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The
Strasbourg Canaletto appears in the catalogue of the Nazi sale of Altmann's entire estate by Dorotheum, the Viennese auction house, on 17-22 June and 19-21 July, 1938. The statement in the catalogue, that the June sale was to take place at Altmann's residence at "Kopfgasse 1", Vienna, confirmed
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Petitioner lost his textile plant and the realty in Vienna in 1938 when it was confiscated under Nazi decree during the
Anschluss. In 1945, the plant was looted at various times and machinery and merchandise was taken. In 1947, petitioner instituted legal proceedings before the Austrian Restitution
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Viennese textile business in 1915. In 1919 he established his first company, which expanded in Vienna itself as well as in other locations, among them Moscow, Paris and Liverpool. The company had grown to more than 1000 employees by the time it was "Aryanized" in 1938. Bernhard
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Liverpool via Paris in 1938, supported several family members in escaping Vienna in 1938, among them his wife Nelly as well as his brothers Max with his wife and child, his brother Julius and his brother Fritz with his wife Maria.
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the painting's provenance to the museum. Three other
Canaletto paintings taken from Bernhard Altmann, which were included in the sale, are still missing. The Strasbourg Canaletto is one of only nine works painted by the artist on copper.
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Act of 1939, in which all nationals of enemy countries had to withdraw from coastline cities in three days after the declaration of war. After
Liverpool he immigrated to the United States, where he started a company in
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Sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, 17th June 1938, lot 379 Gustav Ucicky, Vienna (the artist's son; purchased at the above sale) Ă–sterreichische
Galerie Belvedere, Vienna (bequest from the above in 1961)
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With Maria and Fritz as the primary "boots on the ground" in
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and a lambswool/fur fibre blend called "Bernamere". A 1960s advertising tagline for the company ran: "The Legend of a Great
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The lady in gold: the extraordinary tale of Gustav Klimt's masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
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had seen on a mass scale. He put the two materials in a package and mailed it to his sister-in-law
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The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann
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