The Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main opens its exhibition The Collection of Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild on 27 January 2023. It is the first time the Frankfurt museum has dedicated an exhibition to this private collector and patron and his once famous art collection. The history of the collection reflects the life of the collector, who was persecuted as a Jew under National Socialism. More details: Museum Angewandte Kunst opens exhibition The Collection of Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild …
Lynn Rother, Senior Provenance Specialist at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, describes the transaction in which the State of Prussia bought more than 4,000 artworks from the Dresdner Bank for the Berlin museums for the huge sum of 7.5 million Reichsmarks on August 15, 1935. The transaction is explored here for the first time from an art historical and banking perspective. More details: Lynn Rother: Kunst durch Kredit. Die Berliner Museen und ihre Erwerbungen von der Dresdner Bank 1935 …