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November 19,
2020, updated 24-04-2022 The strange business of selling fakes, forgeries and other concoctions attributed to Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and other Nazi criminals. Introduction
The first official exhibition of "Hitlers"
In the Wurttemberg Libray in Stuttgart the
"Hitlers" from the Hoffmann portfolio (1935) are
exhibited, six watercolors and a drawing. However,
only reproductions were shown, not the original
works.
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Reinhold Hanisch
arrested When the police searches Hanisch' room water color paints, drawing paper and a large collection of postcards of Viennese citysights and a book with such depictions are found. As Hanisch was specialized in makings gold paintings on glass, and Hitler made watercolor copies of similar postcards, the material in Hanisch'room strongly suggests that Hanisch did indeed forge Hitlers – yet in the room no forged Hitlers were found. Also the police finds evidence that Hanisch is involved in forging works of the artists Wilhelm Leibl and Adolph Menzel too. These forgeries were commissioned by a man named Jacques Weiss – who was at the time of Hanisch' arrest imprisoned in Belgium, for fraud and bribery. During the investigation into this case two witnesses were heard, who knew exactly what kind of works Hitler had made in his Vienna period: only Viennese cityscapes. These were Jakob Altenberg, Hitler's main client in 1910-1913 and Karl Leidenroth, an “academic” artist, who had lived in the Männerheim in Vienna in the same time as Hitler did. According to Brigitte Hamann in Hitler's Vienna (1996) Leidenroth had been an accomplice of Hanisch – but there's no evidence at all for this allegation. Hanisch was however never convicted. He
died in a Viennese prison cell in February 1937,
probably of natural causes. His accomplice Jacques
Weiss was, as far as is known, never caught by the
Austrian authorities. After he finished his prison
time in Belgium, he managed to escape via
Czechoslovakia to Denmark, What happened to him is
unknown. Oberpolizeirat Dr. Spring. Bundes Polizeidirektion Wien, Sicherheitsbureau, s.B. 17105/36, November-December 1936. NSDAP Hauptarchiv NS 26/2599; Bundesarchiv Berlin. To top of page. Exchange rates / value of money 03-01-1936 1 UK pound = 4,92 US dollar. 1 US dollar = 0,20 UK pound (in decimals) 1 UK pound = 74,51 French francs 1 French franc = 0,013 French francs 1 UK pound = 29,25 Belgian francs 1 Belgian franc = 0,034 UK pound 1 UK pound = 61,25 Italian lire 1 Italian lire = 0,016 UK pound 1 UK pound = 7,25 NL guilder 1 NL guilder = 0,13 UK pound 1 UK pound = 12,25 Reichsmark 1 Reichsmark = 0,08 UK pound 1 UK pound = 22,40 Danish krone 1 Danish kron = 0,04 UK pound 1 UK pound = 19,90 Norwegian krone 1 Norwegian kron =0,05 UK pound 1 UK pound = 19,39 Swedish krone 1 Swedish kron = 0,05 UK pound 1 UK pound = 15,16 Swiss francs 1 Swiss franc =0,065 UK pound 1 UK pound = 35,94 Spanish pesetas 1 Sp. peseta = 0,027 UK pound (RBD) Wisselkoersen. Het Vaderland, 's-Gravenhage, 03-01-1936. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010016364:mpeg21:a0312 CPI Inflation Calculator – for US dollars.This inflation calculator uses official records published by the U.S. Department of Labor. https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/ Convertisseur franc-euro. Pouvoir d'achat
de l'euro et du franc. Le
convertisseur franc-euro mesure l'érosion
monétaire due à l'inflation. Value of the Guilder/Euro. International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/calculate.php To top of page. © Compilation Bart FM Droog, 2020. |
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