Siegfried Aram (Q17326176)
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German Jewish lawyer, art dealer and art collector (1891-1978)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Siegfried Aram |
German Jewish lawyer, art dealer and art collector (1891-1978) |
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Private Collection, Vienna, Austria; USA [2]- 1942Aram Gallery (Siegfried Aram), New York, NY, acquired from a private collection1942 -Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Aram Gallery [3] (English)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has altered the provenance of a major painting in one of its galleries to reflect new information about the artwork’s troubled history in Germany before and after World War II.The museum now acknowledges that the 17th-century painting, titled “The Rape of Tamar,” and attributed to the French artist Eustache Le Sueur, was owned by a Jewish art dealer, Siegfried Aram, who fled Germany in 1933 as Hitler took power.Mr. Aram fought for decades, unsuccessfully, to reclaim the painting, which he argued had been illegally taken by a businessman, Oskar Sommer, to whom he sold his home in Germany. (English)
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The galleries were closed and everything was [confiscated or lost in forced sales for cheap price], houses, works of art, even our “Schlössle” Schapbach. We, my uncle and I, had acquired this in the 1920s, it is a […] building with terraces, a park, a farm, which I set up as a museum […] with many stone Baroque figures (…) small hermitages, which were inhabited by friends in the summer, for example by Professor Hans Hildebrandt and other art critics and painters. (English)
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Dr. Siegfried F. Aram was a German born New York Art Dealer. Aram was a partner of Ehrhardt Galleries in Berlin. He left Germany in 1934 and opened Aram-Ehrhardt Galleries in New York in 1935. In 1937 he changed the name of the gallery to S.F. Aram, Inc. (English)
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For years, a large, richly colored painting depicting a moment of sexual violence has stopped visitors in Gallery 634 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Once viewed as an image of Tarquin attacking Lucretia, as in Roman legend, the 17th-century work attributed to Eustache Le Sueur has more recently been described as a portrayal of the rape of Tamar from the Old Testament.Now newly discovered evidence suggests the painting’s history is as painful as its theme.Old court records indicate the painting, purchased by the Met in 1984, is likely the same one a Jewish art dealer, Siegfried Aram, left behind when he fled Germany as Hitler took power in 1933.The records, which recount the dealer’s unsuccessful effort to reclaim his painting for more than a decade after the war, were discovered by a researcher and photographer, Joachim Peter, who has spent years studying the history of Heilbronn, the German city where Mr. Aram once lived, including the treatment of its Jews and the devastation from Allied bombing.Mr. Aram, the records show, argued in courtroom after courtroom that he was a victim of the Nazi era, a Jew put in an impossible position because of the persecution launched by Hitler. First forced to sell his home under duress for too little money to a German businessman, Oskar Sommer, he argued that Mr. Sommer then illegally walked off with his artwork as well. (English)
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- arzwiki سيجفريد ارام
- dewiki Siegfried Aram
- enwiki Siegfried Aram