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== Life == |
== Life == |
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Schloss was born to a [[Jewish]] family<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/dealer-blasts-french-art-plunder-case-article-1.849145 New York Daily News: "DEALER BLASTS FRENCH IN ART PLUNDER CASE" by Mike Claffey] September 26, 1999</ref> in [[Furth, Lower Bavaria]]. He married Mathilde Lucie Haas and together they collected works of art from the Northern and Southern Netherlands that became notable in the 1900s as the ''Ad. Schloss collection''. They held a gallery at ''Salon Adolphe Schloss'', residence 38, avenue Henri Martin, [[Paris]]. After Adolphe's death there, his widow continued to collect paintings and lent her works to various exhibitions as ''Mme. A. Schloss'' or ''Frau Adolphe Schloß in Paris''. |
Schloss was born to a [[Jewish]] family<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/dealer-blasts-french-art-plunder-case-article-1.849145 New York Daily News: "DEALER BLASTS FRENCH IN ART PLUNDER CASE" by Mike Claffey] September 26, 1999</ref> in [[Furth, Lower Bavaria]]. He married Mathilde Lucie Haas and together they collected works of art from the Northern and Southern Netherlands that became notable in the 1900s as the ''Ad. Schloss collection''. They held a gallery at ''Salon Adolphe Schloss'', residence 38, avenue Henri Martin, [[Paris]]. After Adolphe's death there, his widow continued to collect paintings and lent her works to various exhibitions as ''Mme. A. Schloss'' or ''Frau Adolphe Schloß in Paris''. |
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==The Schloss collection== |
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The collection was "regarded as one of the last great Dutch art collections to be assembled in 19th century France".<ref name=Lost>[https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2015/11/17/the-lost-paintings-the-schloss-art-collection/ The Lost Paintings – The Schloss Art Collection]</ref> It "contained many paintings from Dutch and Flemish masters including Rubens, Rembrandt, and Ruysdael".<ref name=Lost/> Other artists in the collection included Hals, Cuyp and Brueghel.<ref name = pilot /> Among the portraits was “Old man with a white beard and a black hat”, attributed to Rembrandt which was returned to the Schloss family in 1999 and is not now considered to be by Reubens.<ref> [https://www.theartnewspaper.com/1999/02/01/the-very-comical-tragedy-of-the-schloss-collections-rembrandt The Art Newspaper] </ref> |
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"Paintings were hung from floor to ceiling on the walls of the Schloss residence". <ref name=pilot>[https://pilot-demo.jdcrp.org/essays/adolphe-schloss-collection/ THE ADOLPHE SCHLOSS COLLECTION]</ref> During the lifetime of Adolphe Schloss, paintings from the collection were regularly loaned for exhibitions across Europe, including the 1903 exhibition in The Hague - Oude Portretten.<ref name = pilot /> |
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Revision as of 10:38, 20 April 2024
Adolphe Schloss | |
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| Born | 10 August 1842 |
| Died | 31 December 1910 |
| Nationality | French |
Adolphe Schloss (10 August 1842 – 31 December 1910) was a German-French art collector.
Life
Schloss was born to a Jewish family[1] in Furth, Lower Bavaria. He married Mathilde Lucie Haas and together they collected works of art from the Northern and Southern Netherlands that became notable in the 1900s as the Ad. Schloss collection. They held a gallery at Salon Adolphe Schloss, residence 38, avenue Henri Martin, Paris. After Adolphe's death there, his widow continued to collect paintings and lent her works to various exhibitions as Mme. A. Schloss or Frau Adolphe Schloß in Paris.
The Schloss collection
The collection was "regarded as one of the last great Dutch art collections to be assembled in 19th century France".[2] It "contained many paintings from Dutch and Flemish masters including Rubens, Rembrandt, and Ruysdael".[2] Other artists in the collection included Hals, Cuyp and Brueghel.[3] Among the portraits was “Old man with a white beard and a black hat”, attributed to Rembrandt which was returned to the Schloss family in 1999 and is not now considered to be by Reubens.[4]
"Paintings were hung from floor to ceiling on the walls of the Schloss residence". [3] During the lifetime of Adolphe Schloss, paintings from the collection were regularly loaned for exhibitions across Europe, including the 1903 exhibition in The Hague - Oude Portretten.[3]
Nazi art looting
Frau Schloss died in 1938 and the collection was left to their children Marguerite, Henry, Juliette and Lucien. By that time it was clear the respected collection had been targeted by the Nazis and the heirs moved what they could to Château de Chambon, Laguenne for safekeeping during the war, where it was looted by the Vichy government in 1943. Of the 333 objects seized there, only 230 were actually offered to Hitler's Führer museum and 49 were saved for France and given to the Louvre. After the war all were lost, but gradually 148 objects could be rediscovered. In 2016 a painting, Portrait of a Man by Van der Helst, looted from the Schloss collection in 1943 was to be auctioned at the Im Kinsky auction house in Vienna.[5] The lot was pulled at the request of the French government.[6]
References
- ^ New York Daily News: "DEALER BLASTS FRENCH IN ART PLUNDER CASE" by Mike Claffey September 26, 1999
- ^ a b The Lost Paintings – The Schloss Art Collection
- ^ a b c THE ADOLPHE SCHLOSS COLLECTION
- ^ The Art Newspaper
- ^ "Nazi-looted painting to be auctioned as owners' heirs fail to halt sale". the Guardian. 2017-04-23. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- ^ "Nazi-Looted Dutch Old Master Pulled from Auction- artnet News". 2020-11-27. Archived from the original on 2020-11-27. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
Links
- French government website
- English summary about the collection
- Soixante-dix tableaux de la collection de feu M. Adolphe Schloss : [mis en vente] à Paris, by Adolphe Schloss, Galerie Charpentier, 25 mai 1949.
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