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- German born, he wanted to become a painter and finally became a German translator in Paris.
H
e married a French woman and during second world war he was a Nazi art looter living in the occupied France.
(Close collaborator for E. Goepel the main source for Goering and Hitler)
This is an exact copy of the confidential looted art report on this subject
As member of the ERR he was very active in the confiscation of Jewish collections.
Complete report here
He was condemned for espionage, looting and sentenced ti prison, finally went out and started again in the art business:
Two publications are the basis of the list below:
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. Modigliani, L'art et la vie XI , Ed. Seheur 1929 (know for the catalogue présumé in the last pages).
Included
290 works with only 90 photos, an enormous gap for mistakes.
Published with the support of Zborowski
and J. Netter the famous collector.
Therefore using the files & approval by both of them.
2.-
Modigliani et son oeuvre, Étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Ed. Bibliothèque des arts, 1956.
Included
362 works with only 43 photos, an even bigger gap for mistakes.
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The lists repeat earlier errors; later compilers often copied one another.
Later compilers have used Pfannstiel as a starting list for works not in Ceroni.
The 1929 and 1956 volumes remain useful as historical lists; dates, sizes and locations often diverge from later catalogues.
His opinion today is perfect to fill the notes & records for the auction houses, but only when it also has the Ceroni name in the list...
A painting documented only by Pfannstiel is not treated as sufficient by the major auction houses.
Dates, sizes and locations are reproduced as printed and are often incorrect by later standards. |
| Frédéric Pfannstiel his son, collaborates with Parisot (archives legales) as part of committees. Later notes place the remaining files in private hands in Florida. |
Auction notes still cite the name when a Ceroni number is also present.
A painting documented only by Pfannstiel is not treated as sufficient by the major auction houses.
The compilation is incomplete as a catalogue raisonné.
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- Selected titles on Modigliani, with a few wartime publications:
- 1.- Modigliani : Preface de Louis Latourrettes. Arthur Pfannstiel, M. Seheur, Paris (1929).
- 2.- Principes d'action, Adolf Hitler translation by Arthur Pfannstiel, B. Grasset, Paris (1936).
- 3.- La guerre totale. Erich Ludendorff translation by Arthur Pfannstiel, Flammarion, Paris (1937).
- 4.- Die Judenverschwörung in Frankreich, Louis Ferdinand Celine; Willi Fr Konitzer; Arthur S Pfannstiel, Zwinger-Verl, Dresden (1938)
- 5.- Das verratene Frankreich. Arthur Pfannstiel, Pp. 91. Berlin, (1940).
- 6.- Modigliani et son œuvre : etude critique et catalogue raisonnee. Arthur Pfannstiel, Biblioteque des arts, Paris (1956).
- 7.- Dessins de Modigliani. Arthur Pfannstiel, Mermod, Lausanne (1958).
- 8.- Modigliani. Arthur Pfannstiel, Schapire, Buenos Aires (1959).
- 9.- Jean Cocteau discovers some Modiglianis. Arthur Pfannstiel, Art. Connoisseur London, 159.1965/66, LOndon (1966).
- 10.- Werken van Amedeo Modigliani in Nederlands bezit, Arthur S Pfannstiel; Emilio Ribas; Centraal Museum, Utrecht (1968).
- 11.- Modigliani : a study of his sculpture. Bernard Schuster, Arthur S Pfannstiel, Jacksonville, NAMEGA Corp. Florida (1986).
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