The Hans Sachs collection that the Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe ordered in March be returned to the Sachs heirs will be put up for auction in New York. The collection had more than 12,000 posters by artist that included Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ludwig Hohlwein, Lucian Bernhard and Jules Cheret. The Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, a museum of German history, held for several decades parts of a poster collection was seized from Sachs in 1938. After his arrest and incarceration, Sachs fled the country with his family.
As Catherine Hickley of Bloomberg reports, Guernsey’s Auctioneers & Brokers will hold the sales. The first of three is scheduled to begin January 18, 2013. Arlan Ettinger, president of Guernsey, estimates the sales at around $5.8 million.
