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Vugesta), which auctions the looted objects in the Dorotheum auction house or sells them by exhibiting them in Vienna. The Kraus collection makes a profit of 68,000 Reichsmark , making it one of the Vugesta's biggest wins of all time. In comparison, the Kraus country estate in Grinzing is valued at 46,670 Reichsmark. The money flows into Hitler's coffers. While Gottlieb, Mathilde and their younger daughter Mitzi board an ocean liner in London that will bring them to Canada, their new, imposed homeland, their art collection is receiving the greatest attention. Hans Posse, Special Representative of the planned 'FĂĽhrermuseum' in Linz reserves four paintings from the collection. Next in line are Bruno Grimschitz, director of the Austrian National Gallery, and representatives of Austria's Joanneum museum.
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Landsmannschaft Kärnten in Wien und war als Offizier an der italienischen und russischen Front des Ersten Weltkriegs eingesetzt. 1918 promovierte er mit der Dissertation Die künstlerische Entwicklung Johann Lucas von Hildebrandts und begann im Folgejahr seine berufliche Tätigkeit an der Österreichischen Galerie (ÖG) in Wien als wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft bzw. Assistent; es folgte 1928 seine Beförderung zum Kustos II. Klasse, sechs Jahre später zum Kustos I. Klasse. Ab 1932 lehrte Grimschitz als Privatdozent für Neuere Kunstgeschichte und Museumskunde an der Technischen Hochschule Wien. 1937 erteilte ihm die Universität Wien die Lehrbefugnis im Fach Kunstgeschichte und berief ihn 1941 zum außerplanmäßigen Professor.
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Was the painting's title really changed to "The Woman in Gold"? Not exactly. Bruno
Grimschitz, the Nazi curator at the Austrian Gallery, first changed the name of the painting to "Golden Portrait" and later to "The Lady in Gold." As emphasized in the movie, this was done to hide the fact that the
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Previously undisclosed correspondence, buried for nearly three-quarters of a century in
Viennese archives, show Kallir in the middle of an art deal that included some of the most baneful characters of the era, including Hitler, Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, and Bruno Grimschitz, a Nazi
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When the
National Socialist regime deprives all Jews living abroad of their German citizenship, the property of the Kraus family is classified as 'property of the enemy'. As a result, it is administered by the 'Verwertungsstelle fĂĽr jĂĽdisches Umzugsgut der Gestapo' (Gestapo Agency for Jewish
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Nach dem Besuch des k. k. Staatsobergymnasiums in
Klagenfurt studierte Bruno Grimschitz ab 1910 Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Wien bei Max Dvořák und absolvierte die Ausbildung am Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. Deutschnational eingestellt wurde er 1912 Mitglied der
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1947, as a "minor burden". He received his teaching licence back in 1956 and held it until 1963. He published numerous works, especially on the
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curator at the Austrian Gallery. Hitler wanted Portrait of a Young Lady by Ferdinand Georg WaldmĂĽller, one of his favorite painters. And Kallir, willing or not, was the dealer who got it for him.
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