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Curt Glaser
German Jewish art historian and art collector persecuted by Nazis, refugee (1879-1943)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 May 1879
- Died
- 23 November 1943
- Place of birth
- Leipzig
- Place of death
- Lake Placid
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Curt
- Family name
- Glaser
- Spouse
- Elsa Kolker
- Sibling
- Paul Glaser
- Occupation
- art historian, art collector
- Position held
- director
- Citizenship
- German Reich
- collection items at
- Kunsthaus Zürich, Kunstmuseum Basel, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- depicted by
- Restitution of Four Graphic Works to the Heirs of Curt Glaser by the Prussion Cultural Heritage Foundation, list of claims for restitution for Nazi-looted art, Basel Rejects Bid for Munch, Chagall Art by Nazi Victim's Heirs, In a Dramatic About-Face, the Kunstmuseum Basel Will Compensate the Heirs of a Jewish Collector for Disputed Works in Its Collection, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen restitute two watercolors by Max Pechstein from the Curt Glaser Collection and a painting by N.V. Díaz de la Peña from the George Behrens Collection
- described by source
- Svensk uppslagsbok, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen restitute two watercolors by Max Pechstein from the Curt Glaser Collection and a painting by N.V. Díaz de la Peña from the George Behrens Collection, Christie’s to auction long-lost painting by Mannerist artist Spranger, Jewish Collectors and Art Dealers (Victims of Nazi persecution and expropriation), Georg Kreis verschwieg Basler Raubkunst-Akte - Georg Kreis concealed Basel art seizure file
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- owner of
- Moses Striking the Rock, Actaeon Watching Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing, Albert Kollmann, Dance on the Beach (The Reinhardt Frieze), Lübeck with the Holstentor
- significant event
- Restitution of Four Graphic Works to the Heirs of Curt Glaser by the Prussion Cultural Heritage Foundation, persecution of Jews in the Nazi era, claim for restitution of an artwork, legal settlement, restitution of Nazi-looted art
- significant person
- Georg Kreis
- student of
- Karl Scheffler
- subject has role
- refugee
- work location
- Berlin, Switzerland, United States, Kunstbibliothek Berlin
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
Subject of
- Elsa and Curt Glaser
- Restitution of Four Graphic Works to the Heirs of Curt Glaser by the Prussion Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Basel faces pressure to return art once owned by Jewish historian
- Der Fall Glaser wird neu aufgerollt
- In a Dramatic About-Face, the Kunstmuseum Basel Will Compensate the Heirs of a Jewish Collector for Disputed Works in Its Collection
- Basel Rejects Bid for Munch, Chagall Art by Nazi Victim's Heirs
- Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen restitute two watercolors by Max Pechstein from the Curt Glaser Collection and a painting by N.V. Díaz de la Peña from the George Behrens Collection
- Christie’s to auction long-lost painting by Mannerist artist Spranger
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