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Alessandro Contini Bonacossi

Italian art collector, dealer and politician (1878-1955)

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Instance of: human
Born: 18 March 1878
Died: 22 October 1955
Part of: Enemy and Collaborationist Personnel Involved in Art Looting Recommended for Exclusion from the United States
Place of birth: Ancona
Place of death: Florence
Sex or gender: male
Given name: Alessandro
Family name: Bonacossi, Contini
Spouse: Vittoria Contini Bonacossi
Occupation: politician, art dealer, collector, art collector
Position held: member of the Senate of the Italian Republic, senator of the Kingdom of Italy
Citizenship: Italy, Kingdom of Italy
Native language: Italian
archives at: Berenson Library
depicted by: Ante Topic Mimara, "The Master Swindler of Yugoslavia", ALIU Consolidated Interrogation Report (CIR) No. 4 Linz: Hitler's Museum and Library, December 1945
described by source: Beteiligte Privatpersonen und Körperschaften am NS-Kulturgutraub
investigated by: Art Looting Investigation Unit
languages spoken, written or signed: Italian
member of: Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
owner of: Maestà (Madonna and Child with Four Angels)
significant person: Ettore Sestieri, Hermann Göring, Benito Mussolini, Walter Andreas Hofer