Adolphe Schloss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Adolphe Schloss

French art collector

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1842

Place of Birth: Furth, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 31-Dec-1910

Profession: art collector

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Adolphe Schloss

  • Adolphe Schloss (10 August 1842 – 31 December 1910) was a French art collector. Schloss was born to a Jewish family 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 a painting collection between World War I 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 Chambon 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 the Hitler 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.

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