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{{Infobox politician|titul před=[[Doktor práv|JUDr.]]|name=Philipp Gomperz|obrázek=|popisek=Philipp Gomperz|úřad=Poslanec [[Moravský zemský sněm|Moravského zemského sněmu]]|od=[[1896]]|do=[[1918]]|úřad2=Člen [[Panská sněmovna|Panské sněmovny]]|od2=???|do2=[[1918]]|strana=[[Strana ústavověrného velkostatku|Str. ústavověr. velkostatku]]|birth_date={{birth date|1860|4|4}}|birth_place=[[Brno]]<br />{{flag|Austrian Empire}}|death_date={{death date and age|1948|12|3|1860|4|4}}|death_place=[[Montreux]]<br />{{flag|Switzerland}}|choť=|rodiče=[[Max Gomperz|Max Israel Gomperz]]<br />[[Louisa Gomperzová]]|děti=|příbuzní=[[Julius Gomperz]] (strýc)<br />[[Theodor Gomperz]] (strýc)<br />[[Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim]] (teta)|alma mater=[[Vídeňská univerzita]]|profese=|podpis=|ocenění=[[Řád Františka Josefa]]|commons=}}Philipp Gomperz, also known as Philipp von Gomperz (4 April 1860 Brno - 4 December 1948 Montreux) was an Austrian businessman and politician of German nationality from Moravia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HCPO Gallery: Dr. Philip von Gomperz - biography |url=https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/holocaust_claims/gallery/gomperz_dr_bio |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=Department of Financial Services |language=en |quote=Dr. Philip Gomperz, was born on April 4, 1860 in Vienna to the wealthy industrialist and banker Max von Gomperz, who originally came from Brünn. After World War I, Dr. Gomperz took on Czechoslovakian citizenship. Although he still owned significant properties in Vienna, his economic interests were concentrated in Bohemia and Moravia}}</ref> |
{{Infobox politician|titul před=[[Doktor práv|JUDr.]]|name=Philipp Gomperz|obrázek=|popisek=Philipp Gomperz|úřad=Poslanec [[Moravský zemský sněm|Moravského zemského sněmu]]|od=[[1896]]|do=[[1918]]|úřad2=Člen [[Panská sněmovna|Panské sněmovny]]|od2=???|do2=[[1918]]|strana=[[Strana ústavověrného velkostatku|Str. ústavověr. velkostatku]]|birth_date={{birth date|1860|4|4}}|birth_place=[[Brno]]<br />{{flag|Austrian Empire}}|death_date={{death date and age|1948|12|3|1860|4|4}}|death_place=[[Montreux]]<br />{{flag|Switzerland}}|choť=|rodiče=[[Max Gomperz|Max Israel Gomperz]]<br />[[Louisa Gomperzová]]|děti=|příbuzní=[[Julius Gomperz]] (strýc)<br />[[Theodor Gomperz]] (strýc)<br />[[Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim]] (teta)|alma mater=[[Vídeňská univerzita]]|profese=|podpis=|ocenění=[[Řád Františka Josefa]]|commons=}}Philipp Gomperz, also known as Philipp von Gomperz (4 April 1860 Brno - 4 December 1948 Montreux) was an Austrian businessman and politician of German nationality from Moravia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HCPO Gallery: Dr. Philip von Gomperz - biography |url=https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/holocaust_claims/gallery/gomperz_dr_bio |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=Department of Financial Services |language=en |quote=Dr. Philip Gomperz, was born on April 4, 1860 in Vienna to the wealthy industrialist and banker Max von Gomperz, who originally came from Brünn. After World War I, Dr. Gomperz took on Czechoslovakian citizenship. Although he still owned significant properties in Vienna, his economic interests were concentrated in Bohemia and Moravia}}</ref> |
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== Nazi persecution after Anschluss in 1938 == |
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After the Anschluss Gomperz was persecuted by the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage. His property was seized, including his art collection which was transfered by the Gestapo to Gallery Herzig (also known as Galerie St. Lukas).<ref>{{Cite web |title=HCPO Gallery: Dr. Philip von Gomperz - biography |url=https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/holocaust_claims/gallery/gomperz_dr_bio |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=Department of Financial Services |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Gallery |url=https://sanctlucas.com/thegallery |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=Galerie Sanct Lucas |language=en-GB}}</ref> He and his sisters fled to Switzerland via Prague.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HCPO Gallery: Dr. Philip von Gomperz - biography |url=https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/holocaust_claims/gallery/gomperz_dr_bio |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=Department of Financial Services |language=en}}</ref> |
After the Anschluss Gomperz was persecuted by the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage. His property was seized, including his art collection which was transfered by the Gestapo to Gallery Herzig (also known as Galerie St. Lukas).<ref>{{Cite web |title=HCPO Gallery: Dr. Philip von Gomperz - biography |url=https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/holocaust_claims/gallery/gomperz_dr_bio |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=Department of Financial Services |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Gallery |url=https://sanctlucas.com/thegallery |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=Galerie Sanct Lucas |language=en-GB}}</ref> He and his sisters fled to Switzerland via Prague.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HCPO Gallery: Dr. Philip von Gomperz - biography |url=https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/holocaust_claims/gallery/gomperz_dr_bio |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=Department of Financial Services |language=en}}</ref> |
