Hans Wendland

[1][2] Among his key contacts were the French industrialist and collaborator Achille Boitel,[3] Hugo Engel,[4] Allen Loebl,[5] Yves Perdoux[6] and others in Paris[7] and Charles Montag [de],[8] Théodore Fischer,[9] Alexander von Frey[10] and Albert Skira in Switzerland.

[16][17] During the German occupation, he regularly spent time in Paris and traded in works of art that had been confiscated by Reichsleiter Rosenberg's task force.

He maintained contact with colleagues such as Karl Haberstock, Wolfgang Gurlitt, Bruno Lohse, Gustav Rochlitz, Allen and Manon Loebl, Paul Pétridès, Victor Mandl and Adolf Wüster.

The sometimes speculative barter and investment transactions went on for years and reached such an extent that the FBI investigated the company in the early 1940s for violating neutrality and espionage.

[18] On 18 September 1946, Otto Wittman, Jr. and Bernard Taper of the OSS Art Looting Intelligence Unit and the MFAA (also known as the Monuments Men) submitted the Detailed Interrogation Report on the HANS WENDLAND.

Landscape with chimneys (Landschaft mit Schornsteinen) by Edgar Degas was found by the heirs of Friedrich Gutmann in the collection of Daniel Searle, a trustee at the Art Institute of Chicago with a false provenance[29] which required a long and contentious lawsuit to elucidate.