Albarello
Albarello
- Artist/ Creator
- Anonymous (Spain)
- Title
- Albarello
- Year
- c. 1400-1500
- Technique
- Ceramic, polychrome decoration
- Size
- h. 29,7 cm, Ø12,8 cm
- Inventorynumber
- OCE-1936-0003
- Category
- Applied art
Museum
Conclusion
This albarello belonged to the collection of Frank and Margarethe Oppenheim, a Jewish couple.
Explanation
The Oppenheims lived in Oppenheim villa at Wannsee, which became infamous as the venue of the eponymous conference held there by the Nazis. Franz Oppenheim, the director of Agfa, died in 1929. His Jewish wife Margarethe died in September 1935. Oppenheim’s heirs put the large and high quality collection up for auction at Julius Böhler in 1936. The result was deposited in a blocked account at Deutsche Länderbank Berlin under the name Nachlass-Konto Frau Margarethe Oppenheim. It is unclear whether the heirs were ever able to access the money made in the sale.
The albarello was included in the Museum Acquisitions 1940-1948 report (Amsterdam 1999). In 2001, the museum appealed to Oppenheim’s heirs through an advert in the Jerusalem Post to contact The Hague municipality. No reaction was forthcoming.
Reconstruction origin
- ? <> 1936-05-18
- Margarethe Oppenheim (collection), Wannsee
Museum inventory; D. Brongers, M. van Houten-de Kom, Eindrapportage Herkomst & Restitutie Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 22 December 2000; see Julius Böhler cat., Munich, 18 May 1936, no. 720 (ill.)
- 1936-05-18
- Julius Böhler (auction), Munich
Museum inventory; D. Brongers, M. van Houten-de Kom, Eindrapportage Herkomst & Restitutie Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 22 December 2000; see Julius Böhler cat., Munich, 18 May 1936, no. 720 (ill.)
- 1936-05-18
- Purchased by the museum at Julius Böhler auction
- 1936-05-18 <> present day
- Gemeentemuseum Den Haag