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After the war, he asked for his property to be returned, but it was confiscated again, now under decrees of Czech [[Edvard Beneš|President Beneš]].<ref name="GOMPE">{{Cite web |title=JUDr. Philipp II. Gomperz |url=http://encyklopedie.brna.cz/home-mmb/?acc=profil_osobnosti&load=11502 |publisher=encyklopedie.brna.cz |language=česky}}</ref><ref name="GOMPE2">{{Cite web |title=Dr. Philip von Gomperz |url=http://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumer/holocaust/bio/bio_gomperz.htm |publisher=dfs.ny.gov |language=anglicky}}</ref> In 1998 the Czech government established a Commission to address the issue of mitigation of property injustices caused to victims of the Holocaust.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jewish Gold and other Precious Metals, Precious Stones and Objects made of such Materials - Situation in the Czech Lands in the years 1939 to 1945 |url=https://lootedart.com/RN0J83703841 |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=lootedart.com |quote=Related to this was the publication by the Expert Committee Team of the Art Report “Umělecké předměty ze židovského majetku v českých zemích 1938-1945, protiprávní zásahy do majetkových práv, jejich rozsah a následné osudy tohoto majetku” (Art Objects of Jewish Property in Czech Territory 1938 - 1945, Unlawful Interference with Property Rights, their Scope and the Subsequent Fate of this Property) which was completed in September 2000 and was to be the basis for further work. The Report contains sections on state and museum archives and literature relevant to looted artworks in the Czech Republic; the background to the seizure of property by the Nazis; mechanisms of confiscation and disposal of the looted artworks; case studies of Richard Popper, Emil Freund, Selma Bastyrova, Jindrich Waldes, Richard Morawetz, Oskar Federer, Arthur Feldmann and Philip Gomperz; restitution 1941-1948}}</ref> |
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During the war his properties in the Czech lands were confiscated. |
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After the war, he asked for his property to be returned, but it was confiscated again, now under decrees of President Beneš.<ref name="GOMPE">{{Cite web |title=JUDr. Philipp II. Gomperz |url=http://encyklopedie.brna.cz/home-mmb/?acc=profil_osobnosti&load=11502 |publisher=encyklopedie.brna.cz |language=česky}}</ref><ref name="GOMPE2">{{Cite web |title=Dr. Philip von Gomperz |url=http://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumer/holocaust/bio/bio_gomperz.htm |publisher=dfs.ny.gov |language=anglicky}}</ref> |
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In 1999 one of the artworks from the Gomperz looted collection was located at the [[North Carolina Museum of Art|North Carolina Museum of Ar]]<nowiki/>t. ''Madonna and Child in a Landscape'' by [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]] was the object of a restitution settlement between Gomperz's heirs and the museum in 2008<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Madonna stolen by Nazis takes a trip home |url=https://lootedart.com/news.php?r=NDE845417641 |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=lootedart.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Madonna and Child in a Landscape – Philipp von Gomperz Heirs and North Carolina Museum of Art — Centre du droit de l'art |url=https://plone.unige.ch/art-adr/cases-affaires/madonna-and-child-in-a-landscape-2013-north-carolina-museum |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=plone.unige.ch}}</ref> |
In 1999 one of the artworks from the Gomperz looted collection was located at the [[North Carolina Museum of Art|North Carolina Museum of Ar]]<nowiki/>t. ''Madonna and Child in a Landscape'' by [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]] was the object of a restitution settlement between Gomperz's heirs and the museum in 2008<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Madonna stolen by Nazis takes a trip home |url=https://lootedart.com/news.php?r=NDE845417641 |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=lootedart.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Madonna and Child in a Landscape – Philipp von Gomperz Heirs and North Carolina Museum of Art — Centre du droit de l'art |url=https://plone.unige.ch/art-adr/cases-affaires/madonna-and-child-in-a-landscape-2013-north-carolina-museum |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=plone.unige.ch}}</ref> |
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| Born | April 4, 1860 Brno  Austrian Empire |
| Died | December 3, 1948 (aged 88) Montreux  Switzerland |
Philipp Gomperz, also known as Philipp von Gomperz (4 April 1860 Brno - 4 December 1948 Montreux) was an Austrian businessman and politician of German nationality from Moravia.[1]
Biography
Born into a Jewish family active in business and political life in Brno in the 19th century, Gomper's father was Max Israel Gomperz (1822-1913) and his mother Louisa Gomperz, née Auspitz (1832-1917). His uncle Julius Gomperz (1823-1909) was a member of the Vienna Reichstag,[2] and another uncle Theodor Gomperz (1832-1912) was a philosopher and classical philologist. Julius' wife Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim (i.e. Philipp's aunt) was a pianist and singer. Philipp loved the singer Selma Kurz, but did not get permission from his father to marry her. He did not marry so he was the last male member of the Gomperz family.
