Theodor Fischer (auctioneer)

For the Olympic fencer, see Theodor Fischer (fencer).
Theodore Fischer auctioning Georges Braque's Stilleben (Still Life) (1924) in 1939
The catalogue for the 1939 sale at the Grand Hotel
Franz Marc, Grazing Horses IV, or Three Red Horses, 1911. One of the pictures sold by Fischer at the 1939 Grand Hotel auction.[1]

Theodor Fischer (1878–1957) was a Swiss art dealer and auctioneer in Lucerne who after the First World War built a highly successful firm of auctioneers that dominated the Swiss art market. In 1939 he was the auctioneer at the infamous Grand Hotel auction of "degenerate art" removed from German museums by the Nazis. During the Second World War he played a key part in the trading of art looted by the Germans from occupied countries.

  1. ^ "The Red Horses" by Franz Marc. Marc Masurovsky, plundered art, Holocaust Art Restitution Project, 3 January 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2014.