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Maximilian Kellner (5 February 1869 Groß Meseritsch / Velké Meziříčí, Moravia – 25 December 1940) was a merchant and art collector.
Life[edit]
Born in Moravia, Kellner lived from 1932 with his wife Katharina, known as Käthe (née Pollatschek, born in 1884), at Praterstraße 17, in the 2nd district of Vienna.
The Kellner family company, founded in 1912, was headquarted in Rossitz (Rosice) near Brünn (Brno). Maximilien and his brothers Arnold (1864-1939 ) and Heinrich Kellner (born around 1862) werepartners. [1]
Maximilian had an extensive art collection focusing on 17th-century Dutch painters such as Aelbert Cuyp, Dirck Hals, Jacob Ochtervelt, Adriaen van Ostade, Jan Steen and Gerard Terborch, as well as miniatures and some works by Austrian artists such as Hugo Darnaut, Johann Michael Neder and Olga Wisinger-Florian.[1][2]
Part of the collection - the paintings, some furniture, sculptures and works of applied art - was sold at auction at the beginning of December 1929 by the Auktionshaus Rudolf Lepke in Berlin.[1][3][4]
Nazi era[edit]
After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in March 1938, Maximilian and Käthe Kellner had to declare their assets to the Nazi authorities due to of their Jewish origins. Käthe Kellner's asset declaration included a list of art objects. Maximilian Kellner died in December 1940 in Vienna.[1]
Restitution claims for Nazi looted art[edit]
Restitution example[5]
Restitution decision source [6]
Restitution decision Austria [7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Kellner, Maximilian | Lexikon Provenienzforschung". www.lexikon-provenienzforschung.org. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
- ^ "JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY (FRENCH, 1767-1855) A young lady called Madame de Senonnes, in red silk dress".
Maximilian Kellner, Vienna, in 1924. The Albertina, Vienna; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 18 May 1949, lot 795. Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, inv. no. 320, M/D 0470; sale, part II, Sotheby's, London, 1 May 1980, lot 95.
- ^ Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus <Berlin> (1929). "Galerie eines wiener Sammlers: Versteigerung: 3. Dezember 1929". Galerie eines wiener Sammlers: Versteigerung: 3. Dezember 1929 (in German). doi:10.11588/DIGLIT.19445.
- ^ "A barn interior with a maid milking cows | Master Paintings Part II | 2022". Sotheby's. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
- ^ "Linz restituiert Emil Noldes „Maiwiese" - Linz restitutes Emil Nolde's 'Meadow in May'". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
- ^ "Der Beirat gemäß § 3 des Bundesgesetzes über die Rückgabe von Kunstgegenständen aus den Österreichischen Bundesmuseen und Sammlungen, BGBl. I Nr. 181/1998 i.d.F. BGBl. I Nr. 117/2009, (Kunstrückgabegesetz), hat in seiner Sitzung vom 3. Juli 2014 einstimmig folgenden" (PDF).
- ^ "Recommendations 2014 - Art Database". www.kunstdatenbank.at. Retrieved 2024-01-27.