Frederic Wolff-Knize
Frederic ("Fritz") Wolff-Knize (26 July 1890 – October 1949) was a German businessman, owner of Kniže & Comp. and an art collector.
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Knize married Annie (née Rothmüller), who was born on 10 October 1905, and died in November 1979 in New Canaan, Connecticut.[1] They lived in Vienna IV, Wohllebengasse 8 / III and in Dürrenast in Thun, Switzerland.
Knize directed "Kniže & Comp.", in Vienna I., Graben 13 with branches in Bad Gastein, Szgb., Berlin, Prague and Karlsbad.[2]
Art collection
[edit | edit source]The Wolff-Knize collection included an ethnographic collection[3] and numerous works by Oskar Kokoschka[2] as well as art by Marc Chagall and others.[4][5][6] Following his death in 1949, his substantial collection was broken up and sold, partly at the Kende Galleries in New York.[7][8] Among the Kokoschka's in the Knize family collection was "Zwei Mädschen"[9]
Nazi era
[edit | edit source]When Austria was merged with the Third Reich in the Anschluss of 1938, Knize, his family and business were persecuted because of their Jewish heritage. Knize escaped to Paris; but in 1939 he was interned at Bassens. The Knize company was Aryanized in 1938, that is removed from Jewish ownership and placed under non-Jewish control.[10][11] It was placed under provisional administration; in 1941 his property in Vienna was removed and sold via the Nazi VUGESTA looting organization.[2][12]
Frederic Wolff-Knize died in 1949. His wife, Annie, lived in the USA until her death.[2]
Postwar
[edit | edit source]In 1950, Anni Wolff-Knize tried to recover "The Lying Woman" by Schiele.[13] This was refused by the Federal Monuments Office and finally sold to Rudolf Leopold.[14] Today it represents one of the highlights of the Leopold Museum.[2][15]
As of 2021, there were 19 paintings and nine other artworks from the collection of Annie and Frederic Knize listed in the German Lost Art Foundation database.[16][17]
See also
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