Catalogue description Attachment 44 contains excerpts from Hans Reger's register for the Fuehrerbau listing...

Attachment 44 contains excerpts from Hans Reger's register for the Fuehrerbau listing the paintings acquired through Heinrich Hoffmann between 1940 and 1942. Attachment 45 is a letter from Haberstock to Hahn on the requirements of the German art market, dated July 1943. Attachment 46 contains Haberstock's offer to the Schloss Museum in Darmstadt for their Holbein Madonna and the director's negative reply, dated October 1941. Attachment 46a provides a list of items sold by Haberstock to Linz, 'the source of which has not been identified', with details of their size and date of arrival in Munich during the war. Attachment 47 provides a copy of Haberstock's business card for use in Paris inviting potential sellers to offer him 'first class pictures by old masters'. Attachment 48 provides a list of persons in France who sold or offered paintings for sale to Karl Haberstock between 1940 and 1943. Attachment 49 includes a letter from Hanssen commenting on Posse's intention to bring Haberstock to The Netherlands with him and on Haberstock's reputation, dated June 1940. Attachment 50 contains a letter from art dealer Y Perdoux to Frau Maria Dietrich regarding her purchases and enquiring about the future availability of two Cranach portraits, dated January 1941. Attachment 51 is a list of persons in France who sold works of art to Frau Maria Dietrich between 1940 and 1943, with their addresses and the dates of transactions. Attachment 52 provides the translation of an excerpt from a letter from Bormann to Frau Dietrich regarding a fake watercolour, dated May 1942. Attachment 53 contains a list of paintings acquired from the Brueschwiler Gallery, compiled from Reger's Linz register, with their size and registry numbers. Attachment 54 provides a list of more minor agents, dealers and buyers who sold paintings for the Linz Museum, listed according to their location. Attachment 55 includes a letter from Bormann to Posse transmitting information on the location of some valuable pictures in Holland as referred to him by Attaché Hewel, dated December 1940. Attachment 56 provides a list of works of art selected for the Fuehrermuseum from among those confiscated by the ERR and held at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, dated February 1941. Attachment 56a and b contain two letters addressed to Scholz from Bormann referring to Hitler's 'desire that the paintings and furniture in Paris be brought to the Fuehrerbau, Munich', dated December 1940. Attachment 57 provides a partial list of purchases made in France for the Linz Museum organised according to buyer, with details of the date of their acquisition, the price of their sale to the agent and their [usually higher] price of sale to the Fuehrermuseum. Attachment 58 contains a list of paintings acquired from The Hague through Understate Secretary Muehlmann by order of Dr Posse, dated December 1940. Attachment 59 contains the translation of two excerpts from Reger's register listing items purchased from the Almas Gallery and the dealer J Goudstikker in Amsterdam, dated December 1940, with their size and registry numbers. Attachment 59a includes an excerpt from a letter from Posse to Bormann informing him of the purchases made at an auction at Weinmueller's in Holland, dated February 1941. Attachment 60 is the translation of a letter from Posse to Bormann relating to the Koenigs and Lanz collections, dated October 1940. Attachments 61-63 contain the correspondence between Posse, Bormann, Killy and Hanssen and a telegram from Fritz Schmidt-Muenster relating to the sale of the Lanz collection, dated January-March 1941. Attachment 64 provides a partial list of the purchases made in Holland through Haberstock, Goepel and by Posse for the Fuehrermuseum, with dates and amounts of the transactions. Attachment 65 contains a list of works of art received in Munich from Prince Philipp von Hessen from Italy between 1940 and 1942, with their dimensions, registry numbers and dates of acquisition. Attachment 66 includes the draft of a letter to Dr Lammers by Posse recording Philipp von Hessen's purchases for the Fuehrer in Italy, dated March 1941. Attachment 67 includes a translation of Posse's report to Bormann on his trip to Italy, where 'thanks to the preliminary work of Prince Philipp von Hessen [...] I was able to acquire some 25 paintings for the Fuehrer', dated March 1941. Attachment 68 provides the translation of a letter from Posse to Bormann relating to the seizing of the Lobkowitz collection, dated May 1941. Attachment 69 is the translation of an excerpt from Reger's register listing seven paintings acquired through the Gestapo in Prague, dated November 1941. Attachment 70 contains correspondence between Eigruber, Hanssen, Bormann and Posse relating to the Hohenfuhrt altar, dated April-May 1941. Attachment 71 provides a partial list of the purchases made in Switzerland for the Linz Museum listed according to the agent, with the date and price of the acquisitions. Attachment 71a contains the translation of excerpts from Dr Wolffhardt's diary relating to the purchases made for the Linz Museum in Switzerland between 1942 and 1943. Attachment 71b is a letter from Lammers to Bormann relating to the purchase of the Toepfer library, dated April 1941. Attachment 72 contains a report by Posse with lists of Jewish-owned works of art confiscated in Vienna and his suggestions for their disposition, dated October 1939. Attachment 73 provides Posse's inventory of the works of art destined for the Linz Museum as of July 1940 listed according to the country of the artist and century. Attachment 74 includes a partial list of works of art purchased in Austria for the Fuehrermuseum. [Attachment 75 is cancelled and not present in the piece] Attachment 76 provides a partial list of purchases made in Germany for the Linz Museum, organised according to the dealer who procured them, with their price and registry numbers. Attachments 77-78 provide the translation of two letters from Bormann to Dr Wolffhardt relating to the latter's suggestion of creating the Linz library and Bormann's reassurance that 'duplicates of the Viennese National Library will be allotted to the Linz Library about to be set up', dated August-October 1941. Attachment 79 provides correspondence and excerpts from Dr Wolffhardt's diary including an inventory of the Linz library as of December 1943. Attachment 80 is a letter from Dr Wolffhardt to von Hummel informing him of Wolffhardt's conscription into the Wehrmacht, dated March 1945. Attachment 81 contains a memorandum by Wolffhardt to Bormann on the confiscation of art by the SD in Styria, dated October 1944. Attachment 82 is a letter from Wolffhardt to the Gestapo in Prague requesting information on the library, music and musical instruments of the Lobkowitz collection, dated August 1944.