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Dresden Gemäldegalerie and, from 1939 until his death in 1942, in charge of purchases for Hitler's planned art museum in Linz, Austria, the Sonderauftrag Linz.7 Cramer's wartime correspondence and financial files detail several transactions in which he acted as an agent between private sellers and Posse and Göpel as well as Walter Andreas Hofer, who was Göring's chief confidential operator and curator at Göring's private art collection, Carinhall.8
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which included forty-six drawings and fifty-two graphics by
Beckmann, plus a landscape by Hans Purrmann. The donation was controversial because of Goepel's role in channeling Nazi looted art to Hitler's Führermuseum during the Third Reich. The Berlin State museums issued a statement saying there was
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Erhard Göpel was a key member of the Linz
Special Commission, the team of dealers who purchased—and looted—art across Europe for Hitler's unrealised Führermuseum, planned for his home town of Linz. Göpel was instrumental in acquiring the Schloss family collection in Paris after it had been looted by
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acquired 49 of the 330 paintings. From the remaining stock, Göpel and Bruno Lohse selected 262 pictures for the special order Linz. Göpel and Lohse received these pictures from the French on
November 3, 1943 in the Jeu de Paume Museum, the ERR depot, from where they were then transported to Germany.
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and living in exile in
Amsterdam. But what the personal relationship between the painter and Göpel was like is still unclear today. It is noticeable that Göpel's post-war journalistic activities only started after the painter's death in 1950. Beckmann completed a portrait of Göpel in 1944. In an
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One of the high-level Nazi agents was the German art historian Erhard Göpel, who acted on behalf of the Reich
Commissioner for the Occupied Dutch Territories in The Hague, where he was in charge of the Special Board for Exchange of Cultural Objects. Göpel was commissioned to explore the Dutch art
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Goepel, Dr Erhard. Leipzig, Stieghtstrasse 76. Official Linz agent and buyer in
Holland under Posse and Voss. Bought extensively in Holland and also travelled frequently in Belgium and France. Negotiated the forced sale of the Schloss Collection in Paris. Chief contacts: Vitale Bloch (Holland),
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Sonderauftrag Linz in May 1943. Together with Bruno Lohse, Göring's agent at the Jeu de Paume in Paris serving as deputy director of the ERR in France, Göpel played a leading role in the acquisition of the Schloss
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The dealer visited Beckmann in the autumn of 1944, as Allied troops gathered on the Dutch border, in the company of another dealer, Erhard Goepel. Both Gurlitt and Goepel were in the Netherlands buying paintings for the planned Fuehrer Museum in Linz, Hitler's
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by The Master of the Antwerp Adoration (active Antwerp c. 1505-1530) was restituted to the heirs of Hands Ludwig Larsen from whom it had been seized during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Göpel had acquired it for Hitler's
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the Gestapo. The collection, assembled by an Austrian-born French Jew, included works by Rembrandt and Frans Hals. After the war, Göpel evaded sentencing and spent the rest of his career organising exhibitions in Munich.
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