Paul Lindpaintner
Otto Paul Lindpaintner d'Almeida (born May 22, 1883 in Munich , † April 23, 1969 in Tegernsee ) was a German art dealer.
He was the son of the officer Ludwig Christian August Lindpaintner (1849-1896) and Mathilde Maximiliane de Almeida (1807-1864), the daughter of Paolo Martins Visconde d`Almeida and Franziska Sophie von Bayrstorff, the daughter of Prince Karl Theodor Maximilian August von Bavaria ,
He was initially a cavalry officer and had extensive connections to official circles and the aristocracy. In his youth he was also active as a tennis player, so he took part in the Olympic Games in Stockholm for Germany in 1912 , but was eliminated in the first round. He was an amateur art dealer and traveled extensively in Europe. From 1928 he was a partner of Johannes Hinrichsen (1884–1971) in the art dealer Hinrichsen and Lindpaintner in Berlin, based on Bellevuestrasse. He was involved in National Socialist looted art actions in France. 1939 brokered sales from the collection of the art dealer Jean Seligmann in Paris, from 1941 to 1944 he worked for the Munich antiques dealer Fritz Pössenbacher (1906–1990) in Paris and used his connections to sell to National Socialist dignitaries. Even after the war he worked as an antique dealer in Tegernsee and Munich.
His marriage to Maria Wegmann had three children: Maria da Gloria Lindpaintner (* 1911), who married Otto Pösenbacher in 1937, Ludwig Moritz Lindpaintner (* 1914) and Victoria Lindpaintner (1918–1965)
literature
- Roswitha Juffinger, Gerhard Plasser: Salzburger Landessammlungen 1939–1955 . Salzburg 2007, pp. 114–116.
Web links
- Paul Lindpaintner at lostart.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul Lindpaintner at tennisarchives.com.
- ^ Exhibition of Gothic tapestries, Gothic sculptures, Gothic panel paintings. January 7th to March 11th 1928 . J. Hinrichsen, P. Lindpaintner, Berlin 1928.
- ^ Genealogical page .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lindpaintner, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lindpaintner d'Almeida, Otto Paul (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1969 |
| Place of death | Tegernsee |