Inventory number: OCE-1936-0003

Item category: Applied art

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Institution: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

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This albarello belonged to the collection of Frank and Margarethe Oppenheim, a Jewish couple.

The Oppenheims lived in Oppenheim villa at Wannsee, which became infamous as the venue of the eponymous conference held there by the Nazis. Franz Oppenheim, the director of Agfa, died in 1929. His Jewish wife Margarethe died in September 1935. Oppenheim's heirs put the large and high quality collection up for auction at Julius Böhler in 1936. The result was deposited in a blocked account at Deutsche Länderbank Berlin under the name Nachlass-Konto Frau Margarethe Oppenheim. It is unclear whether the heirs were ever able to access the money made in the sale. The albarello was included in the Museum Acquisitions 1940-1948 report (Amsterdam 1999). In 2001, the museum appealed to Oppenheim's heirs through an advert in the Jerusalem Post to contact The Hague municipality. No reaction was forthcoming.