Eduard Sturzenegger

After further training in Paris and Saint-Quentin in Picardy, he founded an embroidery factory in St. Gallen in 1883, adding a shop in 1886, and expanding to Lucerne, Basel, Geneva, St. Moritz and San Remo.

In 2017, the ownership history of artworks in the St. Gallen Art Museum began to be investigated as part of a Nazi-era provenance project.

[6] From the Sturzenegger collection in St. Gallen, he sold several dozen paintings in Germany that were thought to be “artistically unpleasant” and in return acquired “more valuable” ones.

[...] Since this wave of bad taste is likely to subside again in the foreseeable future, it is very advisable to take advantage of this unexpected opportunity - happiness in disaster.

"[8] By 1936, Nathan sold a total of 61 pictures from the collection, including Arnold Böcklin's Island of the Dead, which Sturzenegger had once hung in his office and which now came into the possession of Adolf Hitler and was housed in the Reich Chancellery.

[9] When Nathan could no longer travel to Germany, he kept in touch with Karl Haberstock, Hitler's preferred art dealer, and was able to sell pictures that ended up in the so-called Führer Museum.