Carl Sachs Collection

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The art collection of the Jewish entrepreneur Carl Sachs (* 1868 in Jauer / Jawor ; † 1943 in Basel ), who lived with his wife Margarethe in a villa in what was then Kleinburgstrasse in Breslau , comprised numerous paintings, watercolors and graphics before his death. In 1939 he was able to emigrate to Switzerland with his wife.

Works by French and German artists were represented. The French artists included Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , Gustave Courbet , Eugène Delacroix , Claude Monet , Camille Pissarro , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley , while among the German artists in the collection, in addition to painters from Wroclaw, above all Wilhelm Leibl , Wilhelm Trübner , Fritz von Uhde and the main representatives of German impressionism Lovis Corinth , Max Slevogt and Max Liebermann were represented. There were also pictures of Hans Purrmann , who was close to Matisse. His collection also contained Dutch paintings from the 17th century, such as a painting by David Teniers the Elder. J.

Sachs also owned a collection of prints and drawings, including works by James McNeill Whistler , Edvard Munch , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Francisco de Goya , Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , Pablo Picasso and Honoré Daumier . His collection also includes sculptures by German and French artists, including works by Georg Kolbe and Aristide Maillol .

  • Auguste Renoir: Portrait of Countess Poutrales , today Museu de Arte de São Paulo

  • Claude Monet: Portrait of Victor Jacquemont with a parasol , today Kunsthaus Zürich

literature

  • Arthur Lindner: The Carl Sachs painting collection . In: Kunstchronik June 9, 1916, pp. 362–364
  • Margot Rieß: Breslau Art Letter: The Pictures of the Sachs Collection . In: Kunstwanderer 3 (1921/1922), pp. 477–478
  • Karl Scheffler: Breslau Art Life . In: Kunst und Künstler Vol. 21 (1923), p. 111ff.
  • The Carl Sachs Collection. Graphics of the XIX. Century. Auctioned by CG Boerner, Leipzig, and Paul Cassirer . Berlin / Leipzig 1931
  • Erich Wiese : Carl Sachs Foundation for the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, . In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 1 (1932), pp. 149–152.
  • Ewa Frąckowiak: Ryciny autorskie z drugiej połowy XIX wieku i początków XX wieku z kolekcji Carla Sachsa . In: Z dziejów rysunku i grafiki na Śląsku oraz w kolekcjach i zbiorach ze Śląskiem związanych . red. Bogusław Czechowicz, Arkadiusz Dobrzyniecki, Izabela Żak, Wrocław 1999, pp. 203-214
  • Monika Tatzkow, Hans Joachim Hinz: Citizens, victims and historical justice. The fate of Jewish art collectors in Breslau , In: Osteuropa 56 (2006), pp. 155–171
  • Ramona Bräu : "Aryanization" in Breslau - The "de-Judaization" of a German city and its discovery in the Polish memory discourse . VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-5958-7 , pp. 77ff. (3.4.2 The large Jewish art collections in Silesia - art theft.)
  • Annerose Klammt, Marius Winzeler: "Modern German art had to be brought to bear" - On the acquisition of works of art from Jewish property for the art collections in Görlitz , In: Contributions from public institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany to the handling of cultural goods from former Jewish property , ed. by Ulf Häder, Magdeburg 2001, pp. 119–141
  • Marius Winzeler: Jewish collectors and patrons in Breslau - from donation to the "exploitation" of their art possessions , In: Collecting. Pens. Promote. Jewish patrons in German society , red. Andrea Baresel-Brand, Peter Müller, Magdeburg 2006, pp. 131–150

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