Lempertz (officially Kunsthaus Lempertz KG) is a German auction house which emerged from a bookstore and art gallery founded 1845 in

Bonn, Germany Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

. It is entirely owned and controlled by the Lempertz family and headquartered in

Cologne, Germany Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urba ...

Early years

Lempertz's roots go back to 1802 when Johann Matthias Heberle (1775–1840) opened a printing company in Cologne in 1802, which was later expanded to include an “antiquarian and auction house”. The first auction of the J. M. Heberle company took place in 1811. After the company's founder died in 1840, his 24-year-old employee Heinrich Lempertz (1816–1898) took over the company, which from then on became “J. M. Heberle (H. Lempertz). Mathias Lempertz (1821–1886), the brother of Heinrich Lempertz, opened the “Buch- und Kunsthandlung Heberle-Lempertz” in 1845 as a branch of the Cologne company at Fürstenstrasse 2 in Bonn. In the same year, the first public auction of August Wilhelm Schlegel's posthumous library took place on December 1. In 1854 the Bonn branch became an independent company owned by Mathias Lempertz. In 1875 Peter Hanstein (1853–1925) bought the company, paying 20,000 gold marks for the name Math. Lempertz, bookstore and antiquarian bookshop. Three years later he founded the Peter Hanstein Verlag, which focused on history, philosophy and theology. In 1888 the bookstore moved to new premises in Hof 40, later in Franziskanerstraße 6 in Bonn. As more paintings by old masters and applied arts were auctioned, a branch was opened in Cologne in 1902, which was initially located at Domhof 6 in the house of the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum. In 1908 Lempertz was the first European auction house to start auctioning East Asian art. In 1918 the Math. Lempertz company acquired the classicist house Fastenrat at Neumarkt 3, corner of Cäcilienstraße 48, from the estate of Johannes Fastenrath. After Peter Hanstein's death in 1925, his two sons Hans Hanstein (1879–1940) and Josef Hanstein (1885–1968), who had been partners since 1912, inherited the company. Manfred Faber converted and expanded the office building on Neumarkt in 1933/34 before being murdered in the Holocaust. From 1937 to spring 1938

Heinrich Böll Heinrich Theodor Böll (; ; 21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972). Bio ...

apprenticed as a bookseller in the Lempertz bookstore in Bonn.

Nazi Germany 1933-1945

Lempertz was involved in auctioning off Jewish property seized by the Nazis or sold due to Nazi persecution. 228 artworks from Jewish art dealer Max Stern (1904–1987) whose gallery was closed by the Nazi Reich Chamber of Fine Arts was sold off at Lempertz. On 12./13. December 1939, the collection of the Jewish art dealer

Walter Westfeld Walter Westfeld or Westfield (4 March 1889 – May 1945) was a German Jewish art collector and art dealer whose collection was plundered by Nazis. Westfield was murdered in the Holocaust. Early life Walter Westfeld, brother of the painter Ma ...

(1889–1943) arrested by Nazis and plundered, was sold off at Lempertz.

Lempertz after 1945

Bookstore

In 1947 the bookstore was re-established as Mathias Lempertz Buchhandlung und Antiquariat GmbH in Bonn at Fürstenstrasse 1. It gradually developed into a university bookstore and in 1983 also became the official depository bookstore of the Bibliotheca Vaticana publishing house. In 1996 the publisher Franz-Christoph Heel bought the bookstore and in the following year founded the book publisher "Edition Lempertz" in Bonn, whose book program deals particularly with topics of Catholic theology and regional publications. The manager of Edition Lempertz was Antje-Friederike Heel, who in 1999 also took over the management of Matthias Lempertz Buchhandlung und Antiquariat GmbH. In 2003 Edition Lempertz and Siegler Verlag were merged. The Siegler Verlag program mostly includes military history publications, published under the imprint of the Brandenburg publishing house. Its naming rights come from the former military publisher of the German Democratic Republic. On December 31, 2005, the Lempertz bookstore in Bonn was closed after more than 150 years.

