{"id":56584,"date":"2025-05-23T15:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=56584"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:19:49","slug":"klimt-portrait-subject-of-smuggling-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/klimt-portrait-subject-of-smuggling-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"Klimt Portrait Subject Of Smuggling Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_56585\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GustavKlimtsportraitofPrinceWilliamNiiNorteyDowuona.Credit.WK\u2013WienerroitherKohlbacher.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56585\" class=\"wp-image-56585 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GustavKlimtsportraitofPrinceWilliamNiiNorteyDowuona.Credit.WK\u2013WienerroitherKohlbacher-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"A 19th century portrait of a black man with a toga-like garment.\" width=\"244\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GustavKlimtsportraitofPrinceWilliamNiiNorteyDowuona.Credit.WK\u2013WienerroitherKohlbacher-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GustavKlimtsportraitofPrinceWilliamNiiNorteyDowuona.Credit.WK\u2013WienerroitherKohlbacher-821x1024.jpg 821w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GustavKlimtsportraitofPrinceWilliamNiiNorteyDowuona.Credit.WK\u2013WienerroitherKohlbacher-768x958.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GustavKlimtsportraitofPrinceWilliamNiiNorteyDowuona.Credit.WK\u2013WienerroitherKohlbacher.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona<\/em> by Gustav Klimt<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Earlier this year, a rare portrait by Gustav Klimt made headlines and is now under scrutiny due to a provenance hiccup. And this is not <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/record-breaking-klimt-falls-through\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the portrait of Fr\u00e4ulein Lieser<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. This is the Austrian master\u2019s <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, exhibited at this year\u2019s TEFAF Maastricht.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This year at the prestigious Dutch art fair, the Viennese gallery Wienerrothier &amp; Kohlbacher (W&amp;K) exhibited the portrait of the African prince with a price tag of \u20ac15 million. The painting was believed to have been lost during the Second World War and has been highly sought after by experts and collectors alike. The subject was a prince and ambassador of the Ga people of what is now the Greater Accra region of Ghana. In 1897, he traveled to Vienna to participate in an exhibition focusing on the people and customs of the West African people. However, the show mistakenly identified the prince as a member of the Ashanti rather than the Ga. This is an example of a rather strange and insensitive practice in Europe where <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lejournal.cnrs.fr\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/asset_image_full\/public\/assets\/images\/ymago_pp0021545_02_rec_72dpi.jpg?itok=oKX2f2rb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">colonized people would become the focus of \u201chuman zoos\u201d<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was a disturbingly common practice at international gatherings like world\u2019s fairs. The 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, for example, had a \u201cNegro Village\u201d, where organizers brought four hundred African people to France to live in a model village. Regardless, the African visitors to Vienna became the talk of the town, invited to all sorts of social events. Both Klimt and his friend Franz Matsch painted portraits of the prince, with <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/42\/Franz_von_Matsch.-_William_Nii_Nortey_Dowuona%2C_mnha72585_157459.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the Matsch painting<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> now on display at Luxembourg\u2019s National Museum of Archaeology, History &amp; Art. According to art historian Alfred Weidinger, Klimt\u2019s portrait marks a turning point in his style. The portrait\u2019s background features floral motifs, indicating that the artist was on his way toward embracing decorative elements in his portraiture, culminating in <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gustav-klimt.com\/assets\/img\/paintings\/The-Kiss.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">his Golden Phase<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">W&amp;K acquired the Klimt portrait in 2023 when a collector from Austria brought it to them from Hungary. The work was in terrible condition, but gallery specialists eventually spotted the Klimt estate stamp. The gallery acquired the painting and performed extensive restoration before its Maastricht appearance. They also <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">reached out to<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the descendants of the last known owner before its disappearance. Ernestine Klein purchased the painting after the artist\u2019s estate <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was auctioned off<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in 1923. Being Jewish, Klein escaped Vienna for Monaco in 1938 following Germany\u2019s annexation of Austria. After that, there is little information about the painting\u2019s whereabouts. However, W&amp;K set up a restitution deal with the Klein descendants before bringing it to Maastricht, ensuring they would get a portion of the profits should the painting sell. But months after it first became newsworthy, the portrait is now the subject of