User:Eli185/Max von Mandl-Maldenau
Austrian entrepreneur and art collector (3 août 1865 Prossnitz - 6 août 1942 Lisbon)
Life
[edit]Born on August 3 1865 in Prossnitz, Max Mandl-Maldenau managed branches of a weaving mill and leather wholesaler in Vienna and Königinhof an der Elbe (now Dvůr Králové nad Labem, Czech Republic). He married Elsa and lived in Vienna on Kochgasse 14.
Art collection
[edit]Their art collecton included paintings by Old Masters like Jan van Eyck, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Jacopo da Ponte-Bassano. When Austria merged with Nazi Germany in the Anscluss of 1938, they were forced to flee the Nazis. The art collection was acquired by Nazi dealer Friedrich Welz. Elsa fled to France, dying in 1939, while Max escaped to Portugal and died in 1942.[1]
In 1953, their son-in-law Richard L. Winton-Wiener searched unsuccessfully for the collection at institutions like Dorotheum and Galerie Welz. In 1962, their children filed claims with the Fonds zur Abgeltung von Vermögensverlusten. In 1966, they received some compensation for seized properties. Following research under the 1998 Art Restitution Act, the Österreichische Galerie returned Johann Peter Krafft's Male Portrait in 2011..[1]
- ^ a b "Mandl-Maldenau, Max | Lexikon Provenienzforschung". www.lexikon-provenienzforschung.org. Retrieved 2024-12-19.