The Reich Treasure

After the end of the Second World War, the Allies confiscated the collection of the planned Führer Museum in Linz as well as works of art owned by high-ranking Nazi officials. They interrogated all those involved and began the restitution process. If there was no evidence of unlawful confiscation, they were released as loans to the museums. Numerous paintings, graphic designs, furniture and decorative arts were thus transferred to the Museum of Art and Cultural History.

After Anselm Feuerbach's death, the painting Nanna came into the possession of the Heidelberg medical officer Dr Franz Wolf. It entered the market via his granddaughter in 1935. The photographer Heinrich Hoffmann acquired the painting at the Ludwigs-Galerie in Munich, probably on behalf of Adolf Hitler. There is evidence that it hung in the  sitting room of Hitler's Berghof residence in the Obersalzberg near Berchtesgarden.