Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Bernhard Altmann" in English language version.
Petitioner lost his textile plant and the realty in Vienna in 1938 when it was confiscated under Nazi decree during the Anschluss. In 1945, the plant was looted at various times and machinery and merchandise was taken. In 1947, petitioner instituted legal proceedings before the Austrian Restitution Commission to have title to the plant restored.
He entered the Viennese textile business in 1915. In 1919 he established his first company, which expanded in Vienna itself as well as in other locations, among them Moscow, Paris and Liverpool. The company had grown to more than 1000 employees by the time it was "Aryanized" in 1938. Bernhard Altmann, who fled to Liverpool via Paris in 1938, supported several family members in escaping Vienna in 1938, among them his wife Nelly as well as his brothers Max with his wife and child, his brother Julius and his brother Fritz with his wife Maria.
The Strasbourg Canaletto appears in the catalogue of the Nazi sale of Altmann's entire estate by Dorotheum, the Viennese auction house, on 17-22 June and 19-21 July, 1938. The statement in the catalogue, that the June sale was to take place at Altmann's residence at "Kopfgasse 1", Vienna, confirmed the painting's provenance to the museum. Three other Canaletto paintings taken from Bernhard Altmann, which were included in the sale, are still missing. The Strasbourg Canaletto is one of only nine works painted by the artist on copper.
Sale: Wawra, Vienna, 7th & 8th November 1922, lot 160 Bernhard Altmann, Vienna (purchased at the above sale)
Seized from the above by the Gestapo in June 1938
Sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, 17th June 1938, lot 379 Gustav Ucicky, Vienna (the artist's son; purchased at the above sale) Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna (bequest from the above in 1961)
Restituted to the heirs of Bernhard Altmann in 2004
He entered the Viennese textile business in 1915. In 1919 he established his first company, which expanded in Vienna itself as well as in other locations, among them Moscow, Paris and Liverpool. The company had grown to more than 1000 employees by the time it was "Aryanized" in 1938. Bernhard Altmann, who fled to Liverpool via Paris in 1938, supported several family members in escaping Vienna in 1938, among them his wife Nelly as well as his brothers Max with his wife and child, his brother Julius and his brother Fritz with his wife Maria.
Sale: Wawra, Vienna, 7th & 8th November 1922, lot 160 Bernhard Altmann, Vienna (purchased at the above sale)
Seized from the above by the Gestapo in June 1938
Sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, 17th June 1938, lot 379 Gustav Ucicky, Vienna (the artist's son; purchased at the above sale) Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna (bequest from the above in 1961)
Restituted to the heirs of Bernhard Altmann in 2004
