[1] Reichel was a prominent collector of Austrian Expressionist art, including Egon Schiele, Max Oppenheimer, and Oskar Kokoschka.
[8] His widow, Malvine Reichel, was deported with Transport 46c from Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt Ghetto, in Czechoslovakia on 11 January 1943.
[13][14]Reichel's business and home were confiscated during World War II, and one of his sons was sent to a concentration camp, where he died.
"To suggest, at that period in Vienna, that there was no pressure is ridiculous," said professor Deborah E. Lipstadt, a Holocaust historian and former director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University.
[15][16] In 2009, a restitution claim against Sarah Dunbar for the painting “Portrait of a Youth”, by Oskar Kokoschka, which Reichel had sold to art dealer Otto Kallir in Vienna in 1939 was also unsuccessful.