Investigation into the provenance of museum collections in connection with the theft, confiscation and sale of objects under duress between 1933 and 1945.

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Anonymous, Stand for an altar cross

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Standaard voor een altaarkruis

Stand for an altar cross

Artist/ Creator
Anonymous, Maasland
Title
Stand for an altar cross
Year
c. 1170
Technique
Bronze
Size
h 16,4 cm × l 14,1 cm × b 13 cm
Inventorynumber
BK-16920
Category
Applied art

Museum

Rijksmuseum

Conclusion

This stand belonged to Maximilian Benedikt Heyum Freiherr von Goldschmidt-Rothschild.

Explanation

De provenance of this object is unclear, because it is unknown how this object left the possession of the jewish Maximilian Benedikt Hayum Freiherr von Goldschmidt, between 1935 and 1936, while he was still in Germany. A detailed explanation on the objects from the Von Goldschmidt-Rothschild family is to be found in the Provenance Research Report, Collection Fritz Mannheimer, at the museum page.

Reconstruction origin

? <> 1935 <> ?
Maximilian Benedikt Heyum Freiherr von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843-1940) (collection), Frankfurt am Main

Von Falke/Meyer 1935, p. 10, image 50

? <> 1936 <> 1940
Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939) (collection), Amsterdam and Paris

Von Falke 1936, p. 112, no. B.8

1940
Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz

Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22

After May 1945 <> 1950
Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, Amsterdam

National Archives, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548

1950 <> 1952
Dienst voor 's Rijks Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen (government department for distributing art), The Hague

Museum Inventory

1952 <> 1960
Transfer to museum from Dienst voor 's Rijks Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen (government department for distributing art), The Hague

Museum Inventory

1960 <> present day
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam