Evelyn Tucker

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Evelyn Tucker (born August 15, 1906 in Pensacola , Florida , † August 18, 1996 in Santa Fe , New Mexico ) was an American officer and gallery owner. She was assigned to the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section of the United States Army to record looted art in Austria . She then ran an art gallery.

Life

Tucker was born into the family of Robert Tucker and Lucy Fanny. Armistead was born. She studied art at Arcadia High School and the University of Miami. The mother came from the educated patriciate in New England .

After the early death of her parents, she looked after her siblings Clarence and Anna. She worked in the Miami Police Department radio headquarters as a secretary to a judge, the Florida Senate and Governor, and an airline.

At the beginning of the war she joined the Women's Army Corps. After a time as secretary at the Nuremberg Trials , she was appointed the American commissioner for the collection of looted art at the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section in Austria.

She worked closely with Herbert Stewart Leonard and Stefan P. Munsing at the Munich Central Collecting Point and discovered stolen property of the Rothschild , Bondi and Karl Lanckoroński families . She found kidnapped Polish cultural assets in Fischhorn Castle . In a warehouse in Salzburg she came across 1181 works of art, including a Rembrandt etching from 1634, a "Seascape" by Salomon van Ruysdael and a work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner .

In 1949 she went back to the United States and opened a gallery in Miami Beach .

She exhibited magical-realistic landscapes by Robert Draper from a Navajo reservation in New Mexico . The portraitist Frank Donnini , the abstract painter Sebastiano Trovato , the sculptors Jon Louie Keller and Bernard Simon , and the puppet artist Jero Magon found their support. The lacquer work by Arthur Voelkel , the flower compositions by Mildred Hayward and the landscapes by Lisl Beer were very popular with the public. Tennessee Williams was among the visitors .

literature

  • Washington National Archives, NARA M1926. Records of the Reparations and Restitutions Branch of the US Allied Commission for Austria (USACA) Section. National Archives Catalog Title: General Administrative Records, compiled 1946-1950, MFA Field Reports (Miss Tucker), Date Range: 1945-1950, File Number: R&R 54
  • Evelyn Tucker, MFA & A Representative, Interoffice Memorandum to Major Weber Property Control Branch, October 27, 1947
  • Greg Murphy, Austria: A Comparison and Contrast in US Restitution Policy Vis-A-Vis Germany, July 19, 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Virginia Armistead Garber: The Armistead Family, 1635-1910 ; Richmond 1910, p. 275.
  2. ↑ Miamian Makes Highmark In WAAC alertness test , Miami Daily News, 2 March 1943 p.6
  3. ↑ Ann W. ONeill: Letter Leads To Gold Train Claims , Sun Sentinel, November 29, 2003
  4. ↑ Joyce Hackett: The Report of a US Commission Promises Worrying , Der Tagesspiegel, May 19, 2000
  5. ^ Art Treasures Restored , The Miami News, May 5, 1949, p. 34
  6. ^ Continuing Tucker Exhibit Scores With Varied Works , The Miami News, March 30, 1958, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Tucker, Evelyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American officer and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Pensacola , Florida , United States
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1996
Place of death Santa Fe , New Mexico , United States