Trove of Nazi era art records published
June 4 2014
Picture: Lostart.de
The Telegraph reports that Neumeister auction house in Germany has published details of the 32,000 art works it sold during the Nazi era, many of them from Jewish families. Justin Huggler reports:
Until recently, the Neumeister auction house has always claimed its records of that era were destroyed in an air raid. But last year it said it had discovered annotated catalogues from the time in a basement filing cabinet.
And this week it has made the information from those catalogues freely available on the Internet – the first time any German art dealer has publicly released its records from the Nazi era.
Their publication is the initiative of Katrin Stoll, who took over the auction house in 2008, and has no connection to Mr Weinmüller.
“I feel very fortunate to have this difficult task,” she told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.
You can find more details of the pictures concerned on the German government website, lostart.de here.
