INDEX

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Adenauer, Konrad, 100

A La Vieille Russie, New York, 300

Alfieri, Dino, 130–31, 134, 143

Algardi, Alessandro, A Flagellator of Christ, 127, 190

Altaussee, Austria, salt mine, artworks stored in, 183, 212, 233, 237, 280

Amanullah, King of Afghanistan, 93

Antonio, Biagio d’, 126, 288

The Siege of Veii, 84

Ardelia Hall Collection, 293

Arnhold family, 29, 50, 138

art:

appraisals of, 218–19, 268–69, 270–71

attributions of, 202

creating awareness of Holocaust-looted art, 231–32

“degenerate,” 122, 123–24, 206–7

due diligence in search for, 211, 223, 289

government protocols and regulations regarding, 16, 102, 107, 119, 167, 233, 235, 238, 239–40, 249, 256, 290, 303–4

gray market for, 211

and immortality, 317

inventories of collections, 256

Iris-print method for copies, 271

Nazi forced sales/acquisitions of, 15, 116–19, 122–28, 148, 168–71, 173–74, 180–84, 186–92, 218–19, 256, 257, 275–77

provenance of, 301

recovery of, 16, 201–19, 249

single-owner sale, 249

and statute of limitations, 232, 266

survival of, 285–86

titles of, 202

triumph over nature, 297

unregulated market for, 229

and Washington Principles, 232–33, 249, 290

Art Institute of Chicago, 204–5, 210, 217, 218, 219, 253

Aschbach, Bavaria, 277–79

Aschwin, Prince, 96

Asquith, H. H., 47

Association of Art Museum Directors (US), 219, 232

Aubusson tapestries, 75, 126

Augsburg, Bavaria, 263, 279, 306–7

Fuggerei in, 307–8

Aurednícková, Anna, 142

Auschwitz-Birkenau, 6, 121, 140, 147, 164, 172, 283

Louise’s death in, 156, 157, 166, 229, 235, 268, 269

Austria, “restitution committee” in, 233

Bachstitz, Kurt, 83, 117, 300

Bachstitz Gallery, The Hague, 299–300

Baeck, Leo, 141

Baldung Grien, Hans, Portrait of a Young Man, 85, 125, 194, 257, 272, 273–77, 280, 282–87, 289–91

Ballin, Albert, 29

Bamberg Museum, 278

Banca Commerciale Italiana, 128

Bankhaus Bernhard Gutmann, 20, 22, 23, 44

Bankhaus Jacob Landau, 48–49

Bankhaus Kaskel, 23

Banque J. Allard & Cie., 44, 46

Barbault, Jean, portrait by, 84, 187, 208

Bartolommeo, Fra, 87, 126, 192

Belgium, artworks looted in, 279

Benjamin, Walter, 50

Bentinck family, 79

Benz, Karl, 32

Berenson, Bernard, 185

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 164

Berl family, 240

Berlin:

after unification, 24

Gutmann family in, 55

Gutmann family tombs in, 72–73

New Synagogue in, 37

Berlin Wall, fall of, 197, 210

Bernhard, Prince (Netherlands), 82, 96, 105, 161

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, A Flagellator of Christ, 127, 190

Bernstein-Porges, Elsa, 139

Beuckelaer, Joachim, 240

Beyond the Fringe, 9–10

Bismarck, Otto von, 28, 49, 293, 303

Bismarck family, 24

Blans, Beatrice, 230

Bleichröder, Ellie von, 141

Bleichröder family, 23

Bloch, Egon, 174

Bloch, Ludwig, 174

B’nai B’rith, Klutznick National Jewish Museum, 232

Bode, Wilhelm von, 36

Böhler, Julius, 124

as adviser to Hitler and Göring, 122–23, 295

and author’s quest for family assets, 257, 293

and bogus transactions, 186, 209

and Bosbeek, 125–26, 168, 173, 235, 248, 296, 299, 307

and Fritz’s art acquisitions, 123

Lucerne gallery of, 301

Munich warehouse of, 148

and Orpheus Clock, 296, 299, 300, 301–2

and Reinhold Clock, 300, 302

and silver collection, 149, 183, 293, 294, 295–96, 298, 299, 302

Böhler family, 281, 301

Bordone, Paris, Venus and Amor, 123

Bormann, Martin, 5, 148, 260, 295

Bosbeek estate, 65

De Wit ceiling canvas in, 75, 168–70, 169, 243, 247

De Wit grisaille in, 74, 75, 169, 243

Eugen’s collection moved to, 73–75, 118

family refugees in, 107, 120

Fritz and Louise removed from, 132–34, 248

Fritz’s collection in, 85, 87, 88, 124–26, 173, 201

Gutmann family life in, 77–80, 78, 79

Gutmann family move to, 73–75, 118

Gutmann treasures removed from, 124–27, 168–71, 173, 191, 235, 248, 296, 299, 307

Nazi acquisition of title to, 127–28, 187–88, 189, 315

Nazi designs on art in, 117–18, 124–27, 131, 134, 136, 148, 183, 235, 275

and Nazi invasion/occupation, 113–14, 120–21, 131, 168–71, 173, 191

Nazi inventories of, 235, 248, 256, 296

postwar condition of, 168–74

postwar sale of, 189, 192

postwar visits to, 179, 242–43

socializing in, 79–84, 103, 246–47

Bosch, Hieronymus, 173, 305

Garden of Earthly Delights, 86

The Temptation of St. Anthony, 86–87

Bosi, Enrico, 308

Bosi, Franco, 105–6, 129, 145, 163

Bosi, Lorenzo, 242, 247

Boston Globe, 229–30

Botticelli, Sandro, Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap, 173, 194, 227–31, 236

Boucher, François, 87, 126

Pastoral Scene, 241–42

Brandt, Anni, 270

Brandt, Karl, 255, 259–62, 269

Braun, Eva, 259, 260

Breitenbach, Edgar, 302

British Expeditionary Force, 160

Brüning, Heinrich, 97

Buchenwald concentration camp, 164

Bugatti, Ettore, 77

Burgkmair, Hans, 125, 257

Camondo family, 46

Camp Ashcan, Luxembourg, 260

Campfens, Evelien, 238, 240

Carinhall, Göring’s estate at, 5, 85, 173, 206

Casa Pirota workshop, majolica bowl, 296

Cassirer, Paul, 222

Castel Durante, albarello jar, 289

Catharijneconvent Museum, Utrecht, 289

Catholic Congregation of the Sisters of Providence, 189

Cecilie, Crown Princess, 93

Cesare, Nicolò de, 144

Cézanne, Paul, 124, 212

Chamberlain, Neville, 107–8

Chinese porcelain, 126, 238, 243, 247, 268, 289, 290

Christie’s, 15, 226

art appraisals by, 218–19, 267, 268, 269, 312

auctions of Gutmann collection, 249, 250, 251–54, 271, 290, 291, 306

and Orpheus clocks, 299, 306, 312

restitution department in, 233

Ciano, Count Galeazzo, 129, 130, 144, 145

Cipriani, Harry, 4

Citroen, Ellen, 174

Commerzbank, 50, 304, 305, 309

Cosway, Richard, 34

Cramer, Gustav, 168

Cranach, Lucas the Elder, 85, 173, 180, 183

in Göring’s collection, 122

Melancholy, 84

Portrait of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony, 84–85

Samson and the Lion, 84, 125, 186, 192, 257

Venus, 83

Curie, Ève, 175

Cuyp, Aelbert, Chicken with Hens, 241, 247

Czernin, Count Manfred von, 162

Dalí, Salvador, Dream of Venus, 86–87

Degas, Edgar, 46, 124, 252

Femme se Chauffant or Woman Warming Herself, 88, 173, 194, 201, 208, 209, 274

Paysage or Landscape with Smokestacks, 88, 173, 194, 199, 201, 202–3, 204–6, 208–9, 212–13, 215–19, 219, 253, 274

