Dagobert Frey (23 April 1883 in Vienna – 13 May 1962 in Stuttgart) was an Austrian art historian, a criminal responsible for the theft of the most valuable European and Polish collections from the Warsaw and Kraków museums and national art galleries during the Nazi German occupation of Poland.[1]
As professor in European art history from the Osteuropa-Institut, Frey was wined and dined by Polish art experts numerous times in the late 1930s. He prepared a meticulous list of the most valuable paintings at the National Museum, Warsaw among other locations across Poland. He showed up at the Museum again in October 1939 with the Gestapo, after the capitulation of the Polish capital, and directed the SS-Untersturmführer Theo Daeisel to art pieces that needed to be seized and shipped to Germany first, including the Portrait of a Young Man by Rembrandt from the collections of the Łazienki Palace (Pałac Łazienkowski),[2] and numerous other masterpieces including paintings by Bernardo Bellotto called Canaletto.[1] The items stolen from the National Museum included 99% of all coins, 100% of historic clocks, 80% jewellery, 63% fabrics, 60% furniture, and 70% ancient manuscripts.[3] The Gestapo headquarters in Warsaw presented the Rembrandt as a gift to Hans Frank in occupied Kraków. Frey moved to Kraków the same month, along with his colleague from the SS, dr Joseph Mühlmann [de]. Together, they pinpointed all sorts of treasures at Wawel (architectural detail notwithstanding), directing Frank in a mass looting campaign. On Frey's advice, even the fireplaces were ripped out from the walls.[4]
Crates from the National Museum, Kraków packed for shipment to Germany
^ abDorota Folga-Januszewska (16 November 2005). "Historia Muzeum Narodowego" (PDF direct download, 94.1 KB). Muzeum Sztuk Pięknych i Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie 1862-2004. National Museum, Warsaw. Retrieved August 4, 2012.[permanent dead link]
^Polska, Wirtualna. "Wirtualna Polska - Wszystko co ważne - www.wp.pl". www.wp.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2014-07-16. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
^Prof. Jan Pruszyński; Polish Academy of Sciences (December 5, 2004). "Kulturkampf". Nr 1149 (in Polish). Tygodnik Wprost. Archived from the original on May 4, 2009. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
^Ministerstwo Kultury i Sztuki & Ministerstwo Odbudowy Kraju. "Warszawa Oskarża" (PDF). Przewodnik po wystawie urządzonej przez Biuro Odbudowy Stolicy wespół z Muzeum Narodowym w Warszawie (in Polish). Drukarnia Narodowa, M-01526. Archived from the original (PDF direct download, 91.8 KB from the Internet Archive) on July 15, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
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