Sepp Angerer

[2] Art that Angerer dealt with for Göring came from a variety of sources: looted, acquired using threats, bought on the open market, and appropriated from museums.

German-born Dutch national Franz Koenig[9] bought Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet (first version, 1890)[10] and Daubigny's Garden (1890),[11] and Cézanne's The Quarry (c.

When Göring desired to give Adolf Hitler a gift, he asked Angerer to buy eight Flemish tapestries from Albert Auwercx's series of "Gothic Myths",[5] as the Nazis called these allegorical subjects.

[citation needed] On a trip to Florence, around 1942, Angerer and the local German consul Gerhard Wolf went on a tour of Count Bonacossi's collection.

Enquirers after the Jewish art historian Bernard Berenson's collection were told that he had fled to Portugal with the help of the Vatican and that nothing of importance remained in Florence.

[14] Thomas Carr Howe Jr., one of the U.S. "monuments men" charged with recovering looted art, described what he found there: "The house was an unpretentious villa hidden among pine trees high up in the hills above the town.

A similar storeroom on the second floor contained a dozen tapestries, a pile of Oriental rugs, a large collection of church vestments and nearly a hundred rare textiles mounted on cardboard.

… Concealed beneath the tapestries were ten cases, each one about two feet square and a foot high... On each one was stenciled in Gothic letters: "Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring."