Adolphe Schloss

Adolphe Schloss (10 August 1842 – 31 December 1910) was a German-French art collector.

Adolphe Schloss
Born10 August 1842
Furth, Lower Bavaria
Died31 December 1910
Paris
NationalityFrance

Life

Schloss was born to a Jewish family[1] in Furth, Lower Bavaria. He married Mathilde Lucie Haas and together they collected 333 works of art from the Northern and Southern Netherlands that became notable as the Ad. Schloss collection between 1900 and World War II. They held a gallery at Salon Adolphe Schloss, residence 38, avenue Henri Martin, Paris. After Adolphe's death there, his collection became the property of his wife Lucie, who died in 1938 and the collection was left to their children Marguerite, Henry, Juliette and Lucien. They moved the collection to Château de Chambon, Laguenne for safekeeping during the war, where it was looted by the Vichy government in 1943. Of the 333 objects, only 230 were actually offered to Hitler's Führer museum and 49 were saved for France and given to the Louvre. After the war all were lost, but gradually 148 objects could be rediscovered.

References
  1. New York Daily News: "DEALER BLASTS FRENCH IN ART PLUNDER CASE" by Mike Claffey September 26, 1999
  • French government website
  • English summary about the collection
  • Soixante-dix tableaux de la collection de feu M. Adolphe Schloss : [mis en vente] à Paris, by Adolphe Schloss, Galerie Charpentier, 25 mai 1949.


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