De Gruyter’s Shipping Co., 188, 206

Delehanty, Suzanne, 274, 285–87, 289–91

Denver Art Museum, 231

Denzel, Georg, 302

Detroit Institute of Arts, 253

Deutsche Bank, 26, 51, 53

Deutsche-Orient Bank, 60, 93, 95

Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand AG, The Hague, 126

Deutsche Volkspartei, 28

Devéria, Henri-Victor, 247

Dienststelle Mühlmann (central art agency), 117, 123

Dietrich, Hermann, 97

Dietrich, Marlene, 71

Dietrich, Sepp, 101

Dinglinger, Johann, The Birthday of the Grand Mogul, 310

Disconto-Gesellschaft, 53

Doctors’ Trial, 261

Dosso Dossi, Giovanni, Small Portrait of a Young Man with a Red Jerkin, 85, 183, 194, 208

Drentwett, Abraham, globes by, 72

Dresden:

anti-Semitism in, 107

Bankhaus Bernhard Gutmann in, 20

Bernhard’s castle in, 21, 21, 37, 291, 309

“court Jews” in, 23

Grünes Gewölbe (Green Vault), 310

Gutmann family’s move to, 20

Jewish cemetery in, 73, 310

Jewish community in, 20–21, 22

Semper Opera House, 309

Dresdner Bank:

anniversary celebration of, 306, 308–10

Berlin headquarters of, 24–26, 25, 31

board of directors, 27, 44, 69, 98, 99

and Commerzbank, 304, 305, 309

The Dresdner Bank in the Third Reich, 309

Eugen as head of, 23–27, 65–66, 309

and Eugen-Gutmann-Gesellschaft, 304, 305, 306, 308–9

foreign interests of, 27, 47

Fritz as banker with, 44, 47, 52, 65, 66, 102–3

and Germany’s industrial power, 26, 29

Gutmann family associations with, 27, 44, 46, 65–66, 95, 103, 308–9

Gutmann family tree from, 304

and hyperinflation, 69

mergers and acquisitions of, 23, 24

Nazi takeover of, 98–99, 102–3, 126, 309, 310

opening of, 23

and Proehl & Gutmann, 67, 102–3

and World War I, 53, 62

Dreyfus affair, 88

Dubova, Joan, 153, 172

Dugot, Monica, 233

Dumont, François, 34

Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, 222

Dürer, Albrecht, 35, 273

Dutch (free) Red Cross, 162, 163, 165, 171

Dutch Art Property Collection (NK), 238

Dutch Committee for Jewish Interests, 107

Dutch Embassy, Buenos Aires, 241

Dutch Embassy, Moscow, 242

Dutch Embassy, Stockholm, 241

Dutch Golden Age, 85

Dutch National Collection, 236, 256

Eichmann, Adolf, 138, 144, 149

Einstein, Albert, 26

Ekkart, Rudi, 238, 240

Ekkart Committee, 238–40

Elsner, Jakob, Portrait of a Man, 125, 183, 237, 241, 251, 257

Engel, Herbert, 282

Engel, Hugo, 276, 277, 282

England, war declared on Germany, 108

Ephrussi family, 46

Eppstein, Hedwig, 152

Eppstein, Paul, 150, 152

ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg), 180, 187, 206–8, 223, 225, 256, 282

Essen, Hans Henrik von, 40, 62, 129

Essen, Toinon Gutmann von, 40, 41, 129, 175

European Commission on Looted Art, 217

Ewigleben, Cornelia, 304, 305, 306, 312

Eyck, Jan van, Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Ghent Altarpiece), 183

Fabergé eggs, 190

Fahy, Everett, 228

Faisal, King of Iraq, 93

Falke, Otto von, 36

Die Kunstammlung Eugen Gutmann, 294–95, 296, 297, 299, 313

Fankhauser, Hans, 209

Farber, Sheri, 249, 252, 306

Feigen, Richard, 218–19

Feliciano, Hector, 217

Ferencz, Benjamin, 280

Firma F. B. Gutmann, 103, 120–21, 188, 215, 248

Fischer, Theodor, 207, 212, 301

Fischer Gallery and Auction House, Lucerne, 207

Fogg Museum, Harvard University, 210, 211

Forbes-Robertson, Johnston, 47

Förster-Nietzsche, Elisabeth, 70, 71

Fortune Theater, London, 10

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 99

France:

artworks looted in, 124, 125, 181–82, 209, 279

collapse of, 125

Jewish refugees in, 108

Maginot Line of, 108, 274

“restitution” bureau of, 6, 180–81, 233, 249, 288, 315

war debt of, 280–81

war declared on Germany, 108

see also Paris

Frank, Anne, 107, 120, 239

Frank, Hans, 260

Frankenberg und Ludwigsdorf, Daisy von, 41–42, 52

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, 52

Franz von Stuck Museum, Munich, 262, 268–69, 271

Frederick Augustus I, 23

Fremersdorf, Joseph, 299–301, 311

French Foreign Ministry, 288

French Impressionism, 88

French Resistance, 6, 181

French revolution, 19

Freud, Esther, 141

Freud, Sigmund, 141

Fribourg, Jules, 222

Fribourg, Lucienne, 222

Fribourg, Michel, 222

Fribourg Foundation Inc., 222

Frick, Wilhelm, 260

Friedländer, Max, 185, 280, 283, 284, 285

Friedman, Rebecca, 286

Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Baden, 40

Frye, William E., 294, 295

Fuad, King of Egypt, 93

Fugger, Jakob the Rich, 307

Furmanski, Philip, 290

Fürstenberg, Carl, 29

Fütterer, General Kuno-Heribert, 278

Gainsborough, Thomas, portrait of a young woman, 86, 173, 192

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 222

Gann, Fred [Fredy Gutmann], 175

George VI, King of England, 6

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 313

Germany:

anti-Semitism in, 58–59, 61, 64, 69, 70–71, 79, 82, 91, 92, 95–102, 103, 104, 107

