Publication details
"In arte voluptas" : Die Kunstsammlung des Textilfabrikanten Karl Löw
| Title in English | "In arte voluptas" : Art collection of a textile entrepreneur Karl Löw |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Opuscula Historiae Artium |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://oha.dejinyumeni.phil.muni.cz/ |
| Keywords | Karl Löw; Helenín-Helenenthal; art collections; Eduard Palmer; Friedrich von Amerling; Viktor Zuckerkandl; Ludwig Lobmeyr; Karl König; Hugo von Kilényi; art auctions; k. k. Versteigerungsamt Dorotheum; Kunsthandlung C. J. Wawra; Albert Kende |
| Description | The article draws attention to a hitherto virtually unknown art collection, which, thanks to his considerable financial resources, was compiled by Karl Löw, an art-loving textile entrepreneur of Jewish origin. Over less than a decade, between 1915 and 1923, he managed to buy – at auction sales of the collections of prominent Viennese and Budapest collectors – more than 60 paintings of not just old, especially 17th century Dutch masters, but also 19th century Viennese, Munich and Düsseldorf painters. The precise records he maintained of his acquisitions now make it possible to securely identify their individual provenance. On the basis of textual and visual information of conserved auction catalogues, it is possible to get a specific idea of the artistic and thematic composition of now irreversibly scattered collections, which after 1919 had found a suitable location in the Löw’s residence in Helenín (Helenenthal) near Jihlava, for the most part in a specially commissioned gallery space. |