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Registry Number: CCG176/1132. Valuable articles and works of art on loan to senior...

Catalogue reference: FO 1067/149

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FO 1067/149

Date

1952

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Registry Number: CCG176/1132. <p>Valuable articles and works of art on loan to senior officials: application of Zonal Executive Instruction [ZEI] No 92.</p> <p>Correspondence from the director of maintenance at the UK High Commission in Germany, Wahnerheide [Rhineland] relating to the application of Zonal Executive Instruction [ZEI] No 92 including details of valuable articles and works of art on loan to senior officials as listed in the five appendices, dated October 1952. Promulgated on 23 November 1949, the ZEI No 92 regulated the conditions regarding the retention of chattels and effects other than those forming part of the normal furnishing of buildings under requisition. <p>The objects in question were on loan to four different persons: the Land Commissioner at his residence, Rhine Lodge, Mr V A Goddard, Manpower Adviser to the UK High Commissioner, at his residence in Cologne-Marienburg, the UK High Commissioner at Schloss Roettgen and the Commander-in-Chief of the Rhine Army. <p>The four pictures hung in the Land Commissioner's residence were 'Bauernhof' by Cte Roqueplan, found in a sunken barge at Oberhausen, 'Antwerpen', unknown, from the Himmler collection and two 'Mountain landscapes', by unknown French artists, around 1650. Mr Goddard instead had borrowed one oil painting entitled 'Unter den Linden' [not specified], supplied from the bulk store in Berlin. The property on loan to the UK High Commissioner included thirteen pieces of faience lent by the Kunstsammlung of the city of Duesseldorf, and two Dutch jars in blue and white china, on loan from Schloss Wevelsburg, Paderborn, two paintings from the Krupp private estate: 'River mouth' by van Goyan [Goyen] and 'River and boats' by S Ruyadael [as written, most probably Ruysdael] [later removed from Schloss Roettgen], and nine more pictures lent by the city of Hamburg: 'Old man' by Piazzetta, 'Piazza S Marco' by the Guardi school, 'Pilgrims in the mountains' by L van Valkenborch, 'Piazzetta' by the Canaletto school, 'Fortune telling' by the P Longhi [?] school, 'Dressing room scene' and 'Woman with mask and tricorne' by A Loughi, 'Portrait of a girl' by D Santvoort, 'Portrait of a woman' by C van Coulen. One more painting was present in two of the copies of this list: 'Rest on the flight' by Herri met des Bles. Further objects came from the property of Himmler and the SS and included four carpets and a few pieces of furniture. According to the report, the two Krupp pictures on loan at the residence of the Army Commander in Bad Oeynhausen were: 'Landscape with herd' by N Berchem and 'River landscape' by P Ruyadael [as written, most probably S Ruysdael, see above], size 70 x 108 [not specified]. Further correspondence by the Finance Branch dated March 1952 regarding an enquiry about five oil paintings missing from the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, and, according to the MFA and A records at the time, hanging in the residence of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine. These were: 'Still life: sunflowers' by A Luttheroth, 'Winterlandscape' and 'Rheinland Landscape' by Dom G Werdigh, 'Landscape with travellers' by Art des Jan Brueghel and 'Blue and white flowers' by W Wulff. <p>Earlier correspondence from the Maintenance branch to the Senior Finance Officer requesting details and lists of the property on loan to the UK High Commissioner, the Deputy UK High Commissioner, the Land Commissioner and the principal advisers to the UK High Commissioner, dated September 1952. <p>Copy of the Zonal Executive Instruction No 92 dated 23 November 1949 by the Zonal Offices of the Control Commission for Germany regarding both former Reich and state property as well as private property, defined as 'property of considerable value, intrinsically, artistically or by reason of its antiquity' [including all property listed by the MFA and A]. According to this regulation, 'senior officials nominated by the UK High Commissioner may retain sufficient property to ensure that the appointments of their houses are in keeping with their position'. These objects would be listed separately by Property Control and 'moved from place to place according to the needs of the official concerned'.</p>
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This document forms part of the Looted Art Collection; records selection and descriptions reproduced by the kind permission of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe.

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Art, architecture and design
Canals and river transport
International
Labour
Army
Asia
Europe and Russia
Children
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