German 1844-1900

Abraham Adelsberger, Nuremberg (Adelsberger (1863-1940) was a Nuremberg industrialist and entrpreneur, who ran a hop business and owned the tin toy manufactory Heinrich Fischer & Cie, which employed over 300 at its height. On the back of his success he was able to build an outstanding art collection, which included important Old Masters, including Jupiter and Antiope by the Dutch painter Hendrick Goltzius as well as contemporary nineteenth-century works. In 1937 he was forced to sell his house and other properties, and his toy factoiry was aryanised. While his children Paul and Sofie had fled Nazi Germany as early as 1934, Adelsberger and his wife Clotilde remained in Nuremberg, finally fleeing to Amsterdam in 1939, and able to bring only part of their art collection with them, including the Goltzius (which was subsequently subject to a forced sale to Hermann Göring). Adelsberger died in Amsterdam, and his wife was deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1943, but survived. The Goltzius was restitiuted to the Adelsberger heirs in 2010, when it was sold at Sotheby’s New York for $6.8m). Abraham Adelsberger's sale: Hugo Helbing, Munich, 14 November 1931, lot 90, where unsold)

Transferred from Abraham Adelsberger to Alfred Isay (his son in law) in 1930

On deposit with the Dresdner Bank, Nuremberg by 1935

Sold by the above to the Nationalgalerie, Berlin in August 1935