Sales for people in hiding
During the war years, artworks were sold by their owners to finance the costs of going into hiding or fleeing the country. A trustworthy middleman was required in order to manage such a forced sale. One such man was the Jewish art dealer Gustav Cramer, who in 1938 had fled to the Netherlands from Germany. He had the advantage of being protected by Hans Posse, the director of Hitler's Führer Museum. According to his own testimony in 1950, Cramer had sold a few of paintings during the war for a German Jew who had gone into hiding. Of course, to protect her identity, her name was not noted in the books at the time of the sale. Unfortunately, this means that we can no longer determine who the woman was that had been forced to sell these paintings under the pressure of those circumstances.
