Extracts from a report on artworks confiscated in Poland, including drawings presented to Hitler and paintings sent from Cracow to Berlin

[Report of Special Delegate for Art Seizures, July 1943] [Page 68 Par. 134]
The collection Lubomierski in Lemberg contained among others 31 valuable hand drawings by Albrecht Duerer. An offer made
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in the spring of 1940 by a special commissioner through the foreign office to the Eussian government, to exchange these drawings by Duerer for equally valuable Eussian works of arts and literary monument, was refused. On the day of the capture of Lemberg, the special commissioner, Dr. Muehlmann and the museum director Dr. Kudlich went there by order of the Eeich-marshal, to conduct a search for the hand drawings. The investigation encountered considerable difficulties, because the Eussians had reorganized the system of museums in Lemberg and because the collection Lubomierski did not exist any more.
In the course of further investigations Prof. Gebarowicz of the Bawarowski-museum, who had publicized the drawings in the past, was thoroughly interrogated also. Finally he explained that he kept the drawings carefully hidden from the Eussians in the Bawarowski-museum. On demand, he also brought them out from concealment.
After thorough examination, the sequestration was announced, and a regular receipt was issued.
The special commissioner has turned over these hand drawings in July 1941 to the Eeichmarshal in person, who brought them to the Fuehrer into the headquarters, where they still are. By specific order of the Fuehrer, they remain temporarily in his possession.
The following single drawings are affected, which were entered in the supplement of the catalogue (31 drawings on 23 cartons) :
Carton I 1.
2.
Carton II 3.
Carton III 4.
5.
Carton IV 6.
Carton V 7.
8.
9.
Carton VI 10.
11.
Carton VII 12.
13.
Carton VIII 14.
Carton IX 15.
Carton X 16.
Carton XT 17.
Self portrait
6 pillows
The young steer
Nude with mirror
Partial sketch of the same figure
Nude woman with headscarf
in a niche on a sphere
Nude man with lion
Nude man with mirror
Attached weak reprint of the same
figure
Corner ornament with eagle
The holy family
Drapery study
Nude man lying down
Oarsman
Horse
Europa on the steer Corpus Christi
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Carton XII 18.
Carton XIII 19.
Carton XIV 20.
21.
Carton XV 22.
Carton XVI 23.
Carton XVII 24.
25.
Carton XVIII 26.
Carton XIX 27.
Carton XX 28.
Carton XXI 29.
Carton XXII 30.
Carton XXIII 31.
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Nude woman with a staff Sampson with the city gates of Gaza Mary and child Childhead
Pictures of the emperors Charlemagne and Sigismund The holy family in a hut Study for a Madonna and the head of an old man
Two geometric drawings
Mary with a child in an indicated
renaissance hall
Christ as king of the universe
Man's head with a cap
Lamentations over Christ
Head of a deer
Study for an adoration, left kneeling Mary, right Holy Joseph
Works of art for decorative 'purposes
On the desire of the Governor General, a number of 2nd and 3rd class art objects was made available to him for exhibition and decorative purposes,—Reference Paragraph 141 and 142.—The architect Franz Koettgen in Krakau was charged with the execution. of this mission, especially the furnishing of Castle Kressendorf and the castle in Krakau. A list was made by the special commissioner, in which all objects, put at the disposal of architect Koettgen, were exactly listed in detail.
During the conference with the architect Koettgen, on 30 July 1942, the latter promised, to continue the inventory, already started by him, more rapidly, and to conclude by the end of 1942 at the latest. He furthermore said he was willing, to provide the special commissioner after the completion of the inventories with a directory of the location of the individual objects. The completeness of the transferred art objects and their careful storing can only be examined after the completion of the inventories.
A copy of the above mentioned lists on the object, put at the disposal of Goettgen is added to the report as enclosure Nr. 8
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Of the objects, taken from the depot of the special commissioner in the state library in Krakau as of 1 Aug 1942, the following were inspected:
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I. In Berlin in the depot of the special Commissioner and in the safe of the German Bank:
Catalogue No
East German Master 1430 "Picture of the Vesper"........ 4
German Master 16th century "Picture of a bearded man" 17
Master von Kappenberg "Mary with child"................ 27
Dirk Bouts "Annunciation of Mary" ..................... 35
Netherland Master "Lamentation over Christ"............ 42
Berckheyde "Small Houtpoort in Haarlem"................ 45
Breughel "Folksfestival"............................... 47
Gerrit Dou "Rembrandt's mother" ....................... 51
Pinturicchio "Madonna and child" ...................... 138
Raffael "Picture of a young man" ...................... 141
Venetian Master "Mary and child" ...................... 145
de Largilliere "Portrait of a lady".................... 158
Further two 2nd class pictures, namely "The lustful old man" (unequal lovers) "Fugger's Portrait".