Auction house

After the war, Josef Hanstein (1885–1968) and his son Rolf Hanstein (1919–1970) continued to run the “Kunsthaus Lempertz”. The building has been a listed building since September 3, 1993. From 1953 to 1957 the first exhibitions of the Roman-Germanic Museum and the Wallraf-Richartz Museum took place there. Since 1958 the house has held separate auctions of modern art. In 1965 the first foreign office was opened in New York, further representative offices followed. The Lempertz Contempora gallery for contemporary art was also opened in 1965. After Rolf Hanstein's premature death in a car accident in 1970, his son Henrik Hanstein (* 1950) took over the business. As the leading German auction house, Lempertz has been auctioning contemporary art as well as photography and photographic works in its own auctions since 1989. With its representative offices in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Brussels, Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai, the Kunsthaus Lempertz is one of the most important art auction houses in Europe today. Around 14 auctions are held each year, accompanied by illustrated catalogs and one-week preview. In addition to the spring and autumn auctions, at which ancient art, applied arts, modern and contemporary art, photography and photo works as well as East Asian art are auctioned, there are the two auctions for books and graphics, as well as the tribal art auction in spring. The auctions take place in Cologne as well as in the branches in Brussels and Berlin. In addition, Lempertz has long acted as an intermediary between private collectors and museums and has been able to convey important cultural assets to public institutions. Lempertz is a member of the "International Auctioneer" (IA AG) group, which was founded in 1993 and brings together eight leading independent auction houses from eight countries around the world. The turnover in 2012 was 51 million euros.

Criticism

Nazi-looted art

Lempertz was listed in the 1946 OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit's Red Flag List of Names for involvement in the Nazi-looted art trade. At present, the German Lost Art Foundation registers more than 680 artworks that mention Lempertz. In 1977, and again in 1996, Lempertz sold art that it had previously sold in 1937, without mentioning that, under the Nazis, it had been subject to a forced sale from the collection of Max Stern. In May 1981 Lempertz auctioned between 20 and 30 artworks, for one million DM, from

Albert Speer Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production, Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of W ...

's possession, using the anonymous provenance indication “From private property”. In 2008, the heirs of

, who was murdered in Auschwitz, sued Germany for the restitution of an art collection that including paintings by El Greco and Peter Paul Rubens, which had been seized by the Nazis and auctioned at Lempertz in 1939. According to NBC News the "Lempertz auction house in Cologne, Germany, claimed the property was destroyed during bombing in WWII, but the lawsuit includes a copy of the December 1939 sale catalog and price list." In 2007, "Portrait of a Musician Playing a Bagpipe" by an unknown Dutch artist, originally from the Max Stern collection, was sold at Lempertz, which had conducted the forced sale in 1937 to a London dealer, Philip Mould Ltd., who then sold it to Lawrence Steigrad in NY where it was spotted by the Holocaust Claims Processing Office. It was restituted to the heirs of Max Stern in 2009. In 2009 New York art dealer Richard Feigen restituted, to the heirs of Max Stern, an Italian baroque painting of St. Jerome in the Wilderness, attributed to Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619), that he had acquired at Lempertz. “I was surprised that Lempertz had been the auctioneer in the forced sale in 1937 and then resold it to me in 2000,” he said. In 2011, Lempertz dismissed a claim from heirs of Sophie Lissitzky-Kueppers, a Jewish art collector plundered by the Nazis, and decided to continue an auction of 1923 a Kandinsky painting “Zwei Schwarze Flecken” (“Two Black Marks”) despite the family's assertion that it had been stolen by the Nazis.

Forgeries

In October 2010 Lempertz auctioned forged paintings by

Wolfgang Beltracchi Wolfgang Beltracchi (born Wolfgang Fischer on 4 February 1951) is a German former Art forgery, art forger and visual artist who has admitted to forging hundreds of paintings in an international art scam netting millions of euros. Beltracchi, tog ...

