Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Culture and History
Angaben zur Quelle:
24,3 (2023) 363-375
Keywords:
Ganz, Felix, Art collections
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Jewish businesspeople
;
Art Collectors and collecting
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Islamic art Private collections
;
Jewish property
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Aryanization
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Confiscations and contributions
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Art Provenance
;
Research
Abstract:
Felix Ganz was a businessman from Mainz, Germany, and the owner of a substantial collection of art objects from the Middle East and East Asia. In 1934, his company was ‘aryanized’, in 1941 his home was seized, he and his wife were deported to Theresienstadt a year later and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. The project presented here is to reconstruct the scope and character of Felix Ganz’s art collection and to research the mechanisms of its dispersion between 1933 and 1945 as well as the location of the objects today. The project combines family history and provenance research.
DOI:
10.1080/1462169X.2023.2236446
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