Julius Freund

Julius Freund (18 April 1869 in Cottbus – 11 March 1941 in Wigton, Borough of Allerdale, United Kingdom) was a German entrepreneur and art collector persecuted by the Nazis because he was Jewish.

In it she stated: "My father, Julius Freund, collected decades and always only from the point of view of artistic value, never in the thought of monetary exploitation".

”Despite the scarce foreign currency of the German Empire, Posse acquired from the Freund collection for the so-called“ Führermuseum “113 paintings and drawings valued at 62,581.80 francs.

While the paintings mostly passed into the possession of the Federal Republic of Germany after the war, the 94 graphics came from the Weesenstein Castle depot as so-called looted art in the Soviet Union.

The Zurich collector Emil Georg Bührle bought works by Blechen, Carus, Gustav Adolf Friedrich, Hosemann, Krüger, Menzel and Slevogt from the auction.

Before the auction, the collector Oskar Reinhart acquired a portrait of Caspar David Friedrich by Gerhard von Kügelgen directly from Fritz Nathan.

In 2005 the Germany Advisory Commission ruled in favor of restitution, writing, "In 1939 Julius Freund and his wife, now penniless, emigrated to London because of the persecution measures of the Nazis.

"[13]In 2005, three paintings by Carl Blechen and a watercolor by Anselm Feuerbach, which had previously been on loan from the Federal Republic of Germany in various museums, were restituted to the Freund heirs.