Jenny Steiner (Q73730320)

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Primavesi, Olmütz and Vienna (1913–his d. 1926); Mrs. Otto (Eugenia Butschek) Primavesi, Vienna (from 1926); Hugo Bernatzik, Vienna (in 1928; sold or consigned to Neue Galerie); [Neue Galerie, Vienna, from 1928; sold to Steiner]; Jenny Pulitzer Steiner, Zedlitzgasse, Vienna and New York (by 1937–d. 1958; seized by the Nazis; inv., 1938, as Mädchenbild; by 1941 in the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien; restituted to Mrs. Steiner in 1951); her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. André Mertens, Westport, Conn. and New York (1958–63); Mrs. André (Clara Steiner) Mertens, Westport, Conn. and New York (1963–64) (English)

Houses by the Sea

end time

1938

has cause

seizure

persecution of Jews in the Nazi era

2 references

reference URL

https://onlinecollection.leopoldmuseum.org/en/object/526-houses-by-the-sea-row-of-houses/

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Eugenie “Jenny” Steiner, née Pulitzer (1863–1958), was the owner of a silk manufactory and an art collector. In 1938, immediately after the Anschluss, she fled from the National Socialists to Paris, later emigrating to the USA. Egon Schiele’s cityscape Houses by the Sea (Row of Houses), a painting from Jenny Steiner’s collection, was confiscated and sold by the National Socialists in 1938. It was put up for auction at the Dorotheum in 1940, but initially found no buyer. In 1941, it was put up for auction again at the Dorotheum and purchased by Josefine Ernst. Her son, Johann Ernst, sold the painting to Rudolf Leopold in 1955. (English)

1 October 2023

Leopold Museum in Vienna accused over Nazi-looted art

reference URL

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2008/04/01/leopold-museum-in-vienna-accused-over-nazi-looted-art

significant event

claim for restitution of an artwork

1 reference

reference URL

https://onlinecollection.leopoldmuseum.org/en/object/526-houses-by-the-sea-row-of-houses/#provenance

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« Eugenie “Jenny” Steiner, née Pulitzer (1863–1958), was the owner of a silk manufactory and an art collector. In 1938, immediately after the Anschluss, she fled from the National Socialists to Paris, later emigrating to the USA. Egon Schiele’s cityscape Houses by the Sea (Row of Houses), a painting from Jenny Steiner’s collection, was confiscated and sold by the National Socialists in 1938. It was put up for auction at the Dorotheum in 1940, but initially found no buyer. In 1941, it was put up for auction again at the Dorotheum and purchased by Josefine Ernst. Her son, Johann Ernst, sold the painting to Rudolf Leopold in 1955. Since then, the painting Houses by the Sea (Row of Houses) has belonged to the core of the Leopold Collection for Rudolf Leopold, who successfully championed the work of Egon Schiele throughout his life.Since the painting is undoubtedly the property of the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, but it was just as clearly seized from Jenny Steiner in 1938, it was an important concern of the Leopold Museum to find a joint solution with the heirs after Jenny Steiner.After long negotiations, it was initially possible in 2011 to reach a fair and equitable solution with Jenny Steiner’s only granddaughter.In 2012, a joint solution was also found with the other groups of heirs. » (English)

Commons category

Jenny Steiner (née Pulitzer)

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