extensive debates over how W&amp;K acquired it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This past weekend, the Hungarian weekly newspaper <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Heti Vil\u00e1ggazdas\u00e1g<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> (<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">HVG<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">) claimed that the painting was previously in Hungary before W&amp;K acquired it and <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">that <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">it<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was smuggled<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> out of the country to bring it to Austria. However, the Austrian newspaper <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Der Standard<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> published a rebuttal, claiming that the painting did receive approval from the relevant authorities to <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be exported<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. W&amp;K also commented, dismissing <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">HVG\u2019s<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> claims as nothing but \u201can insinuation\u201d. The <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">HVG<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> article indicates that after Ernestine Klein escaped to Monaco, the portrait found its way to Hungary, where it remained in a private collection between the 1950s and 2021. However, the reports that the Klimt <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was smuggled<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> out of Hungary can only <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be traced<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to a Facebook post from Hungarian art researcher P\u00e9ter Molnos. Perhaps jumping the gun a bit, Molnos expressed his suspicion that a rare Klimt portrait could simply turn up again, leading him to suspect that someone illegally took the painting out of the country. Yes, it would normally take more time for cultural authorities to examine a painting of such significance before granting an export license. However, the Klimt portrait was in such poor condition that specialists likely could not make out the estate stamp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">W&amp;K stated that while they have not yet sold the painting, they are in negotiations with an unnamed museum.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, a rare portrait by Gustav Klimt made headlines and is now under scrutiny due to a provenance hiccup. And this is not the portrait of Fr\u00e4ulein Lieser. This is the Austrian master\u2019s Portrait of Prince William Nii &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/klimt-portrait-subject-of-smuggling-accusations\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":56585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[259,384,367,1364,871,120,523,9,386,32],"class_list":["post-56584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-19th-century-austrian","tag-19th-century-european","tag-crime-and-punishment","tag-hungary","tag-klimt","tag-modern-art","tag-portrait","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-tales-from-the-dark-side","tag-the-dark-side"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Klimt Portrait Subject Of Smuggling Accusations - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A newspaper has claimed Gustav Klimt&#039;s portrait of an African prince, which made headlines at TEFAF Maastricht, was smuggled out of Hungary.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/klimt-portrait-subject-of-smuggling-accusations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Klimt Portrait Subject Of Smuggling Accusations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A newspaper has claimed Gustav Klimt&#039;s portrait of an African prince, which made headlines at TEFAF Maastricht, was smuggled out of Hungary.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/klimt-portrait-subject-of-smuggling-accusations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-23T19:19:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GustavKlimtsportraitofPrinceWilliamNiiNorteyDowuona.Credit.WK\u2013WienerroitherKohlbacher.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1248\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/klimt-portrait-subject-of-smuggling-accusations\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/klimt-portrait-subject-of-smuggling-accusations\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nathan Scheer\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1d33fd182b28afdad8fc3548ffe6bdc4\"},\"headline\":\"Klimt Portrait Subject Of Smuggling Accusations\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-23T19:19:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/klimt-portrait-subject-of-smuggling-accusations\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":723,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/klimt-portrait-subject-of-smuggling-accusations\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/GustavKlimtsportraitofPrinceWilliamNiiNorteyDowuona.Credit.WK\u2013WienerroitherKohlbacher.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"19th Century Austrian\",\"19th Century European\",\"Crime and Punishment\",\"Hungary\",\"Klimt\",\"Modern Art\",\"portrait\",\"Rehs Galleries - Art World News\",\"tales from the dark side\",\"The Dark Side of the Art World\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Rehs 19th &amp; 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