Catalogue description Attachments 18 includes a letter from Goering to Fischboeck related to his purchase of...

Attachments 18 includes a letter from Goering to Fischboeck related to his purchase of the Goudstikker pictures and their 'Jewish or enemy part-ownership', dated March 1942, and including an earlier letter from Goudstikker to Hofer referring to a similar case and enclosed as Attachment 18a, dated November 1940. Attachments 18b-d provide three lists identifying 13 paintings held in partnership by the Goudstikker firm with foreign firms and located in Berlin, the names of the co-owners of these 13 paintings and a list of names of 'Jewish or enemy interests in pictures purchased from H J Goudstikker N V, Amsterdam' for the Goering collection, dated November 1940. Attachment 19 includes a letter [in German with English translation] from Fischboeck to Goering stating that 'I have made inquiries from the Goudstikker firm' and 'see no objection to paying for the enemy interests in the pictures', dated April 1942. Attachments 20 a and b include a receipt by von Pannwitz for Fl 390,000 received from Hofer and a list of six paintings sold by von Pannwitz to Goering, dated October 1940. Attachment 21 provides a list of eight pictures - five portraits, two wings of an altarpiece and the 'Betrothal of the Virgin' by the Master of St Gudule - sold by Tietje to Goering through Hofer, dated March 1941. Attachments 22 consists of a list of 22 paintings sold by the Goudstikker art dealership to Goering after the initial contract 'which came in special trains from Amsterdam on 22 September 1940 and which are now located in Kurfuerst'. Attachment 23 lists three art objects 'which may yet come from Amsterdam', dated September 1940. Attachment 24 is a list of Goudstikker carpets from Hofer, dated January 1941. Attachment 25 contains a receipt for the painting 'Portrait of a man' by B Strozzi, sold by the Goudstikker firm to Goering, dated April 1941. Attachments 26-27 provide Goudstikker receipts for a 'Small landscape' by Jan van Goyen and a set of silver, dated September-October 1940. Attachments 28-29 include two receipts listing 22 paintings and three objets d'art bought from Goudstikker by Gritzbach for Goering after the initial contract, dated October-November 1940. Attachments 30-31 consist of two receipts for David Teniers's 'Rocky landscape' and Michiel Jansz van Miereveldt's 'Portrait of a man and of a woman' bought by Goering and delivered from the house 'Groot Haesebroeck, Wassenaer', dated March 1941. Attachment 32 is a letter [in German with English translation] from Goering to Fischboeck regarding the payments to the Feind Vermoegen [Enemy Property Control] office for pictures held by Hoogendijk in partnership with a English firm, dated November 1940. Attachment 33 includes notes by Hofer on his conversation with Katz in Amsterdam relating to the acquisition of A van Dyck's 'Family scene', dated September 1941. Attachment 34 consists of a receipt of 200,000 RM signed by the Amsterdam lawyer Kempenaar for van Dyck's painting acquired from Katz, dated July 1943. Attachment 35 is a telegram from Schulthess to Hofer stating that the 'final settlement re family picture feasible only Basel else picture must be returned', dated March 1944. Attachment 36 is a letter [in German with English translation] from Hofer to Katz stating that 'the local Swiss Embassy recently rejected definitely my application for a visa into Switzerland which has been on file for about one year. I therefore proceed to settle by letter the van Dyck affair which we discussed during my last stay in Basel in February 1943' and referring to the payments for Katz's paintings made by Hofer through Kempenaar, dated August 1944. Attachment 37 includes a reply [in German with English translation] to Hofer from the Zurich lawyer Wiedferkehr on behalf of Katz notifying him 'that he does not agree in any way with the contents of your letter. What you have written does not correspond with the true situation', dated September 1944. Attachment 38 is a receipt for 877,800 RM 'in invasion marks' received by the Amsterdamsche Bank N V from Hofer to the credit of Mr H E ten Cate, Ahnel, dated September 1940. Attachment 39 includes a list [in German with English translation] compiled by Hofer of eight paintings purchased from van Gelder on behalf of Goering for the total price of 220,000 RM, dated May 1941. Attachment 40 consists of the account made by Emil Renders of his sale to Goering, dated June 1945. Attachment 41 provides the text [in German with English translation] of the order by the Devisenschutzkommando for the freezing of the Renders collection, dated September 1940. Attachment 42 is a letter [in German with English translation] from Goering to Renders referring to the sale of his collection, dated March 1941.