Art historian and graphic artist; from 2008 provenance researcher in the Bureau of the Commission for Provenance Research; 2014 provenance research in the Main Zoology Library of the Natural History Museum Vienna; since 2020 also in the mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna; talks and publications on provenance research and collaboration in the Online card index of the Central Depot for Seized Collections in Vienna.
Lisa Frank
Heinrich Klang was born in Vienna, the son of James (formerly Jacob Moses) Klang, director general of the k.
Rosa Hirsch, who came from a family of factory owners in Pilsen, married the chemist and industrialist Alfred Kraus in 1900. From 1908, the couple lived with their two children Marianne and Richard in an apartment furnished by Adolf Loos at Mohsgasse 2 in Vienna’s 3rd district.
On 21 September 1962, the Minister of Education Heinrich Drimmel opened the Museum of the Twentieth Century in the adapted former Austrian pavilion for the 1958 Brussels Expo, now in the Schweizergarten in Vienna.
Ernst Pollack was born in Vienna as the son of Friedrich Pollak and his wife Franziska, née Fischel.
The hairdresser Walter Wellek was enlisted in the Reich Labour Service from February to June 1940 before beginning training in September that year at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Photographie in Vienna, which he completed in June 1943.
The Central Depot was established in autumn 1938 to store objects from seized Vienna art collections whose owners were persecuted as Jews.