To view from the gallery Luz

Dr Wilhelm August Luz (1892-1959) was one of the most prominent art dealers in the Reich’s capital, Berlin. His gallery specialised in paintings from the Romantic period. Adolf Hitler was one of his customers, as was Dr Hans Posse, the Special Commissioner in charge of setting up the Hitler Museum in Linz. Luz had good relations with the Berlin National Gallery and also supplied many German museums with 19th century art. Initially, he offered his paintings at favourable prices. However, the Second World War caused his prices to skyrocket, although this did not dampen the museums' eagerness to buy. Between 1939 and 1948 the Dortmund Museum acquired ten paintings for 107,650 Reichsmarks. As the business records of Dr Luz’s Gallery are said to have been incinerated in the post-war period, little is known about the provenance of the paintings.

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