Telegram from 1939 to Hildebrand Gurlitt from the museum manager Schmidt Bid 6,000 Swiss francs in connection with purchases and the auction in Lucerne in 1939 by the Fischer Gallery for paintings and sculptures by modern masters from German museums in the exhibition Zerissene Moderne Torn Modernity The Basel Acquisitions of Degenerate Art in the Kunstmuseum Basel Switzerland. The Torn Modernity exhibition sheds light on the history of the Basel collection from the perspective of museum provenance research, degenerate art from National Socialist cultural policy, and the purchase of works of art by the then director of the house, Georg Schmidt. Museum provenance return
