Egon Schiele’s Dead City – Stolen from Fritz Grunbaum
You can WATCH and LISTEN to my Powerpoint presentation with audio is now available here from the presentation I gave at Sotheby’s Institute on March 24, 2010 in a program sponsored by the New York State Bar Association’s Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section, chaired by Prof. Judith Prowda.
More material on artworks stolen from Fritz Grunbaum while he was in the Dachau Concentration Camp can be found at http://artstolenfromfritzgrunbaum.wordpress.com/.
Egon Schiele’s Girl With Black Hair – Experts Agree Stolen From Fritz Grunbaum
Falsified Provenance Published by Oberlin College’s Allen Memorial Art Museum
Watch and listen to my Sotheby’s Institute presentation and learn about why Oberlin College’s provenance of Girl With Black Hair, found here, is false.
A summary of the evidence that Oberlin College has concealed below:
Below: the cover of the 1956 Gutekunst & Klipstein (aka Galerie Kornfeld) – Eberhard Kornfeld testified that all of the artworks in this catalog belonged to Fritz Grunbaum. Dead City was the only artwork pictured that listed Fritz Grunbaum as the prior owner.
Oberlin has never put Fritz Grunbaum’s ownership of Girl With Black Hair in the provenance even though evidence of experts concluding that Fritz Grunbaum owned Girl With Black Hair was reported by Steven Litt of The Plain Dealer
Prewar catalogs show that Fritz Grunbaum owned Girl With Black Hair – Oberlin refuses to list these catalogs in its provenance of Girl With Black Hair
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Girl With Black Hair, according to Eberhard Kornfeld, spent 147 days in Switzerland before being sold to Otto Kallir on September 18, 1956.
Girl With Black Hair, according to Eberhard Kornfeld, spent 147 days in Switzerland before being sold to Otto Kallir on September 18, 1956.
Otto Kallir was Fritz Grunbaum’s art dealer in Vienna. Kallir had catalogued Dead City as being in Fritz Grunbaum’s collection in 1930 when he wrote a catalogue raisonne of Schiele’s oils. As Otto Kallir’s grand-daughter, Jane Kallir, testified at trial: Fritz Grunbaum owned Girl With Black Hair.
So why does Oberlin‘s President Marvin Krislov refuse to admit Fritz Grunbaum’s ownership?
by Ray Dowd at 7:32 PM 
Crossposted, see also
http://copyrightlitigation.blogspot.com/2010/04/watch-and-listen-powerpoint-and-audio.html