Fritz Nathan (Q1418856)
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art dealer, adviser to Emil Bührle and Oskar Reinhart (1895-1972)
- Dr. Fritz Nathan
- Fritz Najean
- Fritz Mathan
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art dealer, adviser to Emil Bührle and Oskar Reinhart (1895-1972) |
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6 May 2014
30 June 1895Gregorian
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6 May 2014
28 February 1972
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6 May 2014
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Nathan, Peter geboren 26.7.1925 München, gestorben 30.12.2001 Zürich, ref., von St. Gallen. Sohn des Fritz ( -> 1). ∞ Barbara Neher, Tochter des Alex, Ingenieurs. 1944-52 Stud. der Kunstgeschichte in Basel, Genf und Zürich, Promotion in Basel. 1953 Eintritt in die Galerie des Vaters. (German)
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Nathan, Dr Fritz. St Gallen, Rorschacherstrasse 25. German refugee art dealer in Switzerland since 1935. Adviser to Buehrle, and intermediary between Fischer, Hofer and Buehrle. Has denied knowledge that paintings and drawings acquired by Buehrle from Fischer were looted; all evidence to the contrary. (English)
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During the Second World War Emil Bührle purchased around 100 artworks mostly from Swiss art dealers. From 1940 onwards, he increasingly sought advice from Fritz Nathan, a dealer based in St. Gall. (English)
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Buehrle, Emil. Oerlikon (nr Zurich). German munitions magnate, resident in Switzerland for twenty years. Believed naturalised Swiss. Owner of the Oerlikon arms factory. Important recipient of looted works of art by purchase from Fischer and Wendland. Advised principally by Natman and Montag. Direct purchases in Paris from Dequoy. (English)
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Erna Felicia and Hans Lachmann-Mosse, Mosse’s daughter and son-in-law, were unlawfully deprived of the drawing, 'Lady with Red Blouse', shortly after the Nazi takeover in Germany in 1933. Oskar Reinhart purchased the pastel from the art dealer Fritz Nathan in Munich in 1934. He had been regularly in touch with Nathan since 1928 and later helped him escape to Switzerland in 1936. He paid 3,632 Swiss Francs, which was a customary price for high-quality drawings by Menzel at the time. In 1940, Oskar Reinhart gave the work to the foundation, which he had established to make his art collection available to the public.Launched in 2012, the Mosse Art Restitution Project shed light on the circumstances that led to the bankruptcy of the Mosse publishing house as well as to the seizure of the collection and public auction of the objects in 1934 in Berlin. Mosse’s descendants had already left Germany. Due to these new insights, the foundation in its press release, writes that "the foundation board of the Oskar Reinhart Foundation contacted the heirs and offered to restitute the pastel, which had been expropriated from the family in 1934. Oskar Reinhart strictly avoided offers with unclear provenance in the 1930s. The foundation board is convinced that it acts in the interest of the founder by giving back a work that from today's perspective would not have been purchased by Reinhart if he had known about the exact circum-stances of the sale." (English)
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As a land of refuge for Jewish families and their possessions, as well as a turnstile for Nazi-sympathetic art dealers, Switzerland became an important art sales hub during and after the Nazi era.Several Swiss galleries, including Gutekunst Klipstein (now Kornfeld) in Bern (see infobox), Fischer in Lucerne and Fritz Nathan in Zurich organized major sales and auctions that allowed innumerable works of art to be transferred abroad, mainly to the US. Their archives, as well as those of Bruno Meissner and the Moos brothers, are believed to hold the answers to the conditions in which the works were appropriated for sale. (English)
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The second case, Ferdinand Hodler’s «Stockhornkette am Thunersee» also comes from the Silberberg collection, was auctioned by Graupe in Berlin in 1935, and was presumably brought to Switzerland via Fritz Nathan. Around 1945, Bern Professor of Medicine Berhard Walthard bought the painting, thinking it came from the A. Sutter collection in Oberhofen. In 1985, it showed up in an auction at Bern’s Galerie Kornfeld and was bought in good faith by Simon Frick, (former) cantonal government member in St. Gallen. (English)
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