, including forgeries attributed to

Heinrich Campendonk Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk (3 November 1889 – 9 May 1957) was a painter and graphic designer born in Germany who became a naturalized Dutch citizen. Life Campendonk was born in Krefeld, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire. He was the son ...

and

Max Pechstein Hermann Max Pechstein (31 December 1881 – 29 June 1955) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and a member of the Die Brücke group. He fought on the Western Front during World War I and his art was classified as Degenerate A ...

from a nonexistent "Jäger" collection, including the forgery of Campendonk's “Rotes Picture with horses ”at a record price of 2.4 million euros. On September 1, 2012, the Cologne Regional Court sentenced the Lempertz Kunsthaus to pay more than two million euros in damages (after Lempertz had previously repaid the plaintiff €800,000).

Important auctions and brokerage

* 1837 Gemäldesammlung von Jacob Lyversberg * 1845 Bibliothek von

August Wilhelm Schlegel August Wilhelm von Schlegel (Schlegel until 1812; ; ; 8 September 176712 May 1845) was a German Indologist, poet, translator and critic. With his brother Friedrich Schlegel, he was a leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His translations o ...

* 1860 Bibliothek von

Ernst Moritz Arndt Ernst Moritz Arndt (26 December 1769 – 29 January 1860) was a German nationalist historian, writer and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany. Arndt had to flee to Swed ...

* 1877 Bibliothek von

Karl Simrock Karl Joseph Simrock (28 August 1802 – 18 July 1876) was a German poet and writer. He is primarily known for his translation of ''Das Nibelungenlied'' into modern German. Life He was born in Bonn, where his father was a music publisher. He s ...

* 1893 Fränkische und römische Antiquitäten aus den Ausgrabungen des Nieder-Breisiger Totenfeldes * 1898 Nachlass von Wilhelm von Woyna * 1901 Sammlung von Bildern aus dem Hause

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonie ...

* 1903 Sammlung des ehem. Kölner Beigeordneten Karl Ferdinand Thewalt (1.150.000 Goldmark) * 1908 Erste Auktion Ostasiatischer Kunst * Auktion 124, 1911: Nachlass von Johannes Niessen * 1920 Gemälde älterer Meister aus den Beständen des Landesmuseums Darmstadt * 1923 Bibliothek Drachenburg bei

Königswinter Königswinter (; ; Low Franconian: ) is a town and summer resort in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Königswinter is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, opposite Bad Godesberg, at the foot of the ...

* 1929 Bibliothek von Viktoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe aus dem

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* 1937 (Auktion 392) Bestände der Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf, mit Werken von

Lodovico Carracci Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci ( , , ; 21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker from Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering lig ...

Friedrich August von Kaulbach Friedrich August von Kaulbach (2 June 1850 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria – 26 July 1920 in Ohlstadt, Germany) was a German portraitist and historical painter. Along with Franz von Lenbach and Franz von Stuck, he was known as one of the "Mal ...

Wilhelm von Schadow Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow (7 September 1789 – 19 March 1862) was a German Romantic painter. Biography He was born in Berlin, the second son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, who gave him his first lessons in drawing. He then turn ...

Franz Xaver Winterhalter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithography, lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashio ...

u. a. * 1939 (Auktion 404) Sammlung

(Zwangsversteigerung), mit Werken von

Peter Paul Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish painting, Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque painting, Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged comp ...

, Antonio Molinari,

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Anselm Feuerbach Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 – 4 January 1880) was a German Painting, painter. He was the leading neoclassicism, neoclassical painter of the German 19th-century school. Biography Early life Feuerbach was born at Speyer, the son of ...

Arnold Böcklin Arnold Böcklin (16 October 182716 January 1901) was a Swiss Symbolism (arts), Symbolist Painting, painter. His five versions of the ''Isle of the Dead (painting), Isle of the Dead'' inspired works by several late-Romantic composers. Biography ...

Franz von Lenbach Franz Seraph Lenbach, after 1882, Ritter von Lenbach (13 December 1836 – 6 May 1904), was a German painter known primarily for his portraits of prominent personalities from the nobility, the arts, and industry. Because of his standing in society ...

, Charles Hoguet,

Carl Spitzweg Carl Spitzweg (February 5, 1808 – September 23, 1885) was a German romantic painter, especially of genre subjects. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era. Life and career Spitzweg was born in Mun ...

