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Julius Priester
Julius Priester (4 September 1870 – 6 February 1955) was an Austrian Jewish industrialist and art collector in Vienna. His properties and art collection were looted by the Nazis.
Julius Priester was born on 4 September 1870 in Olší, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He was an art collector, a banker, an industrialist and President of the Petroleumgesellschaft Galizin GmbH, also known as the Anglo-Galician Company. A collector of Old Master paintings, he displayed them in his office and in his home in Vienna in the 1920s.
He died on 6 February 1955 in Acapulco, Mexico.
Priester's art collection included El Greco, Cranach, Rubens, Van Dyke and many other important artists.
Austria joined Nazi Germany in the Anschluss of 1938. Persecution of Jews began immediately. Priester fled to Mexico with Camilla Priester (née Robicek). Everything in his apartment was packed up and stored with Speditionsfirma Max Föhr.
On 11 May 1939 the contents of the apartment were valued and inventoried under the supervision of the Gestapo and the Customs Investigation Office, in the presence of civil servants of the Zentralstelle für Denkmalschutz (Austrian Heritage Office) and three appraisers from Vienna's Dorotheum auction house, one of them named Bernhard Wittke who was also an SS officer and agent of the Gestapo.... On 11 February 1944 the Priester collection was forcibly removed in six trucks by the Gestapo
In February 1944, Mr. Priester's possessions including paintings were seized by the Gestapo from Max Föhr's depot in Vienna.The Austrian Nazi looting organization, the Vugesta, the "Verwertungsstelle für jüdisches Umzugsgut der Gestapo", is thought to have been involved in the seizure of Priester's collection.
As soon as World War II ended, in 1945, Priester started trying to recover his stolen art collection. The process was exceedingly slow and difficult. On 20 May 1947 Max Föhr, through Mr. Priester's solicitor Dr. Erich Goglia, filed a report with the Austrian authorities which included a list of 51 paintings still in Priester's possession as of 4 May 1937.
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Julius Priester
Julius Priester (4 September 1870 – 6 February 1955) was an Austrian Jewish industrialist and art collector in Vienna. His properties and art collection were looted by the Nazis.
Julius Priester was born on 4 September 1870 in Olší, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He was an art collector, a banker, an industrialist and President of the Petroleumgesellschaft Galizin GmbH, also known as the Anglo-Galician Company. A collector of Old Master paintings, he displayed them in his office and in his home in Vienna in the 1920s.
He died on 6 February 1955 in Acapulco, Mexico.
Priester's art collection included El Greco, Cranach, Rubens, Van Dyke and many other important artists.
Austria joined Nazi Germany in the Anschluss of 1938. Persecution of Jews began immediately. Priester fled to Mexico with Camilla Priester (née Robicek). Everything in his apartment was packed up and stored with Speditionsfirma Max Föhr.
On 11 May 1939 the contents of the apartment were valued and inventoried under the supervision of the Gestapo and the Customs Investigation Office, in the presence of civil servants of the Zentralstelle für Denkmalschutz (Austrian Heritage Office) and three appraisers from Vienna's Dorotheum auction house, one of them named Bernhard Wittke who was also an SS officer and agent of the Gestapo.... On 11 February 1944 the Priester collection was forcibly removed in six trucks by the Gestapo
In February 1944, Mr. Priester's possessions including paintings were seized by the Gestapo from Max Föhr's depot in Vienna.The Austrian Nazi looting organization, the Vugesta, the "Verwertungsstelle für jüdisches Umzugsgut der Gestapo", is thought to have been involved in the seizure of Priester's collection.
As soon as World War II ended, in 1945, Priester started trying to recover his stolen art collection. The process was exceedingly slow and difficult. On 20 May 1947 Max Föhr, through Mr. Priester's solicitor Dr. Erich Goglia, filed a report with the Austrian authorities which included a list of 51 paintings still in Priester's possession as of 4 May 1937.