Elsa Gall (27 July 1882 - 16 January 1963) was an Austrian Jewish art dealer forced into exile by Nazi persecution.
Like many others, she and her heirs have sought restitution and some of the Nazi plunder has since been given back in a slow-going process that, in her case and curiously, falsely gave a landscape by Robert Russ to the wrong claimants.
In March 1938 the art publisher Ernst Edhoffer and the etcher and Nazi party member Luigi Kasimir took control of Halm & Goldmann.
The Galls' belongings, which had been stored at a shipping company, were confiscated by the Gestapo in November 1940 and sold by the Vugesta, a Nazi looting organization, in private sales or through the Dorotheum auction house.
[3][4] All but two of the works seized by the Nazis stayed lost until Elsa Gall's death in 1963.