Nazi-looted cultural property

Museum Angewandte Kunst opens exhibition The Collection of Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild

The Mu­se­um Ange­wandte Kun­st in Frank­furt am Main opens its ex­hi­bi­tion The Col­lec­tion of Max­i­m­il­ian von Gold­schmidt-Roth­schild on 27 Jan­uary 2023. It is the first time the Frank­furt mu­se­um has ded­i­cat­ed an ex­hi­bi­tion to this pri­vate col­lec­tor and pa­tron and his once fa­mous art col­lec­tion. The his­to­ry of the col­lec­tion re­flects the life of the col­lec­tor, who was per­se­cut­ed as a Jew un­der Na­tion­al So­cial­ism.

For this rea­son, the ex­hi­bi­tion fo­cus­es on the sale of the col­lec­tion to the city of Frank­furt am Main in 1938 un­der the pres­sure of per­se­cu­tion, the sub­se­quent trans­fer of its hand­i­craft items to the Mu­se­um für Kun­sthandw­erk (now the Mu­se­um Ange­wandte Kun­st) and the re­turn of a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of the col­lec­tion to the right­ful heirs af­ter the Sec­ond World War.

The ex­hi­bi­tion presents the col­lec­tion and its bi­og­ra­phy against the back­ground of the mu­se­um’s own his­to­ry. In do­ing so, it draws on the most re­cent re­sults of prove­nance re­search con­duct­ed at the mu­se­um in con­nec­tion with a project fund­ed by the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion, al­so in­volv­ing a crit­i­cal look at the in­sti­tu­tion’s his­to­ry. The ex­hi­bi­tion presents and crit­i­cal­ly ques­tions items from the col­lec­tion that have re­mained in the mu­se­um’s own hold­ings to this day. It al­so fea­tures a num­ber of in­ter­na­tion­al loans.

The ex­hi­bi­tion is on from 28 Jan­uary to 4 June 2023.
See www.mu­se­u­mange­wandtekun­st.de for de­tails.
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