Germany’s most important art collectors, the entrepreneur Reinhold Würth, criticized in the news magazine Der Spiegel Culture Minister Monika Grütters (CDU) and called its attempts to hamper the export of art in the rest of the European Economic Area, “small-minded”. (Read the full interview in the new mirror. Here)
Grütters working on an amendment to the Law on the Protection of Cultural Property. Würth replies the minister, you should try to get instead of a new German a common European law on the way: “Why do not you strengthen in this area the European idea”
One could then present a united front and deal better with non-European purchasers of local art treasures. Because it could not in fact be, “that institutions such as the Getty Museum in California wegkaufen the whole German cultural property”.
note on the cultural list a “partial expropriation”
The proposed amendment comes on art owners to continue to not only permit an expense when they send work abroad, there are also more objects than previously be entered on a list of nationally valuable cultural heritage – they could then not be sold abroad.
The anger of many other collectors and dealers on the related impairment he could understand, says the art lovers Würth. He had pointed out at the Cultural Foundation of the countries that it is “tantamount to a partial expropriation if too many plants end up on the heritage list”. Also, the value of his own art holdings would fall by a double-digit million amount.
Würth has almost 17,000 works of art, a selection he presents on 11 September at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. So far five works from his collection on the protection list are noted, including the legendary “Schutzmantelmadonna” of the German Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger, who is also the most expensive ever traded in Germany paintings.
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