Nazis Collecting Art: Art dealer Gustav Cramer’s wartime records, rare information about the art market during World War II.

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Nazis Collecting Art: Art dealer Gustav Cramer’s wartime records, rare information about the art market during World War II.

2012

https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/nazis-collecting-art-art-dealer-gustav-cramers-wartime-records/

The blog presents the G. Cramer Oude Kunst gallery’s wartime correspondence that exemplifies art-looting strategies in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

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Cramer, Gustav, 1881-1961

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Gustav Cramer (1881–1961) was the owner of the gallery G. Cramer Oude Kunst in The Hague in the Netherlands. He came from a family of Jewish art dealers in Kassel, Germany. After World War I, he moved to Berlin, where he worked at the renowned Van Diemen gallery, in charge of the Old Masters section, and in 1933, he opened his own gallery there. After being expelled from the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste (The Reich Chamber of Visual Arts) owing to anti-Semitic laws, he moved to the Netherlan...