Adolphe Schloss

He married Lucie Mathilde Haas and together they collected works of art from the Northern and Southern Netherlands that became notable in the 1900s as the Ad.

They held a gallery at Salon Adolphe Schloss, residence 38, avenue Henri Martin, Paris.

After Adolphe's death there, his widow continued to collect paintings and lent her works to various exhibitions as Mme.

[4] Frau Schloss died in 1938 and the collection was left to their children Marguerite, Henry, Juliette and Lucien.

By that time it was clear the respected collection had been targeted by the Nazis and the heirs moved what they could to Château de Chambon, Laguenne.

[6] At the end of the war in Europe, all of the collection was lost, but twenty-one works were found shortly afterwards in and around Munich,[5] The 49 paintings that had gone to the Louvre were returned to the family in 1946.

The sale included a portrait of Paul Pontius by Van Dyck, now in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

It was the subject of an extensive series of court cases that eventually lead to the conviction of an art dealer for possession of artwork looted during the Second World War.