Portrait bust of King Frederick William III of Prussia
This object presumably came from the property of Clara Marx and was added to the collection of the ‘Haus der Heimat - Sauerländisches Friedrich Harkort Museum’ through a purchase during the Nazi dictatorship. However, she did not receive the money for it, as it was allegedly given directly to the tax office due to overdue ‘Jewish property taxes’.
Parts of the collection - such as this object - became to property of the Hagen City Museum in the post-war period.
Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Geschichte der Dinge: Zur Herkunft der Objekte in nordrhein-westfälischen Sammlungen. Münster 2020. S. 156f.
Stadtarchiv Hagen: Ha1-9095.
W. Creutzenberg, "Die von der Jüdin Marx geschenkten Möbel befinden sich im Heimatmuseum", in: HagenBuch 2022 (Hrsg.: Hagener Heimatbund)
Archäologiemuseum Hagen - Wasserschloss Werdringen & Stadtmuseum Hagen
Museumsplatz 1-3
58095 Hagen
Germany