Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf

Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf (30 October 1878 – 7 June 1954) was a German gallery owner, art dealer and philatelist from Munich involved in the Aryanisation of the Jewish-owned Heinemann Gallery[1][2] and in selling Nazi-looted art,[3][4] notably for Hitler's planned Linz museum.[5] After World War II he was a supporter of the philatelistic department of the Munich City Library.

Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf
Born(1878-10-30)October 30, 1878
Munich, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
DiedJune 7, 1954(1954-06-07) (aged 75)
Munich, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Gallery owner
Art dealer
Philatelist

In the 1930s he worked as a clerk at the Gallery Heinemann at the Lenbachplatz in Munich. In 1939 he acquired the gallery through Aryanization after the Jewish owner Mrs. Franziska Heinemann had been imprisoned for some weeks by the Nazis.[6] Mrs Heinemann was able to leave the prison and the country after signing over the gallery to Zinckgraf. She moved to New York and died in November 1940.

The Munich Stamp Society endowed a medal in his honour and named it after him. It is awarded each year to engaged young collectors. Two years after his death, the city of Munich dedicated a street to him in the Großhadern quarter.

Nazi-looted art

In 2005 Heinrich von Zügel's ZWEI RINDER AUF DER WEIDE (Two Cows in a Meadow) which had been seized by the Nazis and sold via Zinckgraf in a forced sale, was restituted to the heirs of the Jewish art collector Alexander Lewin.[7] Artworks from the Ullmann Collection also came into the possession of Zinkgraf. The Frankfurth Historical Museum later restituted them to the heirs of Hedwig Ullmann.[8]

References
  1. "Dealer Records: Galerie Heinemann online". www.lootedart.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2021-04-10. In September 1938 Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf (1878-1954), a senior employee of the gallery, took over Fritz Heinemann's share in the gallery. After the pogrom on November 9/10, 1938, Franziska Heinemann's share was also "aryanized" by Zinckgraf. The Aryanization negotiations, however, took a good year at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Munich, because Zinckgraf was accused of "fictitious Aryanization" owing to his close contact to the Heinemann family. To finance the business, Zinckgraf finally received a loan from Reich Minister Hjalmar Schacht. He became the sole owner of the gallery with all its documents by the end of 1939.
  2. "Zinckgraf, Friedrich Heinrich | Proveana". www.proveana.de. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
  3. "Lost Art Internet Database - Search". www.lostart.de. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
  4. "Lost Art Internet Database - Beteiligte Privatpersonen und Körperschaften am NS-Kulturgutraub - Zinckgraf, Friedrich Heinrich". www.lostart.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-18. Retrieved 2021-04-10. Zinckgraf, Friedrich Heinrich 1878–1954; Kunsthändler, München, Studium der Kunstwissenschaften, München, 1909 trat in die "Galerie D. Heinemann", Lenbachplatz 5/6, ein, vor 1938 leitender Mitarbeiter, übernimmt Anteile von Fritz Heinemann, "arisiert" Anteile von Franziska Heinemann, 1939 alleiniger Inhaber der Galerie, "Arisierung" vollzogen mit Unterstützung von Reichsbankpräsident Hjalmar Schacht (1877–1970), 1941 Umbenennung in "Galerie Zinckgraf", 1946 erhält Linzenz zur Fortführung der Galerie, 1954 gründet den Verband bayerischer Kunst und Antiquitätenhändler und ist dessen erster Vorsitzender, verkaufte an Voss, Sachverständiger neben Sauermann und Weinmüller. Lit.: Anja Heuss, Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf und die "Arisierung" der Galerie Heinemann in München, in: Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Januar 2013 Qu.: ALIU, Final Report, 85 (wohl hier fälschlich: "Galerie Bernheimer", richtig: "Galerie Heinemann"); Friedrich H. Zinckgraf in: Die Weltkunst, 15. Juni 1954, 3 (Nekrolog)
  5. "DHM: Linzer Sammlung - Datenbankabfrage". www.dhm.de. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
  6. "History of the gallery". Galerie Heinemann Online. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  7. "19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN PAINTINGS, INCLUDING GERMAN, AUSTRIAN AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN PAINTINGS, AND THE SCANDINAVIAN SALE 13 JUNE 2006| 10:30 AM BST LONDON". PROVENANCE Galerie Heinemann, Munich Alexander Lewin, Guben (acquired from the above in 1913; forced sale to Galerie Zinckgraf, Munich, in 1939) Acquired by the German Reich for the Führermuseum in Linz from the above in 1940 The City of Wörth/Rhein (placed in trust by the Federal Republic of Germany). Restituted to the heirs of Alexander Lewin in 2005
  8. "Geglückte Restitution des Gemäldes „Sommer (Frau und Junge)" von Hans Thoma - A Successful Restitution of the Hans Thoma painting 'Summer (woman and boy)'". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 2023-01-29.


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