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Bauer: Kunstlieferantin des "Dritten Reichs", Berlin 2021.
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Nadine Bauer: Kunstlieferantin des "Dritten Reichs". Umkreis und Wirkungsradius von Maria Dietrich, Diss. TU Berlin, Berlin 2021.
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German
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Maria Dietrich was born in 1892 into a family of butchers in Munich. By her own account, she had been working as an art and antiques dealer in Munich since 1918.
The first part of the dissertation deals with various aspects of the origin and establishment of her business: Since when can activity in the Munich art trade be proven? From when were advertisements placed? Other women in the Munich art trade are sketched and the question is pursued what it meant for a woman to become self-employed around 1920.
The focus of the main section is on the activities of the Galerie Almas during the Nazi era. It is traced how Dietrich became the main buyer for Adolf Hitler and his "Special Mission Linz" within a few years, whose main goal was to build up an encyclopedic museum collection. Acquisitions made by the Galerie Almas for Hitler and his entourage were primarily noticed within Germany in Berlin and Munich, as well as in Austria from 1938 and in France and the Netherlands between 1940 and 1944.
The last part of the dissertation deals with her conflicts with the allied military government after 1945 and claims to art objects made to and by Maria Dietrich. A description of the re-establishment of Dietrich’s and her daughter’s art trade from the early 1950s onwards concludes the work and suggests continuities in the business of art in general and Munich in particular. (Source: https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/12121 last access 9.08.2021)
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