| Owner: | Consorts Schloss — Paris, France | ||||
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| Collection: | (Schloss) Adolphe Schloss-The Schloss collection was assembled with great care by Adolphe Schloss, a German Jew who settled in Paris in the late 19th century. In August 1939, the collection was transferred to a vault at the Chateau de Chambon (Corrèze) for safekeeping. On April 16, 1943, a combination of Nazi policemen and French officials from the CGQJ worked together to confiscate the Schloss collection and transfer it to Paris for processing. There, the collection was split into three parts--the largest going to the Linz Museum project. That part of the collection (262 paintings) was transferred to the Führerbau (Munich) on 24 November 1943 where it remained untouched until 29-30 April 1945 when local Munich citizens broke into the building housing the collection and hundreds of other works and stole everything. Nearly half of the Schloss paintings are still unrestituted. | ||||
| Inventory No.: | Schloss 70 Kiste Nr. Muenchen Fuhrerbau 16 |
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| Artist: | 1592, Abel Grimmer | ||||
| Medium: | Paintings | ||||
| Title: | Mai ou Le Christ et la Samaritaine | ||||
| Description: | Diam. 25 cm Bois rond. [Round oil on panel] |
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| Provenance and Comments: | According to the “catalogue raisnné” by Reine de Bertier de Sauvigny on Jacob and Abel Grimmer (La renaissance du livre, 1991), this painting belonged to a set of 12 works depicting each month of the year, entitled “Les douze mois de l’année.” Abel Grimmer executed in 1592 the set that Adolphe Schloss acquired from Galerie Prickert in Nurnberg [Nuremberg]. Galerie Prickert, Nuremberg; Collection Schloss avant 1943; Galerie Lodi, Munich; Galerie Kraus, Paris, 1977. According to French archivists, there was a purported sale of this item at a Christie's sale on April 19, 1995. New research in France indicates that this is not the case. | ||||
| Archival Sources: | Bundesarchiv, B323/1038; fold3.com; ZIKG, Munich | ||||
| Measurements: | Diam. 25 cm | ||||
| Intake place: | 38 avenue Henri Martin, Paris | ||||
| Transfer place: | Chateau de Chambon, Laguenne, Corrèze | ||||
| Transfer date: | 1939-08-20 | ||||
| Transfer place: | Banque Dreyfus, Paris, France | ||||
| Transfer date: | 1943-08-11 | ||||
| Transfer place: | Jeu de Paume | ||||
| Transfer date: | 1943-11-03 | ||||
| Transfer place: | Führerbau, Munich | ||||
| Transfer date: | 1943-11-24 | ||||
| Linz No.: | 3108 | ||||
| Restituted? | No | ||||
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