ES-KAISER’S PICTURES

Evening Star, Issue 17085, 2 July 1919, Page 3

ES-KAISER’S PICTURES

WILL THEY BE BOLE? The former German Emperor owned hundreds of paintings, coming from the brushes of tiie world’s greatest masters, which hang upon the walls of the 65 palaces that belonged to' him. Thera is a possibility of the pictures, coming into the open market, the new democracy in Germany feeling that one of the first sources of revenue to meet financial claims cf the Allies may well coma from the properties of the Hohenzollerns, the nobility, and the junkers. Included in Wilhelm’s collection are no fewer than 19 undoubtedly genuine works by Xlubena, acknowledged as the greatest of Flemish painters. Five hundred thousand pounds would not purchase those pictures under ordinary conditions; indeed, their price might well run to nearer £1,000,000, for among them is that wonderful ‘ Holy Family,’ now 1c the palace of Sans Souci, near Berlin, also ‘ Mars and Venus,’ hanging on the walls at Kocnigaberg.. All of his galleries are rich in examples of the French romantic school, many of these works having been collected by Frederick the Great, who was so deep a lover of c> — 1 g French, from art to philosophy. xr.cr-? are at least 50 of the finest of this French school, and their price might run to almost any figure. Some rare examples of the older Gorman art and many of the Netherland and Italian masters fill out the the walls-of the many palaces.