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Spanische Taufgesellschaft (Spanish christening party)
Jose Gallegos 
Spanische Taufgesellschaft (Spanish christening party), 1907
Painting
Oil on wood
63 x 37 cm
Signed lower right: J. Gallegos 1907
 
 
Status: The object is looted. Its current location is unknown.

Provenance
  • Private collection, Berlin, Germany, until December 1939 (details available on request, see below).
  • December 1939, confiscated by the Gestapo, Berlin, at the Gustav Knauer forwarding agency, Berlin.
  • 19 May 1941, lot no. 32 in the Hans W. Lange, Berlin, sale Gemälde alter und neuerer Meister: aus verschiedenem Besitz, where offered on behalf of the Moabit-West Tax Office, Berlin, and acquired by an unknown buyer for 6,400 RM.
 
Additional Information
If you can provide any information about the provenance and/or the current location of this object, please contact the OFP Project Berlin-Brandenburg at ofp.provenienz@blha.brandenburg.de or info@lootedart.com
For information about the identity of the rightful owner until 1939, please contact the OFP Project Berlin-Brandenburg at ofp.provenienz@blha.brandenburg.de or info@lootedart.com
 
Source of Information
OFP Project Berlin-Brandenburg
Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (Brandenburg Main State Archive) (BLHA)
https://blha.brandenburg.de/index.php/the-ofp-project/
PDF (in German) and PDF (in English)
This project, funded by the German federal and state governments, is systematically researching the 42,000 persecuted victim files (Rep. 36 A Oberfinanzpräsident Berlin-Brandenburg (OFP) (II)), of the Vermögensverwertungsstelle (Asset Realisation Office), established in 1942 to liquidate victims’ assets, in order to identify seized artworks and locate them today.

Contact
OFP Project Berlin-Brandenburg
Provenance Research Team
E-Mail: ofp.provenienz@blha.brandenburg.de

Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945
E-Mail: info@lootedart.com

References
Catalogue entry for no. 32 in the Hans W. Lange, Berlin, sale Gemälde alter und neuerer Meister: aus verschiedenem Besitz, 19 May 1941, with illustration.
 




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