[1] "So we don't have to go by our unreal funds,"[2] wrote Sigfried Asche in a letter of 29 April 1940 to Cornelius Müller-Hofstede, after he had gone through the Sachs collection together with the Breslau art historian Hubertus Lossow [de] and compiled a wish list.
Thus Asche succeeded in bringing a painting by Lovis Corinth, which came from the possession of Otto Ollendorff in Breslau, to Görlitz.
But works from the Jewish collections of Sachs and Leo Smoschewer also came to Görlitz, including paintings by Adolf Dressler [de], Corinth, Fritz von Uhde, Wilhelm Trübner, Albert Weisgerber, Jules Dupré, Alexander Kanoldt, Konrad von Kardorff [de], Carlo Mense and sculptures by Georg Kolbe.
[3] After the Second World War, Asche was initially busy rebuilding the art collection in Görlitz and became involved in the restoration and reconstruction of destroyed churches in Upper Lusatia.
A false ceiling was inserted into the armoury hall, which was to be stabilised, so that the upper half could be added to the Wartburg Museum, while a sales room for souvenirs and tickets could be set up below.