art collections in, 33–34, 181–82, 275

Banking Crisis in, 97

books burned in, 100, 310

Central Collecting Point, Munich, 181, 184, 186, 237, 279, 280, 281, 296, 302

emergence as industrial power, 22, 26

eugenics program in, 259

Expressionist movement in, 87–88

fall of Berlin Wall, 197, 210

Federal Archives of, 257, 276

Gestapo in, 100, 101, 104, 117

hyperinflation in, 69

Jewish conversions in, 37–40, 52

Jewish possessions seized/sold in, 99, 106, 107, 108, 126, 168, 206, 209

Jews stripped of citizenship, 100–101

Kaiser’s Jews (Kaiserjuden) in, 29, 49, 82, 109

Koblenz archives, 295

Kristallnacht in, 20, 106–7

Munich “putsch,” 69, 71

National Liberal Party in, 28

nations invaded by, 106, 108, 113–16

Nazis in, see Nazis

“Night of the Long Knives” in, 100, 101

nonaggression pact with Soviet Union, 108

Nuremberg Trials, 124, 165, 260, 261, 280–81

political rights of Jews in, 20, 21

post–World War I, 6, 66, 67, 68–69

reconstruction (post–World War I), 81

Reichstag burned, 97

restitution settlements from, 6, 195, 211, 223, 249, 283, 303–4

reunification of (1990), 197

surrender in World War II, 164, 279

unification of (1871), 23, 24, 26, 223

Weimar Republic, 28, 68–69, 92, 97

Wiesbaden collecting point, 279

and World War I, 52–55, 58–62

and World War II, 108, 159, 164, 279

see also Berlin; Dresden

Gerron, Kurt, 71, 140

Getty Research Institute, 264, 266, 272, 283, 288

Getty Villa, Malibu, 204, 212, 221

Glasmeier, Heinrich, 235–36

Glaspalast exhibition, Munich, 271

Gobelin tapestry, 243

Goebbels, Joseph, 69, 235–36

Gogh, Vincent van, 124

Portrait of Dr. Gachet, 83, 90

Goldschmidt, Arthur, 174, 180, 206, 208, 209, 276, 277, 282, 284

Goldschmidt, Ernst, 73

Goldschmidt, Jakob, 98

Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Albert von, 175

Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Marion von, 79, 175

Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Nadine von, 247, 304

Gomperts, Albert, 188, 189

Goodman, Bernard (father), 3, 158–76

author’s early memories of, 6, 10–14

birth and infancy of, 53, 54, 60

as British citizen, 53

at Cambridge University, 103–5, 158–59, 158

childhood of, 67–68, 77–79, 77, 78

death of, 4, 14, 84, 198

and Dee, 8, 9, 13, 162, 163, 194, 196

in England, 11, 106, 108–9, 166, 176

estate of, 3, 170–71, 172–74

and Eva Schultze-Dumbsky, 13–14, 196–97

and family in World War II, 163–65

family story of, 11–12, 19

and family trust, 172, 179–80, 187, 189–90

in Gloucestershire Regiment, 7, 160–61

grave of, 306

and his father (Fritz), 67–68

name change of, 11, 160

papers of, 3–6, 104, 124, 188, 198, 199–201, 223, 294, 316

postwar visits to Holland, 165–71, 172–73, 176, 179, 250

quest to recover family art, 15–16, 180–81, 185–92, 193–96, 197, 200, 201, 223, 236, 237, 281–83, 304, 314–15

schooling of, 80

school reunion of, 196

and sister Lili, 67, 78

travels of, 10–11, 14, 17, 194–95, 200, 293–94

wealth of, 104

Goodman, Cheyenne (Nick’s daughter), 219

Goodman, Dee [Irene Doreen Rosy Amy Simpson] (mother), 8, 9, 13, 162, 163, 194, 196

Goodman, James (son), 59, 154, 219, 252, 270

Goodman, May (wife), 59, 219, 254, 270, 274, 308

Goodman, Nick (brother):

birth of, 165

early years of, 9, 171, 179

and family collection, 203, 204, 219, 220, 221–22, 225–26, 227, 230–31, 232–33, 238, 239, 240, 241, 246, 249–50, 252, 289

and father’s papers, 4, 199–200, 316

Goodman, Simon, 179, 314

birth of, 188

certificate of inheritance issued to, 248–49, 303, 304

childhood memories of, 6–9, 200, 314–15

and music business, 315–16

quest to recover family art, 15–16, 220, 241–53, 254, 288–91, 292–313, 314–15, 316–18

retribution sought by, 16

Goodman family:

history of, 19

Jewish background of, 7, 8, 9

papers of, 7

quest to recover lost art, 15–16

Göring, Hermann, 255

art collection of, 117, 122–23, 124, 125, 169, 181, 182, 183, 206, 207, 208, 230, 245, 257, 275, 280, 287, 288

Carinhall estate of, 5, 85, 173, 206

Gutmann silver collection coveted by, 118, 126, 134, 136, 183

internment of, 260

and invasion of Holland, 114–15

and Nuremberg Trials, 165

and Wannsee Conference, 138

Goudstikker, Desi, 115

Goudstikker, Jacques, 81, 83, 115, 123, 183, 238–39

Goudstikker family, 238–39, 256

Goyen, Jan van, 85, 125, 194

Landscape with Two Horsecarts, 183, 187, 232–33, 257

Grange, Tommy [Graupe], 282

Graupe, Paul:

and Baldung Grien portrait, 277, 282, 284

and Degas Paysage, 209, 215

escape to France, 108

escape to Switzerland, 180, 276

and Fritz’s collection, 99, 108, 125, 180, 201, 208, 215, 223

Paris gallery of, 108, 174, 180, 201, 208

postwar claims of, 209, 282

relocation to New York, 282

and Renoir painting, 223

and Sammlung Herbert M. Gutmann, 99

Great Depression, 97, 103

Guardi, Francesco, 126, 173, 192, 288

Paesaggio di Fantasia con Isola della Laguna, 84, 194, 195, 314

View of the Rialto Bridge, 89, 194, 195, 314

Günther & Palmié, Dresden, 22

Gurlitt, Cornelius, 278

Gurlitt, Hildebrand, 277–79, 281

Gustav V, King of Sweden, 93

Gutmann, Alfred (great-grand-uncle), 23, 37, 59, 310

Gutmann, Alice, 174

Gutmann, Bernhard (great-great-grandfather), 19–21

bank of, 20

castle (Schloss Schönfeld) of, 21, 21, 37, 291, 309

grave of, 59, 107, 310

Gutmann, Bernhard Friedrich Eugen (father), see Goodman, Bernard

Gutmann, Daisy (Herbert’s wife), 41–42, 52, 93, 95, 96, 99–102

escape to England, 101–2, 103, 175

Gutmann, Erich Waldemar (Alfred’s son), 59

Gutmann, Eugen (great-grandfather), 18, 22–37

art collection of, see Gutmann, Eugen, art collection

awards and titles to, 29–30

birth and early years of, 22

conversion to Lutheranism, 37–38, 43

death of, 72–73

and Dresdner Bank, 23–27, 64–66, 309

family of, 31, 32–33, 37, 40–44, 51–52, 70

family trust created by, 70, 72, 103, 179, 193

German citizenship of, 68

and Hibernia Affair, 28

move to Netherlands, 66–67

personal traits of, 27–28, 29

portraits of, 19, 26, 69–70, 98, 258, 292, 293, 317–18

retirement of, 69

social connections of, 33, 40, 129

and Sophie, 30–31, 39, 77

tomb of, 107

wealth of, 30, 70

and women, 39–40

Gutmann, Eugen (great-grandfather), art collection, 5, 11, 33–37, 284

Bernini, A Flagellator of Christ, 127, 190

Bohemian crystal cup, 313

Die Kunstammlung Eugen Gutmann catalog (Falke), 294–95, 296, 297, 299, 313

Empire ormolu cabinets, 36

inventories of holdings, 5, 238, 248, 256, 293, 296

Italian bronzes, 35

Jamnitzer Becher (chalice), 36, 73, 127, 190, 292–313

Jamnitzer scales with bronze lizard, 246

legal ownership of, 148–50, 153, 154, 186–89

Lencker ewer, 35, 72, 118, 245–46, 250, 252–53

majolica pottery, 35

medieval illustrated manuscripts, 35

moved to Holland (Bosbeek), 73–75, 118

as “national treasure,” 149, 294, 295

Orpheus Clock, 35, 36, 72, 127, 148, 173, 183, 248, 296–302, 298, 306, 310–11, 313

Ostrich automaton, 127, 246, 300, 311, 311, 313

Petzolt silver-gilt drinking cups, 36, 118, 246, 250, 253, 254

pocket watches, 35

public exhibitions of, 36

recovered art (list), 325–29

Reinhold Clock, 36, 127, 183, 296, 300–301, 302, 311, 313

Renaissance jeweled pendants, 35

Silbersammlung Gutmann, 36, 37, 70, 72, 73, 117–18, 126–27, 134, 136, 148–49, 150, 153, 183, 186, 189–90, 193, 246, 248, 250–53, 256, 292, 293, 295, 302, 313

Silver Cat (Tetzelkatze), 73, 248, 314

silver-gilt sculptures, 35, 242

transferred to Orsini, 148–49, 294, 296

Gutmann, Felix (cousin of Eugen), 44

Gutmann, Fredy [Gann] (Herbert’s son), 102, 175

Gutmann, Fritz [Friedrich] (grandfather), 18–19, 18, 45, 128

artistic interests of, 43, 83–90; see also Gutmann, Fritz [Friedrich], art collection

beaten to death, 153–54, 166, 172, 191, 229

birth and early years of, 31, 42–44

and Bosbeek, 65, 73–75; see also Bosbeek estate

conversion to Lutheranism, 37, 43, 88

and Dresdner Bank, 44, 47, 52, 65, 66, 102–3

Dutch citizenship of, 68

ex libris stamp of, 56–57

and family art collection, 73, 83–84, 108, 125, 148–49, 153, 190, 257, 263

family of, 18, 67, 90

and Gutmann Family Trust, 103, 118, 127, 148–49, 186, 190

and his parents, 33, 39

increasingly dire straits of, 127–34, 144

internment on Isle of Man, 54–58, 60, 66, 142

in London, 47–48, 53–55

marriage of, 48, 51–52

and Nazi invasion of Holland, 113–19

Nazis’ false promises to, 113, 116, 118–19, 125, 131–33, 136, 137, 144, 145, 151

in Netherlands, 62–64, 65–90

newspaper story about, 164

in Paris, 45–47

personal traits of, 42–43, 63–64, 68

portraits of, 42, 64, 76–77, 77, 251

remaining in Holland, 108–9, 115

removed from Bosbeek, 132–34, 248

socializing of, 46, 47–48, 50, 79–83, 173

at Theresienstadt, 136–37, 141–42, 144, 147, 149–51, 152–53, 164, 166

travels of, 76

wealth of, 67, 73

and World War I, 53–58, 60, 62–64, 66

and World War II, 108

Gutmann, Fritz [Friedrich] (grandfather), art collection:

Adoration of the Magi (Master of the St. Bartholomew Altarpiece), 85

Baldung Grien, Portrait of a Young Man, 85, 125, 194, 257, 272, 273–77, 280, 282–87, 289–91

Biagio d’Antonio, The Siege of Veii, 84

Bosch, Temptation of St. Anthony, 86–87

Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap, 173, 194, 227–31, 236

Cranach, Melancholy, 84

Cranach, Portrait of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony, 84–85

Cranach, Samson and the Lion, 84, 125, 186, 192, 257

Degas, Femme se Chauffant, 88, 173, 194, 201, 208, 209, 274

Degas, Paysage or Landscape with Smokestacks, 88, 173, 194, 199, 201, 202–3, 204–6, 208–9, 212–13, 215–19, 219, 253, 274

dispersed prior to World War II, 108

Dosso Dossi, Small Portrait of a Young Man with a Red Jerkin, 85, 183, 194, 208

Elsner, Portrait of a Man, 125, 183, 237, 241, 251, 257

false/forced sales of portions of, 118, 125–27, 257, 263, 273, 275–77, 279, 300

Gainsborough, portrait of a young woman, 86, 173, 192

German Renaissance portraits, 87

Guardi, Paesaggio di Fantasia con Isola della Laguna, 84, 194, 195, 314

Hals, Portrait of Isaac Abrahamsz. Massa, 11, 85

Holbein, head of Madonna, 85, 125, 180, 186, 192, 257

Italian old masters, 84–87

Kienle, Horse and Rider, 118, 245, 253

legal ownership of, 148–50, 186–89, 286

Liotard still lifes, 86, 183, 212–13, 242, 250

Memling, Madonna with Child, 85, 125, 173, 180, 186, 192, 257, 275

Nazi designs on, 117–19, 124–27, 237

Northern Renaissance works, 84

postwar search for and restitution of, 180–81, 183–92, 203–19, 240–53

provenance attributed to, 219, 227, 228

Renoir, Le Poirier, 88, 173, 201, 218, 222–27, 233, 237, 249, 317

Ricci, capriccios, 84

Roberti, The Argonauts Leaving Colchis, 85, 284

Stuck, Die Sünde or Die Sinnlichkeit, 89, 125, 194, 257–59, 262–71, 264, 275, 288, 290, 307, 317

value of, 89–90

Van Goyen landscapes, 85, 183, 187, 194, 232–33, 257

Vigée-Lebrun self-portrait, 86, 126

Gutmann, Hans (Max’s son), 59

Gutmann, Herbert (great-uncle), 18, 31, 82, 92–96

arrest and detention of, 100, 104

art collection sold by, 99

art recovered by grandchildren, 303

banking career of, 41, 44, 47, 60, 65–66, 72, 92, 93, 95

death of, 160, 175

debts of, 102, 107

escape to England, 101–2, 103, 107

Herbertshof estate of, 92–96, 100, 102

in London, 159–60

marriage of, 41–42, 52

and Nazi takeover of banks, 97–99

and Wannsee Golf Club, 94, 94, 99, 138

and World War I, 60

Gutmann, Kurt (great-uncle), 31, 39, 42, 60–61, 71–72, 103, 163, 174, 207–8

Gutmann, Lili (aunt, b. 1919), 14, 104

birth and childhood of, 67, 68, 77–80, 78, 79

and Commerzbank event to honor her father, 305, 309

and Dresdner Bank anniversary, 306, 308–10

and Fritz and Louise’s increasingly dire situation, 128–34, 144

and Gutmann collection, 85, 87, 88, 185–87, 191–93, 195–96, 201, 203, 210–11, 214–15, 216, 219, 234, 237, 241, 242–43, 244–45, 251, 258, 262, 283, 288–89, 292

in hiding, 146–47, 163, 175–76

injury of, 305

marriage to Bosi, 105–6, 129, 145, 163

memories of Bosbeek, 85, 87, 201, 242–43

postwar return to Holland, 175–76

schooling of, 80

Gutmann, Lili (great-aunt, b. 1873); see Orsini, Lili Gutmann

Gutmann, Louise von Landau (grandmother), 18, 45, 48–52

birth and childhood of, 50

and children, 53, 67, 90

death at Auschwitz, 156, 157, 166, 229, 235, 268, 269

Dutch citizenship of, 68

increasingly dire straits of, 128–34

and LaSalle convertible, 76, 76

marriage of Fritz and, 48, 51–52

and Nazi invasion of Holland, 113–14

in Netherlands, 63–64

portraits of, 64, 76–77, 251, 318

remaining in Holland, 115

removed from Bosbeek, 132–34, 248

socializing, 78–79, 80–83

at Theresienstadt, 136–37, 141–42, 144, 147, 149–51, 152–53, 164, 166

travels of, 76

and World War I, 53–54, 98

Gutmann, Luca (Herbert’s son), 94, 95, 102, 115, 159–60, 163, 175

Gutmann, Marie (great-great-grandmother), 19, 59

Gutmann, Marion (Herbert’s daughter), 102, 175

Gutmann, Max (great-uncle), 39, 42, 61, 70, 103

birth of, 31

death of, 189

and Dresdner Bank, 27, 44

in Rome/at risk/in hiding, 105, 146, 163, 174, 188

Vatican connections of, 71, 129, 144

Gutmann, Sophie Magnus (great-grandmother), 30–31, 33, 39, 77, 146, 258, 309

Gutmann, Tobias (great-great-great-grandfather), 19

Gutmann, Toinon [von Essen] (great-aunt), 31, 40, 41, 42, 47, 93, 129

Gutmann, Ursula (Kurt’s daughter), 174

Gutmann, Walther (great-uncle), 31, 41

Gutmann family, 18

art collection of, 33–37, 249, 250–53, 313; see also Gutmann, Eugen; Gutmann, Fritz

of bankers, 11, 65–66

Bosbeek estate of, 65; see also Bosbeek estate

catalog Property from the Gutmann Collection, 249, 250

conversion to Lutheranism, 37–38, 43, 60, 94

family tree, 304, 322–23

family trust, see Gutmann Family Trust

feuding within, 190, 193, 293

graves of, 59–60, 72–73

history of, 19, 231

lost in Holocaust, 174–75

luxury cars of, 75–76, 76

papers of, 7

seeking recovery of family art, 214–19, 302–3

and Swiss bank class-action suit, 239

villa at 10 Rauchstrasse, 31–33, 37, 55, 60, 73

wealth of, 11, 12, 42, 43, 51, 79

see also specific family members

Gutmann Family Trust:

assets restored to, 293

Bernard declared heir to, 172, 179–80, 187, 189–90

depleted by family members in need, 103, 179

Dutch State takeover of, 172, 187

formation of, 70, 72

Fritz’s administration and protection of, 103, 118, 127, 148–49, 186, 190

postwar emergence of, 215

and silver collection, 127, 149, 193

Haber, Fritz, 39

Haberstock, Karl, 183, 206, 207, 275–83

arrest of, 279–80, 281

and Baldung Grien painting, 125, 257, 273, 275–77, 280, 282, 283, 284

and Bosbeek, 124–26, 275, 307

Controversial Art Dealer and Patron of the Arts catalog of collection, 262–64, 270

death of, 283

and “degenerate” art, 123–24

in denazification program, 281

early years of, 123

and Göring’s collection, 124, 280

and Gutmann collection, 124–27, 148, 173, 180, 186, 187, 235, 257, 275–79, 295, 300

and Hitler’s collection, 123, 124, 180, 276, 279

Karl and Magdalene Haberstock Foundation for the Promotion of Science, Education, and Culture, 307

and Monument Men investigation, 277–81

and Nuremberg Trials, 280–81

postwar claims of, 186, 209, 259, 280–81

and silver collection, 126–27, 148, 295

and Stuck painting, 125, 257–59, 261, 275, 307

Hahn, Kurt, 43

Hainauer family, 33

Hall, Ardelia, 293

Hall, Peter Adolf, 34

Hals, Frans, Portrait of Isaac Abrahamsz. Massa, 11, 85

Harsdorf, Baron von, 36

Hastie, James, 267, 268, 271

Heidecke, Christian, 31

Heine, Heinrich, 39

Heinemann, Rudolf, 284–85

Heller, Stephanie, 174

Henraux, Albert, 180–81

Herzfeld, Hugo, 71

Herzfeld-Gutmann, Vera, 42, 71–72, 103

Hess, Rudolf, 91

Het Loo royal palace, Apeldoorn, 241

Heuss, Anja, 299–300, 301, 302–4, 310

Heydrich, Reinhard “Butcher of Prague,” 137, 138, 260

Hibernia Affair, 28

Himmler, Heinrich, 5, 113, 131–32, 136, 144, 260

Hitler, Adolf, 269

alleged opponents murdered, 100

and anti-Semitism, 71, 116, 138

art collection of, 122–23, 125, 181, 183, 192, 206, 257, 275, 276, 279, 280

and Brandt, 255, 259, 260

and Führerbunker, 260

Führermuseum in Linz, 5, 117, 122, 124, 149, 173, 183, 208, 212, 233, 237, 276, 280, 281, 295

and Mussolini, 129, 145

nonaggression pact with Stalin, 108

private funds of, 148

rise to power of, 96, 97, 98, 106

suicide of, 260, 261

watercolor by, 122

and World War II, 106, 107–8

Hofer, Walter Andreas, 117–18, 124, 183, 206, 209, 256, 280, 281

Hoffmann, Doctor, 302

Hofhuis, Helen, 229, 237, 238

Holbein, Hans the Elder, altarpiece fragment of Madonna, 85, 125, 180, 186, 192, 257

Holland, see Netherlands

Holocaust, 13, 164

apology to Jewish people as overdue, 239

art looted during, 16, 219, 238, 274, 281, 291, 294

Dutch treatment of survivors, 185–92

and “Final Solution,” 138

forgetting, 171, 195, 211, 213, 218, 239, 285

and Kristallnacht, 20, 106–7

landmark cases in art recovery from, 212, 219, 233

“memorial candle” child, 317

official beginning of, 94

scale of, 165, 174

unfinished business of, 217, 317

and Washington Principles, 232–33

see also Nazis; Theresienstadt

Holzing-Berstett, Adolf von, 40

Hope, Adrian Elias, 74

Hope Diamond, 74

Hope family, 74

“Horst Wessel Song, The,” 105

Hotel de Rome, Berlin, 26

Hotel Excelsior, Rome, 146

Huldschinsky, Gertrud, 174

Humboldt, Wilhelm and Margarethe von, 79

Hummel, Helmut von, 148, 295

Hunger Winter (1944–45), 168

I.G. Farben, 141

International Red Cross, 139–40, 164

Interpol, 211, 223, 282

Iron Curtain, lifting of, 197, 210

Isenbrandt, Adriaen, 87, 125, 183, 192, 257

Isle of Man:

“enemy aliens” interned on, 159

Fritz’s incarceration on, 55–58, 60, 66, 142

Fritz’s release from, 62–64

Italian Renaissance table, 241, 247

Italy:

anti-Semitism in, 105, 129

artworks looted from, 279

and Axis alliance, 129, 145

Gutmann connections in, 128–32, 133, 143, 144, 145, 150, 159

Jews in hiding in, 146–47

Jews transported to extermination camps from, 146

Nazi occupation of, 14, 145–46, 147

Nuremberg-style laws in, 105

and rescue of Italian Jews, 130

surrender to Allies, 145

Jaffe, David, 221–22

Jamnitzer, Abraham, Becher (chalice), 36, 73, 127, 190, 292–313

Jamnitzer, Wenzel, 35, 297, 298

Jamnitzer scales with bronze lizard, 246

Janis, Eugenia Parry, 206, 210

Jeu de Paume Museum, Paris, 181, 206, 208

Jewish Museum, Berlin, 26

Jewish Question, “Final Solution” to, 138

Jöckel, Heinrich, 152

Jodl, Alfred, 260

Jonas, Édouard, 263

Juliana, Princess, 82, 105

Jurk, Michael, 304

Kafka, Franz, 141

Kafka, Ottilie, 141

Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 95

Kalckreuth, Countess Anna von, 80

Kaskel, Carl von, 23

Kaskel, Felix von, 23

Kaskel family, 23

Kassel Museum, Germany, 278

Katz, Nathan, 118

Keitel, Wilhelm, 260

Kemp, Barbara, 40

Kendall, Richard, Degas Landscapes, 202–3

Kesselring, Albert, 260

Kessler, Horst, 263

Khrushchev, Nikita, 242

Kienle, Hans Ludwig, Horse and Rider, 118, 245, 253

Killy, Doctor, 276

Kleiber, Erich, 79

Kleist, Paul Ludwig Ewald von, 278

Klimt, Gustav, 266

Kline, Tom:

and Botticelli Portrait, 228–29, 230–31

and Degas Paysage, 204, 205, 216

and Renoir Le Poirier, 222–23, 224, 225

and Stuck Sinnlichkeit, 265, 267

Klutznick National Jewish Museum, 232

Koenigs, Christine, 227, 239, 247, 256

Koenigs, Franz, 80, 83, 90, 121, 183, 227

Koenigs family, 80, 127, 173, 238

Kok, Wim, 239

Kolbe, Georg, 79

Korte, Willi, 204, 206

Kristallnacht, 20, 106–7

Lake Garda, Italy, 288

Lake Starnberg, Bavaria, 294, 295, 302

Landau, Emma von, 174

Landau, Eugen von, 50, 58, 309

Landau, Jacob von, 48–49, 157, 309

Landau, Margarete von, 49

Landau, Thekla von, 48, 50, 107, 120, 243

Landau, Wilhelm von, 49–50

Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, 299, 300, 305

Lang, Fritz, 71–72

Langen, Carl von, 80

Lanz, Anna, 80

Lanz, Otto, 80–81, 83, 118

Lanz family, 238

Lederer, Hugo, bust of Eugen by, 69–70, 309

Lederer, Siegfried, 147

Lederer, Zdenek, 172

Ghetto Theresienstadt, 136, 150, 171

Ledermann, Franz, 107, 174

Ledermann, Ilse, 174

Ledermann, Susi, 120, 174

Lemoisne, P. A., 205

Lenbach, Franz von, 89, 192, 303

portrait of Eugen Gutmann, 19, 258, 292, 293, 317–18

portrait of Sophie Gutmann, 258

Lencker, Johannes, ewer by, 35, 72, 118, 245–46, 250, 252–53

Lerner, Ralph, 205

Lessing, Erich, 265

Lessing, Karl Friedrich, 260

Leuchtmann, R., 186

Lewald, Elizabeth, 278

Lewald, Fanny, 278

Liebermann, Max, 26, 33, 293

Linz, Führermuseum (Hitler’s museum) in, 5, 117, 122, 124, 149, 173, 183, 208, 212, 233, 237, 276, 280, 281, 295

Liotard, Jean-Étienne, 305

landscapes by, 86, 183

The Tea Set, 212–13, 242

Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince Bernhard zur, 82

Lohse, Bruno, 207, 280, 282

London:

Alien Restriction Order, 53–55

Christie’s auction of Gutmann collection in, 251–54

Dresdner Bank in, 26, 47

and World War I, 52–55, 159

London Conference on Nazi Gold, 226

Louis Ferdinand, Prince, 93

Louis XV and XVI furniture, 126, 187, 213, 235, 241, 243, 244, 250, 270

Ludwig II, “mad” King of Bavaria, 48, 184

Lusitania, sinking of, 54

Lütjens, Helmuth, 83, 205

MacRobert family, 161

Maes, Nicholas, 183

Maglione, Cardinal Luigi, 131

Magnus, Hermann, 30

Magnus, Sophie, see Gutmann, Sophie Magnus

Mahler, Willy, 150

Maisels, Rikard, 121

Making a Killing (documentary), 213, 268

Mallard Corporation, 224, 225, 226

Manheimer, Vally, 174

Mann, Thomas, 33

Mannheimer, Fritz, 81, 83

Mannheimer family, 238

Master of the Mornauer Portrait, 85

Master of the St. Bartholomew Altarpiece, Adoration of the Magi, 85

Matisse, Henri, Odalisque, 232, 233

Max of Baden, Prince, 40, 61

Mayer, August Liebmann, 282–83

McCullagh, Suzanne, 253

Meijer, Maarten, 248

Meissen porcelain, 32, 75, 83, 99, 126, 184, 238, 241, 242, 245, 246–48, 255, 289

Melchior, Carl, 61

Memling, Hans, Madonna with Child, 85, 125, 173, 180, 186, 192, 257, 275

Mendelssohn & Co., 81

Mendelssohn family, 94

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 202, 203, 228

Meyer, Bettie, 174

Michelangelo, Bruges Madonna, 183

Miedl, Alois, 117–18, 123, 124, 173, 257

Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung, und Kunst Baden-Württemberg, 303

Misch, Arthur, 174

Modernism, 88–89

Montgomery, Bernard, 1st Viscount, 7

Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) [Monuments Men], 182–86, 189, 192, 207, 208–9, 233, 237, 277–79, 293, 302

Moore, Dudley, 9–10

Morgan, J. Pierpont, 36, 46

Mueller, Waldemar, 44

Mühlmann, Kajetan, 117, 123, 124, 173, 183, 257

Müsch, Irmgard, 310–11

Museum of Modern Art, New York, 232

Mussolini, Benito, 100, 105, 129, 143, 145, 147

Napoléon Bonaparte, 19, 36

Nathan, Henry, 29, 65–66

National Archives, Washington, DC, 232, 293–94

National Gallery, Berlin, 262

National Gallery, Washington, DC, 190

National Gallery of Canada, 305

Navarro, Rafael, 224

Nazis:

anti-Semitism of, 91–92, 91, 95–106, 175

assets stolen/fake purchases by, 15, 99, 116–19, 122–28, 148, 168–71, 173–74, 180–84, 186–92, 206–7, 209, 212, 215, 218–19, 226, 228, 230, 240, 245, 256, 257, 275–77, 280, 281, 295, 296

banks taken over by, 97–99, 102–3, 126, 309, 310

barbarism of, 109, 153, 168

books burned by, 100, 310

concentration camps of, 106, 137–41, 144–45, 157, 164, 166

ERR, 180, 187, 206–8, 223, 225, 256, 282

and “Final Solution,” 138

Gutmann belongings swept away by, 11–12, 127–28, 142, 191

industrialized murder by, 164

inventories of collection, 235, 248, 256, 296

and Kristallnacht, 20, 106–7

and Munich “putsch,” 69, 71

and Nuremberg Trials, 124, 165, 260, 261, 280

patina of legality, 124, 127, 148–49, 150, 184, 294, 295, 296

“second-generation loot” from, 302

Netherlands:

anti-Semitism in, 119–21, 166–68, 236, 243, 275

art sales in, 192, 236

art treasures in, 116–19, 124, 192, 236, 237, 238, 240

Bernard’s return visits to, 165–71, 172–73, 176, 179, 250

Bosbeek in, see Bosbeek estate

claims filed with government for Gutmann family art, 185–86, 256, 287

Dutch Art Property Collection (NK), 238

Ekkart Committee, 238–40

and end of World War I, 66

German invasion of, 113–19

ghetto in Amsterdam, 127, 131

Gutmann family in, 62–64, 65–90, 103, 104, 166, 173

Hunger Winter (1944–45), 168

Jewish assets seized/sold in, 103, 118, 119–21, 128, 167, 168, 236, 240, 275, 279

