Diskussion / Vortrag: Die "Arisierung" der Galerie Hugo Helbing: Ein Provenienzforschungsprojekt am Lenbachhaus

In 1944, the Lenbachhaus acquired five works on paper from Jakob Scheidwimmer, the owner of the gallery on Wagmüllerstraße, which had previously operated as Galerie Hugo Helbing. Hugo Helbing and his nationally and internationally successful art dealership were systematically destroyed after 1933 through reprisals, boycott and exclusion. Hugo Helbing and his partners were persecuted, expelled and murdered by the Nazi regime as Jews. The takeover of the firm by Jakob Scheidwimmer is a particularly grave and complex case of so-called "Arisierung". Provenance researcher Anja Akikazu Matsuda will not only explain the joint project to research the five works on paper in her lecture, but also give a deeper insight into the life and work of art dealer and auctioneer Hugo Helbing.