Viktor Fogarassy

Viktor Fogarassy (6 May 1911 – 24 March 1989) was an Austrian merchant, managing partner of the Kastner & Öhler department stores, and an art collector, especially of works by Egon Schiele.

[4][5] In 1938, the directors of the department store decided to sell their shares to their "Aryan" sons-in-law to prevent a confiscation by the Nazi regime.

When these were confiscated by communists in 1946, he moved back to Graz,[3] where he became managing partner (Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter) in 1948.

[7] The state of Styria founded a prize for the support of contemporary art (Förderungspreis des Landes Steiermark für Zeitgenössische Bildende Kunst) in his name, the Viktor-Fogarassy-Preis.

[9] In 2018, in an act of private restitution, his family agreed to auction a painting, Schiele's Dämmernde Stadt (City in Twilight or The Small City II), that he had acquired in good faith, sharing the proceeds with the descendants of the former Jewish owner.

Kleine Stadt by Schiele