Max Silberberg (Q1913457)
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German Jewish entrepreneur and art collector (1878-1942) died Theresienstadt concentration camp
- Max Zilberberg
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German Jewish entrepreneur and art collector (1878-1942) died Theresienstadt concentration camp |
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12 May 2014
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3 May 1942
8 May 1945
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Max Silberberg Breslau • by 1928 ? until 1932 ? The earliest reference to an ownership by Max Silberberg of Manet, La Sultane, is given in the catalogue of Ausstellung Edouard Manet 1832–1883, Gemälde, Pastelle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin 1928, no. 35. No documents regarding a sale of the painting and its acquisition by Max Silberberg can be found in the well preserved archive of the Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris, AStEGB, Report from Dr. M. Tatzkow to von Trott zu Solz, Law firm, Berlin, 20 March 2009, p. 9, a copy of which was sent to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection on 16 April 2009. The painting is featured hanging in Max Silberberg's house in Karl Scheffler, «Die Sammlung Max Silberberg», in Kunst und Künstler (30) 1931/32, pp. 9 (ill.), 14. In April 1932, Max Silberberg turned down a loan request by the Conseil des musées nationaux, Paris, that wished to include the Sultane in the Manet Centennial Exhibition at the Orangerie des Tuileries, vaguely referring to a loan to a different party already made. (English)
23 March 1935
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Adolf Rothermundt, Dresden (acquired circa 1914)Max Silberberg, Breslau (acquired by 1923)Sale: Paul Graupe, Berlin, 23rd March 1935, lot 27 (forced sale by Max Silberberg)Alfred & Marie Erlich, New York Nathan J. & Sara N. Cohn, Mount Vernon (acquired from the above)Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above on 9th November 1959) John & Frances L. Loeb, New York (acquired from the above on 4th January 1960)The American Friends of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (a bequest from the above in 1997)The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (a gift from the above in 1997) Restituted to Gerta Silberberg on 1st February 2000, and placed on loan with The Israel Museum until 2013 (English)
23 March 1935
23 March 1935
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This painting, completed in 1869, has changed hands often, but has belonged to passionate collectors such as the painter Amand Gautier, its first owner, a friend of Monet, François Depeaux, one of the first collectors of Impressionism, or Max Silberberg, an industrialist from Wrocław in Silesia, who had to sell the painting in 1932 for economic reasons. Between each of these owners, the painting passed through the doors of several of the most famous art dealers: Durand-Ruel, Bernheim-Jeune in Paris and Paul Cassirer in Berlin.According to the sale records, in 1932 the painting was purchased by a “Mrs Benedict”, who purchased numerous other works; she is noted as “Benedict de Chollet” in other documents, but has never been identified. It is therefore difficult to determine whether she made the purchase in a personal capacity or as an intermediary for a third party.We lose track of the painting after this last reference. (English)
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Mit dem Stockhorn-Bild Hodlers hat das Ehepaar Frick dem Kunstmuseum allerdings ein Ei ins Nest gelegt, mit dem es seit Jahren nicht so recht umzugehen weiss. Schon mehrfach wurde darüber berichtet: Denn das Bild ist «kontaminiert», wurde es doch seinem damaligen Eigentümer, dem jüdischen Industriellen Max Silberberg, zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus verfolgungsbedingt entzogen, indem er es – wie andere Werke auch – an einer Auktion 1935 verkaufen musste. Silberberg und seine Frau wurden später in Auschwitz ermordet. (Alemannic)
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Provenance : Ambroise Vollard, Paris ; Bernheim-Jeune, Paris ; Ambroise Vollard, Paris ; Durand-Ruel, Paris ; Brown, Baden (?) ; Magda Mauthner von Markhof, Vienne ; Hugo Moser, Berlin ; galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne ; galerie S. Rosengart, Lucerne ; Max Silberberg, Breslau ; vente S. et S. (Silberberg et Simon), galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9 juin 1932, n° 13, repr. cat., non vendu ; Paul Rosenberg, Paris ; collection particulière, Pays-Bas ; Domenica Walter. (French)
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Max Silberberg [d. 1944], Breslau; (sale, Paul Graupe, Berlin, 12 October 1935, no. 64). (Sale, Karl und Faber, Munich, 30 May 1975, no. 448); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; repurchased 2003 by Ratjen Foundation from the heirs of Max Silberberg; purchased 2007 by NGA. (English)
8 April 2024
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Enteignung 1935 musste er einen Großteil seiner Sammlung verkaufen (mehrere Auktionen bei Paul Graupe), um Überleben zu sichern. Der Restbestand Silberbergs wird 1940 in Breslau arisiert. Restitution 1999 erfolgte die Rückgabe von zwei Zeichnungen Caspar David Friedrichs "Frau mit Umschlagtuch (Studie einer Frau) - 1804" und Vincent van Goghs "L`Olivette, Olivenbäume vor dem Alpillengebirge", sowie Hans von Marées "Selbstbildnis/Mann mit gelbem Hut" und nachfolgend rechtmäßiger Ankauf des Gemäldes von der SPK. 2000 wurde das Gemälde von Oswald Achenbach "Italienische Landschaft" durch Bundesregierung aus eh. Bestand CCP München restituiert. (German)
Autre cas avec un tableau de Max Lieberman vendu par le collectionneur d'art Max Silberberg en 1934. Il a été établi que la vente a eu lieu sous la contrainte des nazis. Le Musée d'art de Coire, qui avait reçu en donation la peinture en 1992, a décidé en 2000 de la retourner à l'héritier de Max Silberberg. Et ce en invoquant des raisons morales en conformité avec les Principes de Washington. (French)
La famille Allemande Silberberg, par exemple, a retrouvé un de ses Cezanne, au musée de l’Orangerie à Paris. Mais sa représentante Monika Tatzkow a expliqué à Cyril Sauvageot qu’elle essaie en vain de le récupérer. (French)
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1942 Deportation ins Kloster Grüssau, danach weiter nach Theresienstadt, wo er ermordet worden ist. (German)
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1935 musste er einen Großteil seiner Sammlung verkaufen (mehrere Auktionen bei Paul Graupe), um Überleben zu sichern. Der Restbestand Silberbergs wird 1940 in Breslau arisiert. (German)
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The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, the foundation which runs the Berlin State Museums, has announced its intention to return two works of art to the daughter-in-law of Max Silberberg who died in a concentration camp.Silberberg, an industrialist from Breslau, once owned one of the most important private collections of the Weimar Republic. Seized by the National Socialist regime, his pictures were sold at a forced auction in 1935. A Van Gogh drawing entitled “Olive trees before the Alpillen mountains” (shown here) went to the Kupferstichkabinett, and a Hans von Marées painting, “Self-portrait or man with a yellow hat” went into the Nationalgalerie collection. The chairman of the Kulturbesitz Klaus-Dieter Lehmann indicated that purchase of the two works may be possible. (English)
The painting was originally owned by Max Silberberg, a German Jewish industrialist whose renowned art collection, one of the best in pre-war Germany, was seized by the Nazis and sold in a series of forced auctions before he and his wife Johanna were deported, initially to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz where they died in the Holocaust. But Max Silberberg's son Alfred and his wife Greta managed to escape to England. Alfred Silberberg died in 1984 but his widow Greta took up the search for the artworks that had belonged to her father-in-law.In 1999, she became the first British relative of a Holocaust victim to recover a work of Nazi-looted art, a Van Gogh drawing worth more than €6 million.After further extensive research, a year later she was granted restitution of Boulevard Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps by the Museum of Israel in Jerusalem, where it had been donated. (English)
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Hans von Marées’ Die Labung (1879/80) had belonged to the Jewish industrialist Max Silberberg of Breslau, who was forced to sell the artwork in 1934, under pressure from the Nazis. Silberberg and his wife were both murdered in Auschwitz. (English)
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MNR 1002 Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926) Neige au soleil couchant...Ce tableau de Monet figure sous le no 22 dans le catalogue de la vente « S. et S. », qui s’est tenue à la galerie Georges Petit, à Paris, le 9 juin 1932. Dans son catalogue raisonné publié en 1974, Daniel Wildenstein indique qu’il s’agit là de la vente « Silberger » ; dans la nouvelle édition de 1996, il corrige le nom du vendeur en Silberberg, qui correspond à Max Silberberg, un industriel de Breslau, collectionneur d’art du XIXe siècle, mort en déportation.D’après l’étude Loudmer à Paris, héritière de l’étude Bellier qui assura la vente, les procès-verbaux de cette vente n’auraient apparemment pas été conservés : un catalogue annoté en possession de l’étude Loudmer mentionne une adjudication du Monet pour 60 000 F à un « Benedict de Chollet », personnage non identifié pour l’instant. D’autres pistes sont ouvertes par les archives de la galerie Feilchenfeldt, qui indiquent que le tableau aurait été adjugé à Bellier pour le prix de réserve mais qu’il figure aussi sur la liste des huit tableaux qui ne furent pas vendus et retournèrent à leur propriétaire (d’après une communication écrite de Walter Feilchenfeldt du 21 octobre 2000 au musée d’Orsay). Par ailleurs, deux œuvres de la vente de 1932 figurent également dans une vente organisée par Paul Graupe à Berlin le 23 mars 1935 : La Poésie, de Corot, et un dessin de Van Gogh. (French)
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