it to Hitler’s Reich Chancellery. (English)
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