In the last two posts we’ve looked at the earliest known and most recent provenance of our painting The Marriage Trap.
We also know that in 1947 the painting was processed at the Munich Central Collecting Point, or MCCP.
This means that the painting was looted by the Nazis during World War II.
The MCCP was one of the offices set up by the Allied forces at the end of World War II to process the repositories of Nazi-confiscated works of art. These stashes were hidden in Germany and Austria. Managed by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Service (MFA&A) of the military, they were staffed by soldiers and art historians that became known as the Monuments Men. Collecting points were also set up in Marburg, Wiesbaden, and Offenbach. The one in Munich, however, was the largest. The offices there handled a wide variety of material such as painting, sculpture, textiles, and metalwork.