Jewish refugees in, 107, 116, 167

Jewish resistance in, 120

Jews deported from, 165

Jews lost in Holocaust, 165, 174

Nazification of banks in, 102–3, 126

Nazi occupation of, 6, 116–34, 168, 191

neutrality of, 107–8

Origins Unknown (Herkomst Gezocht) agency, 238–39, 240, 256, 288

postwar, 168–71, 239

postwar art recovery/restitution in, 184–85, 186–92, 237, 238–53, 256, 289, 315

postwar treatment of Jewish survivors, 236–40

“restitution” bureau, 6, 167, 171, 172, 185–92, 233, 288

World War I internees released to, 62–64

Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN), 241, 243–48

Netherlands Property Management Office, 128

Netherlands Red Cross, 162

Dutch (free) Red Cross, 162, 163, 165, 171

Neuschwanstein castle (“Mad Ludwig’s castle”), 184

Neville, Rena, 230

New York State Banking Department, Holocaust Claims Processing Office, 233, 286

New York World’s Fair (1939), 86

Nibelungen gold, 37, 193

Nicholas, Lynn, The Rape of Europa, 204

Núñez Fábrega de Baeza, Dolores Brunilda, 224–27

Nuremberg Laws, 100, 105

Nuremberg Trials, 124, 165, 260, 261, 280–81

Old Castle, Stuttgart, 310–13

Oppenheim, Salomon, 20

Oppenheim family, 23, 257

Oppenhejm, Ralph, 151, 152

Orpheus Clock, 72, 298

acquired by Eugen, 35, 36

legal ownership of, 148

lost from Bosbeek estate, 173

in Nazi warehouse, 127, 148

postwar location of, 183, 293

recovery of, 248, 296–302, 306, 310–11, 313

renamed Fremersdorf 1, 299

sand and dirt in, 301–2, 311, 317

Orpheus clocks, 34–35, 298–99, 306

Orpheus Clocks, The (Coole and Neumann), 298, 299

Orpheus in the Underworld, legend of, 35, 297

Orsenigo, Archbishop, 130, 132, 144

Orsini Baroni, Luca, 18, 40, 100, 105, 145, 189

and Fritz and Louise’s removal from Bosbeek, 134

and Gutmann art collection, 148–49, 294, 296

and Gutmann connection, 129, 130, 131–32, 143, 144, 275

and Gutmann family trust, 127, 149

Orsini, Lili Gutmann (great-aunt), 18, 31

exempt from anti-Semitic laws, 105, 147, 175

and Holzing-Berstett, 40

and Italian nobility, 71, 129

marriage to Orsini, 40

in postwar Italy, 173, 174–75

Orthodox Church of Cyprus, 204

OSS (Office of Strategic Services), Art Looting Investigation Unit, 182–83, 209, 280

Ostade, Adriaen van, 87, 194

Osten, Gert von der, Paintings and Documents, 273, 283–84

Ostrich automaton, 127, 246, 300, 311, 311, 313

Pacelli, Archbishop Eugenio (later Pius XII), 71, 129

Paillou, Peter, 34

Pannwitz, Catalina von (Aunt Käthe), 81, 82, 83, 104, 118

Pannwitz, Ursula, 82

Pannwitz, Walther von, 81, 82

Papen, Franz von, 95, 100, 165

Paris:

Allied liberation of, 282

Fritz and Louise in, 45–47

Gutmann art stored in, 6, 223, 225, 256, 275–76, 277, 282

Gutmann family refugees in, 174

Nazi occupation of, 125, 207–8, 215

postwar search for Gutmann art in, 174, 180–81, 187, 201, 212

Parke-Bernet, 222, 224

Paul Cassirer & Co., Berlin, 83, 88

Pavlova, Anna, 47

Paysan, Moritz, 310, 311

Pereira, Baron Alfons von, 271

Petzolt, Hans, silver-gilt drinking cups by, 36, 118, 246, 250, 253, 254

Phillips, Anthony, 250, 252

Piaf, Edith, 282

Piccadilly Gallery, London, 264–65

Pietà sculpture, fifteenth century, 180, 287–89, 287

Pietrabissa, Franco, 130

Pilkington, Godfrey, 265

Pissarro, Camille, 88

Pius XII, Pope, 71, 129

Plietzsch, Eduard, 117, 124, 257

Ploeg, Rick van der, 241

Poellnitz, Baron von, 277, 278

Poland, extermination camps in, 146

Porten, Henny, 71

Porter, Marc, 219, 252

Poschinger, Heinrich von, 49

Posse, Hans, 122

Poznanski, Maurice, 174

Princip, Gavrilo, 52, 155

Proehl, Ernst, 66, 67, 80, 83, 84, 103, 173

Proehl, Ilse, 80, 103

Proehl & Co., 103

Proehl & Gutmann, 67, 81, 102–3

psychogenealogy, 317

Quedlinburg, art looted from church in, 204

Radnitzky, Emmanuel (Man Ray), 76

Rahm, Karl, 140, 149, 150, 152, 155, 164

Rathenau, Walther, 26, 43, 61, 71

Rathenau family, 29

Ray, Man, portraits by, 42, 64, 76–77, 251, 318

Redlich, Egon “Gonda,” 136

Rehborn, Anni, 255, 259

Reichsbank, 97, 99

Reinhold, Johann, 311

Reinhold Clock, 36, 127, 183, 296, 300–301, 302, 311, 313

The Great Astronomical Table Clock of Johann Reinhold: Augsburg 1581 to 1592, 301

Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo, 90

Renaissance, 35, 84, 87, 297, 298, 306–7

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, 124

Le Poirier or The Pear Tree (in Bloom), 88, 173, 201, 218, 222–27, 233, 237, 249, 317

Reynaud, Paul, 81

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 96, 101, 108, 165, 260

Ricci, Marco, capriccios by, 84

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 241, 242, 248, 249–50, 252, 253, 288, 289, 290

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, 237, 241

Ritz Hotel, Paris, 46, 174, 207–8, 278

Robbia, Andrea della, armorial plaque, 251

Robert, Hubert, 126, 192

Roberti, Ercole de’, The Argonauts Leaving Colchis, 85, 284

Robinson, Walter, 229

Rocca, Michele, Rinaldo and Armida, 251

Rodrigo, Evert, 244

Rosen, Barry, 216

Rosenberg, Alfred, 5, 165

Rosenberg, Paul, 232, 233

Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, 284

Rothschild, Edmond de, 46

Rothschild, Karl von, 35–36, 246

Rothschild family, 23, 32, 34, 46, 175, 184, 304

Rousseau, Theodore, 280

Rubens, Peter Paul:

in Göring’s collection, 122

The Coronation of the Virgin, 99

Rundstedt, Gerd von, 260

Rutgers University, 273–74, 284–85, 286, 289–91

Safer, Morley, 212–13

Saher, Marei von, 239

St. Florian monastery, Austria, 184, 235–36

San Diego Museum of Art, 11, 85

San Gimignano, towers of, 105, 147, 175

Sapuppo, Baron Giuseppe, 129, 175

Sapuppo, Jacobea, 175

Sauermann, Hans, 183, 295, 296, 301, 302

Savonerrie carpet, 244, 251

Saxony, Kings of, 20, 34

Schacht, Hjalmar, 27, 69, 95, 99, 101, 165

Schermerhorn, Wim, 167–68

Schleicher, Kurt von, 95

Schloss Schönfeld, 21, 21, 37, 291, 309

Schloss Zeesen, 40, 73

Schoenberg, Randy, 266, 267, 268

Schönemann, Dr. and Frau, 261

Schultze-Dumbsky, Eva, 13–14, 196–97, 226–27, 247, 306

Schuster-Burckhardt, Hans, 40, 44, 47

Schuszler, Angela:

