August Lederer
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August Lederer (May 3, 1857 in Böhmisch Leipa (Austria-Hungary) - April 30, 1936 in Vienna), was an Austrian industrialist and art collector whose art collection was looted by Nazis. He helped promote the artists of the Vienna Secession, notably Gustav Klimt.
Biography
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August Lederer turned a money losing ethanol plant located in Győr (Raab in German) into a profitable production unit. He acquires a company similar to Jungbunzlau - a firm still belonging to the same group, near Laa an der Thaya.
In 1892 he married Serena Pulitzer (1867–1943).
The couple are representative of these rich bourgeois Austrian Jews assimilated, great art lovers and who devote a good part of their fortune to patronage. The Lederers live in Vienna, Bartensteingasse No. 8, where they keep most of their artistic treasures; they also have a residence in Raab as well as a summer residence in Weidlingau, the “Ledererschlössel” (“Manoir Lederer”), decorated with frescoes by Anton Faistauer.
In 1912 they met Egon Schiele, who that year spent with them in Gy euxr a memorable Christmas, and became particularly friends with their son Erich, whom he painted and drew several times.
Lederer acquired the Beethoven Frieze from Carl Reininghaus in 1915.[1]
Their relationship with Klimt was very friendly, intimate to the point that Elisabeth Franziska Lederer, born in 1894, was able to affirm during the Nazi period to be the adulterous daughter of the painter and to receive in 1940 a certificate of filiation establishing that she was only “Half-Jewish”, while her two brothers, Erich and Fritz, were considered full Jews.
The Gestapo seized most of the Lederer's art collection.
The Lederer collection, confiscated in 1938, was stored mainly at Immendorf Castle in Lower Austria, where it would have largely burned in early 1945 under poorly clarified circumstances - which seems to contradict the fact that Isolated paintings resurfaced after the war, which were returned to the heirs.
In 2013 the Lederer heirs initiated a lawsuit to claim restitution of the Beethoven Frieze.[2] Austria refused the claim.[3][4]
Bibliography
- Christian M. Nebehay, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele und die Familie Lederer (Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele et la famille Lederer), Vienne, 1979.
- Tobias G. Natter et Gerbert Frodl, Klimt und die Frauen (Klimt et les femmes), Cologne-Vienne, 2000.
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References
- ^ "Book review | The tortuous story of Gustav Klimt's Nazi-looted, 100ft-wide Beethoven Frieze uncovered". www.theartnewspaper.com. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
- ^ "La Frise Beethoven – Héritiers Lederer c. Autriche — Centre du droit de l'art". plone.unige.ch. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
- ^ "Austria to keep Nazi-looted Klimt masterpiece". www.thelocal.at. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Locker, Melissa. "Austria Plans To Keep Klimt Painting Once Looted By Nazis". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2021-02-28.