Hans W. (Wolfgang) Lange (1904–1945) [FIG. 1] had been employed by the Jewish auctioneer Paul Graupe (1891–1953). [FIG. 2] Like his predecessor Graupe, Lange offered many Jewish collections sold under duress during his tenure. Working and profiting from a close relationship with the Berlin tax authorities, Lange occupied a key position of the art market during the Nazi era.
He auctioned many significant Jewish art collections, including that of the Hamburg-based collector Emma Budge, whose posthumous sale had been initiated under Graupe’s aegis and was slated for 27–29 September 1937 but was postponed to 4 October 1937 due to Benito Mussolini’s state visit; [FIGS. 3–6] the Meissen porcelain enthusiast Hermine Feist on 22–23 June 1939; and banker Jakob Goldschmidt (J. G.) on 25 September 1941. [FIG. 7, 8] Due to the threat of air raids in the following years, Lange moved his operations to Vienna for his final auctions in October 1943.
Among Lange’s buyers were German museums, established and new dealers and collectors, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring and Hitler’s unrealised ‘Führermuseum’ or ‘Sonderauftrag’ Linz.
By the end of 1943, Lange had held 35 auctions and offered around 15,000 artworks and objects. [FIG. 9] In 1940 alone, Lange’s turnover was over 2 million Reichsmark, according to a subdivision of the Reichskammer der Bildenden Künste, a quarter of which was a result of the forced sale of Jewish property.
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After his drafting into the Wehrmacht (Nazi armed forces) in May 1943, Lange’s Berlin premises burned down in November that year. Injured in a bombing raid, he died in a Russian military hospital in Berlin on 17 May 1945.
Anthonie Palamedesz’s painting An elegant company making merry in an interior was looted by the Nazi authorities with the banker Alois Miedl who, acting on behalf of Göring took over (‘Aryanised’) the business of the leading Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker in Amsterdam in July 1940. The work was put on sale at Hans W. Lange on 12 March 1941 by Miedl [FIGS. 10–14] and reappeared on the art market several times in the 1990s before Goudstikker’s heirs identified and located it. The painting was restituted to Goudstikker’s heirs and was then sold at Christie’s in Amsterdam on 6 May 2008. [FIG. 15]
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After his drafting into the Wehrmacht (Nazi armed forces) in May 1943, Lange’s Berlin premises burned down in November that year. Injured in a bombing raid, he died in a Russian military hospital in Berlin on 17 May 1945.
Anthonie Palamedesz’s painting An elegant company making merry in an interior was looted by the Nazi authorities with the banker Alois Miedl who, acting on behalf of Göring took over (‘Aryanised’) the business of the leading Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker in Amsterdam in July 1940. The work was put on sale at Hans W. Lange on 12 March 1941 by Miedl [FIGS. 10–14] and reappeared on the art market several times in the 1990s before Goudstikker’s heirs identified and located it. The painting was restituted to Goudstikker’s heirs and was then sold at Christie’s in Amsterdam on 6 May 2008. [FIG. 15]
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Related addresses: Schöneberger Ufer 38 until May 1935 (Architect: Heinrich Schweitzer); Schöneberger Ufer 71
Budapester Strasse (1932) not identical with today’s Budapester Strasse; Lützowstrasse 32 I (October 1925–1930); Königin-Augusta-Strasse 22 (October 1930–1932) - in 1933 this street becomes Tirpitzufer 84 and in 1947 it was renamed to Reichpietschufer. Lützowufer 19a (November 1932–1937), since 1933: Galerie Nierendorf; Großadmiral-von-Koester-Ufer 65 (1935–1947), Schöneberger Ufer.
Potsdamer Strasse 134c (Mid-Oct 1918-Sept 1924); Schöneberger Ufer 38 (July 1927-1931); Großadmiral-von-Koester-Ufer 39 respectively (since 1936) Großadmiral-von-Koester-Ufer 73 (1935-1939);Kluckstrasse 12 (May 1939 –Dec 1949)
Employee and partner at the Galerie / Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer
Related addresses: Street partially still exists as Hitzigallee.
Related addresses: Koenigin-Augusta-Strasse 46, in 1933 becomes Tirpitzufer 84, in 1947 becomes Reichpietschufer. Her last address in Berlin before deportation to Theresienstadt Bleibtreustrasse 17.
ALL BUILDINGS ARE DESTROYED
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Henry van de Velde (1894-1943), designer of the interior of the reading room at the gallery Paul Cassirer, Victoria Strasse 35.
(Street and building are destroyed)
Related addresses: Reichskammer der Bildenden Künste, Government agency 1933-1945; Blumes Hof 4-6 (since June 1934; street and building are destroyed; today's postcode 10785), Derfflingerstrasse 7 (from October 1935 until March 1937), Ahornstrasse 2 (1938). Today's postcode 10785
