Ferenc from Hatvany

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Jan Steen , Farmer at Skittles , went to Baron F. Hatvany according to the provenance of Hugh Percy Lane and was acquired by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in 1917 .

Baron Ferenc von Hatvany (also Ferenc Hatvany or François de Hatvany ; born October 29, 1881 in Budapest ; † February 7, 1958 in Lausanne ) was a painter and art collector from the Hungarian industrialist family Deutsch, who had acquired the castle in Hatvan in 1880 and in 1908 when German was ennobled by Hatvany .

Life

The son of the sugar industrialist Sándor Deutsch de Hatvan was raised in Budapest and Berlin. He was baptized but was of Jewish descent. As a painter he was one of the students of Adolf Fényes , Sándor Bihari and Jean-Paul Laurens . Hatvany exhibited at the gallery owners Cassirer in Berlin and Bernheim in Paris. At the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne in 1912, the picture of the female nude was shown in an armchair .

His art collection is said to have consisted of around 800 works, most of which were Impressionist paintings, such as by Paul Cézanne , Edgar Degas , Édouard Manet , Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir . Paintings and drawings by Jacopo Tintoretto , Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Gustave Courbet , including The Origin of the World , were also included. It also included works of art by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , Pissarro, El Greco and Tizian . There were also Isfahan carpets from the 16th century, tapestries and precious jewels. The works were kept in the Hatvany Palace at Hunyadi János Ut 26 in Budapest.

Many of the works were lost, stolen or confiscated during World War II . It has not yet been clarified whether the Hatvany collection in Budapest was stolen by the German SS or the Soviet Red Army in 1945 . Ferenc von Hatvany is buried in the Grandvaux cemetery on Lake Geneva . The grave still exists today (as of June 2017).

The German affair

The lawyer Hans Deutsch was able to negotiate a compensation payment of 17.5 million DM for the heirs . In 1964 Hans Deutsch was charged with fraud along with other people. The co-defendants included the former SS leaders Friedrich Wilcke and Franz Visney. The fraud allegedly occurred in connection with the reparation proceedings. German was later acquitted, but the court hearings found that the information provided by Hatvany's heirs was incorrect. The Hatvanys' witnesses appointed for this purpose had sworn perjuries. In particular, the information on the number and whereabouts of the paintings turned out to be contradictory.

literature

  • Hans Morgenstern: Jewish biographical lexicon. A collection of important personalities of Jewish origin from 1800, LIT Verlag, Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-8258-0509-8 .
  • László Mravik: Hungary's Pillaged Art Heritage. Part Two: The Fate of the Hatvany Collection. In: Hungarian Quarterly, Vol. 39: 15: 1998.
  • László Mravik: Princes, Counts, Idlers and Bourgeois: A Hundred Years of Hungarian Collecting, 3rd part. In T. Kieselbach (ed.): Studies in Modern Hungarian Painting 1892-1919.

See also

Web links

Commons : Ferenc von Hatvany  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Uta Baier: The Trace of Images, Welt Online July 26, 2005 online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sonderbund, catalog # 316
  2. ↑ a b Burkhart List: From the German judiciary to the fraudsters stamped in: Die Weltwoche from 23 August 2001 / issue 34/01
  3. ↑ a b DER SPIEGEL 15/1966: "AFFAIR GERMAN - Bigger Fish - REPUTATION"
  4. ↑ About the collection ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freeweb.hu
  5. ↑ a b Uta Baier: The trace of the pictures in: Welt-Online July 26, 2005 see web links
  6. ↑ Robert Savary (contributor 48881410): Ferenc de Hatvany. Find a Grave, July 2, 2017, accessed October 31, 2018 .
  7. ↑ DIE ZEIT 28/1971 "A German Dreyfus Case"
  8. ↑ Gunnar Schnabel, Monika Tatzkow : Nazi Looted Art. Manual. Art restitution worldwide , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-019368-2 , p. 408 f.
  9. ↑ Hungarian Quarterly: László Mravik ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed October 19, 2007.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hungarianquarterly.com
  10. ↑ T. Kieselbach Collection . Accessed October 19, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Hatvany, Ferenc from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1958
Place of death Lausanne