Hans von Marées Hans von Marées (24 December 1837 – 5 June 1887) was a German painter. Initially specialising in portraiture he later turned to mythological subjects. He spent the last years of his life in Italy. Life Marées was born into a banking family ...

Hans Thoma Hans Thoma (2 October 1839 – 7 November 1924) was a German painter. Biography Hans Thoma was born on 2 October 1839 in Bernau, Grand Duchy of Baden, in the Black Forest, Germany. He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of p ...

Camille Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( ; ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). ...

u. a. * 1969 Nachlass von Marga Böhmer, Lebensgefährtin von

Ernst Barlach Ernst Heinrich Barlach (2 January 1870 – 24 October 1938) was a German Expressionism, expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in th ...

* 1971 (Auktion 516) Sammlung Jacob Lyversberg * 1979 ff Sammlung

mit Werken von

Jakob Philipp Hackert Jacob Philipp Hackert (15 September 1737 – 28 April 1807) was a landscape painter from Brandenburg, who did most of his work in Italy. Biography Hackert was born in 1737 in Prenzlau in the Margraviate of Brandenburg (now in Germany). He t ...

Karl Friedrich Schinkel Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, urban planning, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed b ...

u. a. (ca. 1.000.000 DM) * 1995 Aquarell

August Macke August Robert Ludwig Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly activ ...

''Unter den Lauben in Thun'' (854.000 DM) * 1997 Sammlung Otto Riese

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ischer Holzschnitte * 1999 Ölgemälde Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere: ''Tanz um den Maibaum.'' (2.745.000 DM) * 2004 Relief

Kurt Schwitters Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but lived in exile from 1937. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, Constructivism (a ...

: ''Relief mit gelbem Viereck'' (€1.460.000 ) * 2005 Ölgemälde

Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger (; July 17, 1871January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City. In 1887 h ...

: ''Gelmeroda XI'' (€1.700.000 ),

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

: ''Carte a jouer et verre'' (€550.000 ) * 2006 Ölgemälde

Emil Nolde Emil Nolde (born Hans Emil Hansen; 7 August 1867 – 13 April 1956) was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early ...

: ''Marschhof 1947'' (€1.400.000 ),

Max Liebermann Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important ...

: ''Papageienmann'' (€903.000 ), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: ''Stilleben mit 2 Holzfiguren und Blumen'' (€732.000 ),

Salomon van Ruysdael Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602, Naarden – buried 3 November 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.

: ''Flusslandschaft mit Fähre und einem mit Vieh beladenen Boot'' (€770.000 ) * 2007 Modelle

Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti (, , ; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, Drafter, draftsman and Printmaking, printmaker, who was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced ...

: ''2 Original-Skulpturen'' (€1.590.000 ), Gouache und Aquarell

Fernand Léger Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and film director, filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually ...

: ''Contraste de Formes'' (€1.280.000 ) * 2008 Gemälde Hans Hoffmann: ''Hase'' (€718.000 ) * 2011 Meißner Porzellanfigur Johann Gottlieb Kirchner: ''Sitzende Löwin'' (€1.100 000 ), Gouache

Max Beckmann Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, drawing, draftsman, printmaker, sculpture, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the m ...

: ''Löwenbändiger'' (€864.000 ) * 2012 Gemälde

Gerrit Dou Gerrit Dou (; 7 April 1613 – 9 February 1675), also known as Gerard Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for h ...

: ''Alter Maler in seinem Atelier'' (€3.785.000 ), Gemälde Johann König: ''Auferstehung Christi'' (€878.000 ) * 2014 2 Heiligentafeln von Matteo Giovannetti von ca. 1345 aus dem Nachlass

s: (€2.656.000 ), Weltraumkapsel TKS-Raumschiff: (€1.000.000 ), Relief ''Trauergruppe aus einem Kalvarienberg'', Sachsen 1500/1510, ehem. Sammlung

Hermann Göring Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German Nazism, Nazi politician, aviator, military leader, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which gov ...

