Acquisitions from the antiquarian art dealer Ben Weinreb Ltd in London
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The Bauhaus-Archiv acquired around 15% of the objects catalogued in its collection during the 1960s on the international art market. In 1964, 1965 and 1967 alone, more than 140 objects were purchased from the antiquarian art dealer Ben Weinreb in London. These rare bookbindings, prints, drawings and works from the preliminary course of the Bauhaus were largely created by artists of Jewish origin.
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Read the case history as a PDF.
In Part 2 of the video series “Behind the Object”, our provenance researcher Corinna Alexandra Rader investigates the possibility that these works may have been confiscated during the Nazi period: