Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi

Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi (18 March 1878 – 22 October 1955) was an Italian politician, art collector, dealer, and philatelist.

Contini-Bonacossi was born in Ancona on 18 March 1878 to Camillo Contini and the Countess Elena Bonacossi Bermudez of Ferrara.

Through Walter Hofer, Contini-Bonacossi sourced art for the Göring Collection.

[1] Around 1942, Göring's art agent Sepp Angerer, and the local German consul Gerhard Wolf, went on a tour of Contini-Bonacossi's collection.

"[2] Contini-Bonacossi was investigated in 1946 by the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit for his role in dealing Nazi-looted art and placed on the Red Flag List of Names.