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SHOW NOTES

 2:45 Richard Neumann’s grandson Tom Selldorff  approached Worcester Museum to take  Neumann collection of 16 recovered works on long term loan

3:45 exhibition is meant to tell the story of the Neumann collection and efforts to reconstitute it 

4:25 Richard Neumann was a collector’s collector 

5:10 two exceptional works by Alessandro Magnasco

5:50 Madonna and Child by Neri di Bicci

7:45 Maerten van Heemskerck Donor Panels

9:20 Donor panels held in the Künsthistorisches Museum 

12:00 Neumann’s inventory 

12:50 Neumann’s lecturing on art in Cuba 

13:10 collection includes some works Neumann purchased from the Habsburg Dynasty holdings

13:45 Neumann’s primary advisors included Albertina Museum curator Otto Benesch and Italian drawings specialist Lili Fröhlich-Bume

14:25 Vienna was a city of Old Master and new artists when Neumann is collecting all while royal collections are also becoming available 

16:05 Sophie Lillie’s role in restitution of works to Neumann family 

17:40 di Bicci panel  discovered in a Sotheby’s catalog by Lillie

18:00 materials incorporated into exhibition 

18:30 verso of two paintings on pedestals 

18:40 di Bicci’s verso 

19:00 images in exhibition include French Ministry of Culture ceremony in 2013 for return of six works to Neumann family

19:30 Neumann family’s experience of looting speaks to larger narrative 

20:00 Neumann family’s efforts to locate looted works

20:30 museum’s responsibility for looted works

20:50 Worcester Museum publishes all works with incomplete Nazi provenance online and is in the process of working with one family to determine if a work in the Worcester collection is the looted work that the family is seeking

21:40 exhibition design: recreation of works in the Neumann’s Vienna home and process of locating works post-war 1950s-2021

25:20 verso of works 

26:50 forced sales / sales under duress

27:55 di Bicci’s Madonna and Child and Magnasco’s Monks at Mealtime appeared at auction 

30:00 Sotheby’s Art Loss Register search for Magnasco’s Monks at Mealtime 

31:20 1938 inventory of Neumann assets

32:20 1938 inventory includes paintings but not sculpture or works on paper

33:20 Linz Museum and works shipped to Paris

34:00 missing from Neumann inventory - van Dyck and Rubens

35:00 late 17th C / early 18th C Barogue / Rococo paintings for Linz Museum 

35:30 oil sketches

37:30 visitor reactions

40:15 exhibitions that informed Whitner in preparation of Neumann exhibition 

44:45 Sophie Lillie’s book Was Einmal War (What Once Was)

46:10 Stephanie Barron’s catalog of Degenerate art exhibition for LACM 

47:15 French government website with images of looted works 

48:30 Richard Neumann’s legacy is one of generosity and tenacity

50:00  escape from Vichy France to Cuba

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