Alphonse Kann

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Photographic portrait of Peter Pitt-Millward, at Alphonse Kann's home, Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Alphonse Kann (14 March 1870

Jewish heritage. He was a childhood playmate and adult friend of the writer Marcel Proust, who incorporated several of Kann's features into the character Charles Swann (in Swann in Love).[2]

Art collector

The name Kann, written with double "nn", was said in Paris to be "le plus chic du chic".

Rubens and Tintoretto
) in order to concentrate on the acquisition of 19th-century and modern art, which he collected vigorously over the following decade.

Nazi theft

Kann left France for England in 1938 without making an inventory of his eclectic art collection, which was kept in a

Minneapolis Institute of Arts after an eleven-year investigation.[8][9]

In the 1990s, eight antique manuscripts once owned by Kann turned up in the vaults of

Jeu de Paume.[11] The discovery of the missing manuscripts prompted a lawsuit by Kann's heirs against Wildenstein & Company.[4][12]

References

  1. ^ "Alphonse Kann at Ancestry.com". Ancestry.com. Archived from the original on February 4, 2009. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
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  3. ^ Riding, Alan (1996-03-26). "Göring, Rembrandt and the Little Black Book". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
  4. ^ a b Riding, Alan (1997-09-03). "Collector's Family Tries to Illuminate the Past of Manuscripts in France". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
  5. ^ "Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume".
  6. ^ "Sammlung Alphonse Kann | Proveana". www.proveana.de. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  7. ^ "Museum returns Leger painting found to be Nazi loot". Auction Central News. Associated Press. 2008-11-01. Retrieved 2008-12-14. [dead link]
  8. ^ Combs, Marianne (2008-10-30). "MIA returns painting stolen by Nazis". Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
  9. ^ "Museum returns painting found to be Nazi loot". NBC News. 31 October 2008. Retrieved 2023-02-10. Investigators established that after Kann fled Paris, the Nazis confiscated the bulk of his collection, a trove so extensive that the Nazis' inventory of it ran to 60 typed pages. A Paris art dealer, Galerie Leiris, bought the Leger at an auction in 1942 and later sold it to Buchholz Gallery
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  12. ^ "Warin v Wildenstein & Co., Inc". Justia Law. Archived from the original on 2021-06-16. Retrieved 2021-06-16. Plaintiffs Frances Warin, individually and En Memoire D'Alphonse Kann, an unincorporated association of plaintiff Warin's relatives, as successors-in-interest to Alphonse Kann, seek to recover from the defendants eight rare illuminated manuscripts which plaintiffs claim were stolen by the Nazis from Mr. Kann's residence at 7 rue des B cherons in Saint Germaine-en-Laye, a small town on the outskirts of Paris, in October 1940, and which plaintiffs claim are now wrongfully in the possession of the defendants Wildenstein & Co., Inc., a New York corporation, Daniel Wildenstein, Alec Wildenstein and Guy Wildenstein.

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