Chickens, 235, 236, 237, 241

Ducks at a Pond, 235, 236, 237, 241

Sciamplicotti, Cesare, 39, 146

“Search, The” (CBS-TV), 212–13, 227

Searle, Daniel, 203, 204–6, 208, 209, 210–11, 212, 213–19, 222, 225, 253

Seattle Art Museum, 232, 233

Seattle Jewish Film Festival, 217

Seeck, Franz, 72

Seghers, Hercules, 87, 194, 286, 288

Seidl, Siegfried, 137

Seligmann, Jacques, 83

Seligmann brothers’ gallery, Paris, 46

Semper, Gottfried, 20

Seyss-Inquart, Artur, 117, 136, 165, 260, 275

S. G. Warburg & Co., 31

Signorelli, Luca, 87, 187

Baptism of Christ, 208

Simmons, Lucian, 233, 306

Simpson, James Young, 8

Singer, Israel, 238, 239

Six-Day War, 13

60 Minutes, 212–13, 227

SNK (Dutch Art Collections Foundation), 184–85, 186–87, 189–90, 192, 237

Sobernheim brothers, 50, 309

Sobernheim, Curt, 174

Sobibór concentration camp, 164

Sotheby’s, 249, 250, 306

and Botticelli Portrait, 227–31

and Degas Paysage, 218

Important Old Masters Paintings catalog, 227

in-house restitution department, 233

and Renoir Le Poirier, 223–24, 226–27

Soviet Union:

nonaggression pact with Germany, 108

Red Army “trophy brigades,” 182

Spain, Nazi bombing in, 106

Spanish Inquisition, 131

Speer, Albert, 259, 260

Speer, Margarete, 259

Spielmann (guard), 153

Spier, Jo, 139, 166

Spitzer, Frédéric, 34, 35

Stalin, Joseph, 108

State Department, US, and Washington Principles, 232–33

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 228

Steinberg, Elan, 238

Stevenson, Mary, 39

Stoffel, Alexander, 313

Stout, George, 233

Streicher, Julius, 260

Stresemann, Gustav, 28

Strölin, Alfred, 283

Stuck, Franz von, Die Sünde (The Sin) or Die Sinnlichkeit (The Sensuality), 89, 125, 194, 257–59, 262–71, 264, 275, 288, 290, 307, 317

Sudetenland, annexation of, 106, 108

Swiss Banking Association, 207

Switzerland:

art smuggled into, 207, 208

artworks looted from, 279

Claims Resolution Tribunal, 289–90

class-action suit against Swiss banks, 238, 239

negotiations with, 249

safe harbor for “abandoned” assets, 207, 209, 239, 274, 286

Tan, Shuchen, 235, 240, 242

Taper, Bernard, 209

Theresienstadt, 135–57

documentary film of, 140

early history of, 137–38

escapes from, 147–48

Fritz and Louise in, 141–42, 144, 147, 149–51, 152–53

Fritz and Louise’s arrival at, 136–37, 164, 166

Fritz beaten to death in, 153–54, 166, 172, 191, 229

Kleine Festung (Little Fortress), 135, 137–38, 148, 151–54, 155, 166

lists of survivors, 164–65

Louise’s transport to Auschwitz from, 156, 157

mass grave in, 154

as “model” concentration camp, 5, 138–40, 144, 164

number of deaths in, 140, 165

“Potemkin village” of, 139–40

prisoners released from, 144–45

Red Army arrival at, 154

Red Cross tour of, 139–40

“special cases” in, 141

transport to extermination camps from, 138, 140

walled community of Terezin, 154–56

Third Reich Radio Corporation, 235

Thoma, Hans, 260

Thurn und Taxis, Prince von, 279

Thyssen, Fritz, 96

Thyssen, Heinrich, 79, 284

Treblinka concentration camp, 164

Trienens, Howard, 213, 216

Troller, Norbert, 151

Trotti, Count Ercole, 46, 84

Ubbens, Jop, 249, 251

Union Bank of Switzerland, 225

United States:

Nazi loot in, 210; see also specific collections and museums

war archives of, 289, 293–94

United States of America v. Karl Brandt, et al., 261

Universum Film AG (UFA), 71–72

Utrecht, Governor of, 234–35

Utten, Hans, Silver Cat by, 73, 248, 314

Valland, Rose:

and Baldung Grien, 281–83

and Botticelli Portrait, 228

and Degas paintings, 201, 202, 203

and French Resistance, 181

and Gutmann collection, 187, 194, 211, 228, 233, 288

and Jeu de Palme museum, 181, 206

photographs taken by, 181, 199, 201, 202, 203, 221, 223

and recovery of art, 187, 233

and Renoir landscape, 201, 223

Van Diemen Gallery, Berlin, 83

Vasari, Giorgio, 85

Vatican:

limited influence of, 130, 144, 145, 147

Max granted refuge in, 146

Vermeer, Jan, The Astronomer, 183

Veronese, Paolo, 87, 180

Versailles, Treaty of, 61

Victoria, Queen of England, 8

Vienna, Gutmann family members in, 263

Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth, self-portrait, 86, 126

Villa Favorita, Lugano, 284

Vollard, Ambroise, 83, 88

Vos, Rik, 244, 248

Voss, Herman, 149

Wacker-Bondy, Mme., storage, 183, 223, 225, 276, 277, 282

Wagner, Siegfried, 70, 71

Wagner, Winifred, 70

Wallach, Fritz, 174

Wallich, Hermann, 51

Wallich, Paul, 50–52

Wannsee Conference, 94, 138

Wannsee Golf Club, 94, 94, 99, 138

Wannsee internment camp, 207

Warburg, Alice Magnus, 30

Warburg, Max, 28, 30, 61

Warburg, Sir Siegmund, 31, 96, 97

Warburg family, 29, 30–31

War Picture Library, 7, 8

Washington Principles, 232–33, 249, 290

Webber, Anne, Making a Killing, 213–14, 217, 238

Weimar Republic, 28, 68–69, 92, 97

Weinberg, Arthur von, 141

Weissenberger, Otto, 263

Wendland, Hans Adolf, 183, 206, 207–9, 215, 276, 282

Westerbeek, J. E., 132–33, 168–70

Westerbork detention camp, 119–20, 131, 139

West Germany, see Germany

Wetzlar, R., 228–29

Wilhelm, Crown Prince, 82, 93, 96

Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 29, 58, 61, 81–82, 96

Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, 115

Willem-Alexander, Crown Prince, 234–35

Williams-Bulkeley, Harry, 252

Wiman, Anna, 9–10

Winter Olympics (1936), 104, 105

Wit, Jacob de, 288

Bosbeek renovation by, 74, 75

ceiling oil canvas (Bacchus and Ceres in the Clouds) by, 75, 168–70, 169, 243, 247

grisaille (Autumn) by, 74, 75, 169, 243

Wittmann, Otto Jr., 209

Wolf, Emile, 209–10

Wolf-Walborsky, Evelyne, 210

Wood, James, 217

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 232, 233

World Jewish Congress (WJC), 238, 239

World War I:

end of, 61–64, 66

onset of, 52–55

period between World Wars, 74–75

veterans of, in Theresienstadt, 139

World War II, 58–62, 73, 173

in Britain, 6–7, 54–58, 159

German blitzkrieg in, 108

German surrender in, 164

and Nazis, 181–82; see also Nazis

onset of, 108–9

Phony War, 108

portents of, 107–8

Württemberg State Collection, Stuttgart, 310–13

Zelleke, Ghenete, 253

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 274, 284, 285–87, 289–91

Zionism, 37, 168