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on 27 July 1882 into a Jewish family, the daughter of
Sigmund Goldmann and Fanni Goldmann, Elsa married Hermann Gall (1871-1932). They owned an art dealership and publishing house, Halm & Goldmann. Elsa's husband Hermann died in 1932, after which she owned and operated the business from 1932 to
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Elsa Gall fled to France and from there to the United States in 1939. The Galls' belongings, which had been stored at a shipping company, were confiscated by the
Gestapo in November 1940 and sold by the Vugesta, a Nazi looting organization, in private sales or through the
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that had belonged to Gall. However, the
Commission made an error in identifying the owner, mistakenly returning the looted painting to the Popper family instead of the Gall family. The painting was auctioned at the
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All but two of the works seized by the Nazis stayed lost until Elsa Gall's death in 1963. The process of provenance research and restitution since has progressed slowly. A
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of 1938, Gall was persecuted under Nazi anti-Jewish laws. Her art dealership was
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auction house in 2007 and the proceeds were given to the heirs of Franz Popper.
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Jewish emigrants from
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288:"Wien Museum: Russ-Gemälde an falsche Erbengruppe restituiert"
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313:"Wien-Museum restituierte Gemälde den falschen Erben"
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