Leo Nardus
Leo Nardus , pseudonym of Leonardus Salomon , also Leonardus Salomonson , also Léo Nardus , (born May 5, 1868 in Utrecht , † June 12, 1955 in La Marsa , Tunisia ) was a Dutch painter and art dealer .
Life
Leonardus Salomon was the son of the antique dealer Manus Salomon and his wife Catharina Alida Berlijn. He trained as an art dealer and studied painting at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam . He traveled to Spain and Italy , Senegal and many times Egypt , Algeria and Tunisia . From 1894 to the turn of the century he worked as an art dealer in the USA and then went to Paris . In May 1913 he had an exhibition of his pictures in the Rosenberg Gallery in Paris.
Since 1904 he was married to the art dealer daughter Hélène Bourgeois (1886–1936) and had two daughters with her, Léa (1905) and Flory (1908). They lived near Paris. Leonardus Salomon changed his name in 1911. As an art dealer, he made large and profitable sales with American art collectors. This resulted in irregularities because pictures were claimed to be of poor quality, incorrect attributions or current forgeries and this was confirmed by the art historian Cornelis Hofstede de Groot .
In 1912 he took part in the fencing competitions of the Summer Olympics in Stockholm under the name Salomonson and won the bronze medal with the epee team , which also included Willem van Blijenburgh , Jetze Doorman , Arie de Jong and George van Rossem . Nardus was a chess enthusiast and a patron of the chess players Dawid Janowski and Frank Marshall , who both made it to world championship matches with Emanuel Lasker .
After the outbreak of the First World War , he lived again in Blaricum in the Netherlands from 1915 . In 1917 he auctioned his own paintings for the benefit of the Red Cross of the warring parties Belgium and France. Nardus was divorced when he finally moved with his daughters and the governess to La Marsa in Tunisia in 1921 . His art collection had not yet been divided at the time of the divorce and remained with the dealer Arnold van Buuren in the Netherlands , especially since the pictures would have been damaged in the climate of North Africa . Among the paintings were works by Rembrandt , Peter Paul Rubens , Frans Hals and Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez . In 1928 he agreed to joint ownership of the pictures with van Buuren.
After the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940 , both collections were expropriated as enemy Jewish property by Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG and liquidated by the Aryanization bank Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co. Sarphatistraat, which the German occupiers had set up specifically for this purpose . The objects, which were mainly auctioned off by the German art dealer Lempertz , were acquired by supposedly bona fide customers, especially since Lempertz withheld the provenance or did not even ascertain it and the buyers did not ask about it during the National Socialist era . Van Buuren and his wife Juliette Polak were deported by Germans and murdered on April 23, 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp .
After the war, Nardus and the heirs of van Buuren shared the saved paintings and the rights to any restitutions among themselves. Nardu's daughter Flory hired a Parisian banker to search for the pictures. In 2007 the Dutch state restituted two Renaissance portraits to the family. In 2014, the Van Ham art dealer in Cologne auctioned two Tondi from the workshops of Sandro Botticelli and Filippo Lippi , respectively , which were stolen at the time and auctioned off at Lempertz on June 2, 1943, from where they became the property of a Cologne entrepreneurial family for over 70 years arrived.
literature
- Exposition de tableaux L. Nardus . Paris: Galerie L. & P. Rosenberg fils, 15. – 30. May 1907
- L'Œuvre de Léonardus Nardus . New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, undated
- L'oeuvre de Léonardus Nardus: tableaux et dessins cédés par lui à la Croix Rouge Française et Belge . Amsterdam: [sn], 1917
- Tableaux anciens et modern ... provenant ... de la collection L. Nardus ... [Vente à Paris, 9 février 1953.] . Paris: C. et T. Catroux: F. Max-Kann, 1953
- Nardus, Leonardus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 461 .
- Léo Nardus. Un peintre hollandais en Tunisie . Espace Sophonisbe, Carthage , November to December 1997
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nardus, Leonardus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 461 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Edward Winter : Léonardus Nardus , at Chesshistory
- ↑ a b c d e f g Stefan Koldehoff : What remains are Madonnas , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 19, 2014, p. 14.
- ↑ Luuk Pijl; Dieuwertje Dekkers: Van Cuyp dead Rembrandt. De verzameling Cornelis Hofstede de Groot . Uitgeverij Snoeck, Gent 2005, p. 77; Proof of the forgeries at the American art historian Jonathan Lopez in the British art magazine Apollo , December 2007.
- ↑ Leo Nardus in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Recommendation regarding Nardus , at restitutiecommissie
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nardus, Leo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Salomon, Leonardus (maiden name); Salomonson, Leonardus; Nardus, Léo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch art dealer and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Utrecht |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1955 |
| Place of death | La Marsa , Tunisia |