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Portrait Sarah Samson (1776-1856)
Lost Art-ID
601988
Artist / Creator
Title
Portrait Sarah Samson (1776-1856)
Dating
1856 (vor)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil [?] / painted
Description
Sarah Samson (1776 Wolfenbüttel-06.04.1856 Berlin), fourth child of Philipp Samson (02.03.1743-04.12.1805) and Hanna née Gumpel (1743-06.03.1808). She married her first cousin Isaac Hertz Samson (13.01.1778-05.04.1849); possibly identical with Sarah Samson, née Cohn, oil painting
Provenance
Administration of Samson's Legacy Fund (Samson School Wolfenbüttel, dissolved 1928), Helene Lilien (managing member), ...-26.01.1929; permanent loan in the Vaterländisches Museum, Braunschweig (since 1938 Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum), 26.01.1929-06.04. 1939; returned to Helene Lilien (1880-1971, née Magnus), 06.04.1939-...; stored in a lift at the Bohne company, Bremen before leaving for England, 1939; confiscation of the lift by the Gestapo Bremen, 1941; auction of the contents of the lift on behalf of the Nazi authorities; whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
[Archiv des Braunschweigischen Landesmuseums, Dauerleihvertrag zwischen Karl Steinacker, Vaterländisches Museum, Braunschweig, und Helene Lilien, Administration des Samsonschen Legatenfonds, v. 26.01.1929; Archiv des Braunschweigischen Landesmuseums, Bescheinigung v. 06.04.1939, unterzeichnet von Helene Lilien]; Records Concerning the Central Collecting Points ("Ardelia Hall Collection"): Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point, 1945-1952, Korrespondenz von Helene Lilien bezgl. ihrer Anfrage, 22.08.1951 - Externer Link
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Peters, Tom Frank, Prof. Dr.
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