Gerhard von Pölnitz, also known as the Baron von Poelnitz, was a Nazi officer stationed in occupied Paris, who was involved in looting French Jews.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
"Wealthy Luftwaffe officer stationed in Paris during the occupation. Intimate friend of Haberstock, and his Paris representative. Helped Haberstock aryanise the Wildenstein firm; he provided lorries to move the paintings to Paris before the ERR could seize them. His mistress, Mme Jane Weyll, also was active in Haberstock’s behalf. Contact of Dequoy, Gurlitt and Lohse. Under arrest at Bamberg, autumn 1945." - Art Looting Investigation Unit 1946[9]
Hitler's art dealer Hidlebrand Gurlitt fled to Pölnitz's chateau when the Allies defeated Nazi Germany.[8]
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Stern Heirs’ Claim Against National Gallery of Art
27 nov. 2000 — The National Gallery of Art said last week that it would return a 17th-century Flemish painting to the heirs of Marguerite Stern, ...
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- ^ Shoumatoff, Alex. "The DEVIL and the ART DEALER | Vanity Fair | April 2004". Vanity Fair | The Complete Archive. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ^ "Museum to Return Plundered Painting - The Washington Post". web.archive.org. 2017-04-25. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ^ "Hildebrand Gurlitt and His Dubious Dealings with Nazi Looted Art". Der Spiegel. 2013-12-23. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ^ "National Gallery of Art to Return Painting to Heirs as a Result of Gallery Research and Web Posting". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
Archival records discovered by Nancy Yeide, head of curatorial records at the National Gallery of Art, document that a still-life painting by Snyders was confiscated from the Stern collection in Paris, taken by Hermann Goering and traded by him to Haberstock (one of the Nazis' principal dealers, although he had many other clients) in 1941. By 1945 Haberstock is known to have given the painting to Baron von Poellnitz. Still Life with Fruit and Game was purchased from von Poellnitz around 1968 by Herman Schickman. The Gallery acquired the painting in 1990 as a gift of Herman and Lila Schickman in honor of the Gallery's fiftieth anniversary, which took place in 1991
- ^ "International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR)-Case Summary-Stern Heirs' Claim Against National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)". www.ifar.org. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ^ Nicholas, Lynn H. (2013-11-06). "Looted Treasures in Pandora's Box". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ^ "U.S. National Gallery to return art stolen by Nazis". www.arnnet.com.au. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ^ a b "Nazi Loot Heirs Look to Reclusive Hoarder to Recover Art". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
After Hildebrand's Dresden home was destroyed by the February 1945 Allied firebombing that leveled much of the city, he and his family -- including the then-12-year-old Cornelius -- fled for the village of Aschbach in Bavaria. It was there that U.S. forces found him, sheltering in the castle of a Baron Poellnitz with crates of art including works by Picasso, Edgar Degas and Dix. Hildebrand Gurlitt died in 1956 in a car crash.
- ^ "Art Looting Intelligence Unit (ALIU) Reports 1945-1946 and ALIU Red Flag Names List and Index". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 2022-09-10.