(€244.000 ) * 2015 Gemälde

Alexej von Jawlensky Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (; 13 March 1864 – 15 March 1941), surname also spelt as Yavlensky, was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany. He was a key member of the New Munich Artist's Association ( Neue Künstlervereinigung ...

: Garten am Bauernhaus (€544.000 ), Gemälde

Andrea di Bonaiuto Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze or Andrea da Firenze was an Italian painter active in Florence. He was probably born in Florence where he was active from 1343.

: Madonna mit Kind von Engeln und Heiligen umgeben, (€483.600 ), Gemälde

Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced Abstract art, abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and Glass art, glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important con ...

: GRÜN-BLAU-ROT (€421.600 ) * 2016 Gemälde

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German Expressionism, expressionist Painting, painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expr ...

: Mädchen in Südwester (€1.576.000 ), Kreidezeichnung

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks ...

, Femme semant (1.036.000), Gemälde Pieter Brueghel d. J., Das Hochzeitsmahl im Freien, (€1.096.000 ), Gemälde

Josef Albers Josef Albers ( , , ; March 19, 1888March 25, 1976) was a German-born American artist and Visual arts education, educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States. Born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westp ...

: Homage to the Square (€676.000 ), Gemälde Friedrich Nerly: Piazzetta di San Marco bei Mondschein (€496.000 ), Gemälde

Ernst Wilhelm Nay Ernst Wilhelm Nay (June 11, 1902 – April 8, 1968) was a German painter and graphic designer of classical modernism. He is considered one of the most important painters of German post-war art. Biography Nay came from a Berlin civil servant' ...

: Vega (€372.000 )

Literature

* Claudia Herstatt: ''Schädliche Herkunft, Der Streit um ein wertvolles Gemälde, das einmal Albert Speer gehört haben soll''. In: ''

Die Zeit (, ) is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles. History The first edition of was ...

'', Nr. 19/2006 *

Werner Höfer Werner Höfer (21 March 1913, in Kaisersesch, Rhine Province – 26 November 1997, in Cologne) was a German journalist. He started his career as a Nazi propagandist, working for the newspaper '' Das Reich''. From 1933 to 1945 he was a member ...

: ''Lempertz in New York, Brückenkopf des deutschen Kunsthandels''. In ''

'', Nr. 46/1964 * Swantje Karich: ''Rote Pferde, gelbe Häuser und ein Schrank''. In: '' FAZ'', 31. Dezember 2006 * Stefan Koldehoff: ''Kein Bekenntnis zur Vergangenheit. Der deutsche Kunsthandel in der Nazizeit – eine Ausstellung''. In: ''

Süddeutsche Zeitung The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest and most influential daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of ''SZ'' is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and ...

'', 27. Februar 2007 * Catherine MacKenzie: ''Auktion 392, Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf''. FoFa Gallery,

Concordia University Concordia University () is a Public university, public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College (Montreal), Loyola College and Sir George Williams Universit ...

, Montreal 2006, ISBN 0-9781694-0-9 * Josef Niesen: ''Bonner Personenlexikon.'' 2., verbesserte und erweiterte Auflage. Bouvier, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-416-03180-6. * Werner Schäfke: ''Kunsthaus Lempertz – Eine Kulturgeschichte'', DuMont Buchverlag, Köln 2015, ISBN 978-3-8321-9487-1. * Nina Senger; Katja Terlau: ''Methodik der Provenienzrecherche am Beispiel der Sammlung des Kunsthändlers

Jacques Goudstikker Jacques Goudstikker (30 August 1897 – 16 May 1940) was a Jewish Dutch art dealer who fled the Netherlands when it was invaded by Nazi Germany during World War II, leaving three furnished properties and an extensive and significant art collectio ...

, Amsterdam''. In
''AKMB-news'' 2/05, Jg. 11, Heidelberg 2005
* Steil nach oben. In: Der Spiegel. Nr. 50, 1968, S. 211 (online).

References

External links

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Gemeinsamer Webauftritt und Onlineshop von ''Edition Lempertz'' und ''Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus''
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