Der Sammler Curt Glaser: Vom Verfechter der Moderne zum Verfolgten

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Der Sammler Curt Glaser

Vom Verfechter der Moderne zum Verfolgten

Edited by: Anita Haldemann and Judith Rauser

Overview

About this book

The important, nearly forgotten German-Jewish museum expert and art collector Curt Glaser (1879–1943) was forced to emigrate by the National Socialists and sold the majority of his art holdings in Berlin in 1933. Through the whereabouts of works once owned by him, the Kunstmuseum Basel reached an agreement with Glaser’s heirs that is recognized internationally as “best practice,” and in connection with this is honoring Glaser’s work in an exhibition. The catalogue provides richly illustrated insights into Glaser’s fascinating collection, with works by Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, and Henri Matisse. Essays link new research on this advocate of modernism and his collecting of modern art and embed his fate in current questions connected with formerly Jewish art holdings in public museums.

Contribution to current debates surrounding art collections during the National Socialist period and their whereabouts today
The newest research on the fate of the nearly forgotten German-Jewish art collector

Author / Editor information

Anita Haldemann, Judith Rauser, Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum, Basel

Reviews

„Der Katalog ist ein gelungener Beitrag zur Geschichte des Sammelns, zur Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte und zu den Auswirkungen der NS-Verfolgung auf das Fach und die musealen Institutionen bis heute, in dem der Kunst ein ebenso großer Stellenwert zugestanden wird wie den Zeitumständen und den Menschen, die sich mit ihr befassen.“ (Dr. Susanne Meyer-Abich in: Kunstchronik, 2023/7)

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„The catalogue not only reproduces the best works of Elsa and Curt Glaser's former collection, it also offers numerous new insights into the Glaser and Milch families, who had been forgotten since the Holocaust.“ (Andreas Strobl in: Print Quarterly, 2024/1)

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: German
Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV)
Pages
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 360
Keywords: Berlin; Edvard Munch; emigration; heritage; Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; emigration art; Henri Matisse; persecution of Jews; Jewish; Classical Modernism; art ownership; Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; art historian; Kunstmuseum Basel; art collection; Max Beckmann; New York; NS era; provenance research; looted art; restitution; Switzerland

Paperback

Published: November 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783422988767