Moses

Conclusion

This figure was part of the collection confiscated from the heirs of Emma Budge.

Explanation

The figure was part of a collection belonging to Emma Budge, born Emma Ranette Lazarus (1852-1937), daughter of a Jewish businessman from Hamburg. After marrying Henry Budge, an American, she adopted his nationality. After her death in 1937, her art collection was confiscated by the German regime and sold at Paul Graupe auction house in Berlin.

Update 2018

On 16 March 2018 the Restitutions Committee gave binding advice to restitute this sculpture to the legal successors of its former owner.

Reconstruction origin

Before 1937-09-27

Emma Budge (collection), Hamburg

Museum inventory; D. Hannema, Beschrijvende catalogus van de schilderijen, beeldhouwwerken,aquarellen en drawings behorende tot de verzameling van de Stichting Hannema-De Stuers Fundatie in het Kasteel ’t Nijenhuis bij Heino.Overijssel, Rotterdam 1967, p. 117, no. 547; see P. Graupe cat., Berlin, 27 September 1937, no. 124 (ill.)

1937-09-27

Paul Graupe (auction), Berlin

Museum inventory; see P. Graupe cat., Berlin, 27 September 1937, no. 124 (ill.)

? - c. 1948

Charles De Stuers (collection)

Museum inventory

c. 1948-1952

Verwerving museum (Dr. D. Hannema) van Ch. De Stuers

Museum inventory

1952 <> present day

Museum de Fundatie (Stichting Hannema de Stuers Fundatie)