Simon Bauer
French Jewish collector of impressionist art looted by Vichy Nazi Occupation authorities
About Simon Bauer
Lived 1862 – 1947 (aged 84–85). Simon Bauer was an art collector and businessperson.
Art collection According to the inventory taken at the time of its appropriation on 10 October 1943, Bauer's art collection comprised more than 90 works that included eleven by Pissarro, four by Sisley, four by Boudin, and one each by Degas and Berthe Morisot. The sale was entrusted to a merchant designated by the General Commissariat for Jewish Affairs .
The following year, in the summer of 1944, Bauer was interned at the Drancy internment camp but saved from deportation and likely death by a railway strike.
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Who was Simon Bauer?
French Jewish collector of impressionist art looted by Vichy Nazi Occupation authorities (1862-1947)
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Simon Bauer was born on 11 July 1862 in Romanswiller.
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Simon Bauer died in 1947 in 16th arrondissement of Paris.
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Simon Bauer was an art collector and businessperson.
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