Wilhelm Perlhöfter collection

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The Wilhelm Perlhöfter Collection in Breslau was a private art collection owned by the colonial goods wholesaler Wilhelm Perlhöfter (1878–1938) and his wife Helene, née Schäfer (* 1883).

The art collection, which "attracted visits from museum directors and art dealers often enough," included paintings, watercolors and miniature pictures by German artists, including Amand G. Zausig , Johann Heinrich König and Karl von Rhaden . Some of the pictures came from the collection of the Wroclaw painter Adelbert Woelfl . The art collection also included Wedgwood porcelain, as well as glass and ceramics from Silesia, Bohemia and Venice.

Wilhelm Perhöfter's wholesale business ( Hummerei No. 28) was Aryanized on April 2, 1938, and Wilhelm was taken to Buchenwald concentration camp immediately after the November pogrom in 1938 .

As part of the dissolution of the household, the family approached Professor Hertel (head of the Kunstkammer for Silesia) and hoped to obtain an export permit for the art collection. Helene Perlhöfter reported that “Professor Hertel [was] a glass specialist himself and [knew] our collection very well. He demanded that the museum directors should first be given the opportunity to choose suitable pieces from the collection. The museum directors also came to us and selected a number of pieces that were of interest to them. For all the rest we received [...] a certificate stating that it was not of interest for German cultural purposes ” .

The Perlhöfters were expatriated on July 16, 1941 and their fortune fell to the Reich. The family's lifts were confiscated by the Bremen Gestapo and some of the belongings and the art collection were auctioned. The auction proceeds of 9,421.92 Reichsmarks were later transferred from the Bremen-Ost finance office to the Breslau Oberfinanzkasse.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 , p. 81 (3.4.2 The large Jewish art collections in Silesia - art theft.)
  2. ↑ 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 , p. 125 (Appendix A: Tables - Table A.1: “Aryanized” business enterprises in Breslau).
  3. ↑ 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 , p. 81 (3.4.2 The large Jewish art collections in Silesia - art theft.)

literature

  • Alfred Schellenberg: Silesian private collections I: The Perlhöfter Collection , In: "Schlesische Monatshefte", 5 (1928), pp. 377–383.
  • 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