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Feb 24, 2021 Winter by Gari Melchers courtesy of Gari Melchers Home and Studio
In 1900, Rudolph Mosse purchased the painting, Winter by Gari Melchers at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. Mosse was a prominent publisher and philanthropist in Germany building an empire that made his family one of the wealthiest in Berlin.
When Rudolph died in 1920, his sole heir was his daughter Felicia Lachmann-Mosse and her husband Hans Lachmann-Mosse became the publisher of the company s flagship newspaper, the
Berliner Tageblatt. The newspaper was an outspoken critic of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler, which made the Lachmann-Mosse family a symbol of the Jewish press. In 1933, three months after Hitler s rise to power, Hans-Lachmann Mosse and many of the company s leading Jewish staff members were forced to flee the country. The Nazi regime took control of the family property, including the Rudolph Mosse Company, the