Leo Smoschewer

Since 1899, the company Feldhahn-Industrie Smoschewer & Co, located at Kaiser Wilhelmstraße 48–50 in Breslau, was engaged in the manufacture and sale of all materials used for the construction and installation of railroad equipment in the broadest sense.

The company had an extensive domestic and foreign organization, and had its own branches in Berlin, Leipzig, Görlitz, Gdansk, Bromberg, Katowice, Prague and Bucharest.

[5] After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, Leo Smoscewer and his family were persecuted by the Nazis because of their Jewish heritage.

The art collection also included sculptures by August Gaul, Theodor von Gosen and Georg Kolbe.

[8][9] In 2003, the Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Görlitz returned Gartenweg zum Sommerhaus (Godramstein) by Max Slevogt to the heirs.

[10] In 2004 Conrad Ansorge am Klavier by Max Slevogt was restituted by the Belvedere Museum in Vienna to the Smoschewer heirs.

[12][13] Sinnendes Mädchen / Frau mit Schimmel (‘Pensive Girl/Women with White Horse’) (Lost Art-ID 302432) was restituted in 2022.