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Stuttmann, Ferdinand

    Full Name: Stuttmann, Ferdinand

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1897

    Date Died: 1968

    Home Country/ies: Germany


    Overview

    Director of the art gallery at the Landesmuseum in Hanover, 1937-1962. After the Nazi’s rise to power, Stuttmann served as an appraiser for some of the art looted from Jewish collections by various Reich groups, including the infamous Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg.Even after the war, Stuttmann purchased 100 objects from the Doebbeke Collection in 1949, a collection of Nazi-era objects confiscated Jewish collections.



    Sources

    “Raub und Restitution.” [website]. Jüdisches Museum Berlin. http://www.jmberlin.de/raub-und-restitution/en/home.php




    Citation

    "Stuttmann, Ferdinand." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/stuttmannf/.


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