Philipp studied law at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1883. From 1913 he was the sole owner of the family business L. Auspitz Enkel. The company produced cloth with the trademark of a falcon bearing a circle with the initials LAB (Lazar Auspitz Enkel). He was president of the Creditanstalt für Handel und Gewerbe. He participated in the social life in Vienna and was counted among the art connoisseurs. In 1911, after acquiring half of the castle in Oslavany from his father, he collected an extensive inventory of works of art there. He was awarded the Order of Franz Joseph (Grand Cross).
At the end of the 19th century he became involved in high politics. In the provincial elections of 1896 he was elected to the Moravian Provincial Assembly, for the Curia of the Grand Landowners, II. He defended his mandate there in the provincial elections of 1902, the provincial elections of 1906 and the provincial elections of 1913. In 1896 he was listed as a candidate of the Party of the Constitutionalist Grand Estate, which was centralist and pro-Vienna.
He also sat as a member of the House of Lords (the unelected upper house of the Reichstag).[3]
After the First World War he took Czechoslovak citizenship. However, he continued to own property in post-war Austria, including an apartment in the Palais Todesco in Vienna.
Nazi persecution after Anschluss in 1938
After Austria merged with Nazi Germany in the Anschluss Gomperz was persecuted by the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage. His property was seized, including his art collection[4] which was transfered by the Gestapo to Gallery Herzig (also known as Galerie St. Lukas).[5][6] He and his sisters fled to Switzerland via Prague.[7]
After the war, he asked for his property to be returned, but it was confiscated again, now under decrees of Czech President Beneš.[3][8] In 1998 the Czech government established a Commission to address the issue of mitigation of property injustices caused to victims of the Holocaust.[9]
In 1999 one of the artworks from the Gomperz looted collection was located at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Madonna and Child in a Landscape by Lucas Cranach the Elder was the object of a restitution settlement between Gomperz's heirs and the museum in 2008[10][11]
References
- ^ "HCPO Gallery: Dr. Philip von Gomperz - biography". Department of Financial Services. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
Dr. Philip Gomperz, was born on April 4, 1860 in Vienna to the wealthy industrialist and banker Max von Gomperz, who originally came from Brünn. After World War I, Dr. Gomperz took on Czechoslovakian citizenship. Although he still owned significant properties in Vienna, his economic interests were concentrated in Bohemia and Moravia
- ^ "GOMPERZ, JULIUS, RITTER VON - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
- ^ a b "JUDr. Philipp II. Gomperz" (in česky). encyklopedie.brna.cz.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Universalis, Encyclopædia. "Peinture de la Renaissance, xvie s. - Classification thématique". Encyclopædia Universalis (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-01.
Cette œuvre de la collection Philipp von Gomperz à Vienne (Autriche) fut volée en 1940 par les Nazis
- ^ "HCPO Gallery: Dr. Philip von Gomperz - biography". Department of Financial Services. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
- ^ "The Gallery". Galerie Sanct Lucas. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
- ^ "HCPO Gallery: Dr. Philip von Gomperz - biography". Department of Financial Services. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
- ^ "Dr. Philip von Gomperz" (in anglicky). dfs.ny.gov.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ "Jewish Gold and other Precious Metals, Precious Stones and Objects made of such Materials - Situation in the Czech Lands in the years 1939 to 1945". lootedart.com. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
Related to this was the publication by the Expert Committee Team of the Art Report "Umělecké předměty ze židovského majetku v českých zemích 1938-1945, protiprávní zásahy do majetkových práv, jejich rozsah a následné osudy tohoto majetku" (Art Objects of Jewish Property in Czech Territory 1938 - 1945, Unlawful Interference with Property Rights, their Scope and the Subsequent Fate of this Property) which was completed in September 2000 and was to be the basis for further work. The Report contains sections on state and museum archives and literature relevant to looted artworks in the Czech Republic; the background to the seizure of property by the Nazis; mechanisms of confiscation and disposal of the looted artworks; case studies of Richard Popper, Emil Freund, Selma Bastyrova, Jindrich Waldes, Richard Morawetz, Oskar Federer, Arthur Feldmann and Philip Gomperz; restitution 1941-1948
- ^ "A Madonna stolen by Nazis takes a trip home". lootedart.com. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
- ^ "Madonna and Child in a Landscape – Philipp von Gomperz Heirs and North Carolina Museum of Art — Centre du droit de l'art". plone.unige.ch. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
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