Ferenc Hatvany
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Baron Ferenc Hatvany (29 October 1881 – 7 February 1958) was a Hungarian painter and art collector. A son of Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch and a member of the Template:Ill, he graduated in the Académie Julian in Paris. His collection[1] included paintings by Tintoretto, Cézanne, Renoir, Ingres and Courbet, most notably L'Origine du monde and Femme nue couchée.
During the Second World War, his art collection was placed in a bank vault in Budapest to protect it from the pro-Nazi Hungarian government, and the Hatvany family, which was Jewish, fled the country just before the Nazi takeover of Hungary in March 1944.[2]
Mystery surrounds the fate of the paintings, which appear to have been looted by Germans and then by Soviets.[3] Towards the end of the Second World War his paintings were looted by Soviet troops but some were ransomed by Hatvany. In 1947 he emigrated to Paris.[4] In 1955 L'Origine du monde was sold at auction for 1.5 million francs (the buyer was psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan). The lawyer Hans Deutsch filed a claim on behalf of Ferenc Hatvany against the German government and obtained compensation for him.[5]
Paintings that were looted from Hatvany's collection are still hanging on museum walls in Budapest, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 2005, the Hatvany heirs recovered Femme nue couchée (1862) after it resurfaced in 2000 in the hands of a Slovakian art dealer. In 2014 an agreement was reached with the Tate for John Constable's Beaching A Boat, Brighton [6] In 2021 Courbet's Baigneuses dans la forêt (1862) was restituted to the Hatvany heirs.[7] The Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art printed the image of one of the missing paintings on a playing card in an effort to relaunch the search.[8]
Hatvany died in Lausanne in 1958.
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References
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- ↑ Inventory of art works which Hatvany placed in the strongrooms of major Budapest banks in 1942 Template:Webarchive
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- ↑ "Tate to return Constable painting looted by Nazis" The Telegraph; 28 March 2014
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Further reading
- László Mravik. Hungary's Pillaged Art Heritage. Part Two: The Fate of the Hatvany Collection. Hungarian Quarterly vol. 39, no. 15, 1998. [1]Template:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. Accessed on February 7, 2007.
- László Mravik. "Princes, Counts, Idlers and Bourgeois:" A Hundred Years of Hungarian Collecting, 3rd part. In T. Kieselbach (ed.) Studies in Modern Hungarian Painting 1892–1919. [2]. Accessed on February 7, 2007.