Adolphe Schloss


Adolphe Schloss was a French art collector.
Schloss was born to a Jewish family in Furth, Lower Bavaria. He married Mathilde Lucie Haas and together they collected 333 works of art from the Northern and Southern Netherlands that became notable as the Ad. Schloss collection between 1900 and World War II. They held a gallery at Salon Adolphe Schloss, residence 38, avenue Henri Martin, Paris. After Adolphe's death there, his collection became the property of his wife Lucie, who died in 1938 and the collection was left to their children Marguerite, Henry, Juliette and Lucien. They moved the collection to Château de Chambon, Laguenne for safekeeping during the war, where it was looted by the Vichy government in 1943. Of the 333 objects, only 230 were actually offered to Hitler's Führer museum and 49 were saved for France and given to the Louvre. After the war all were lost, but gradually 148 objects could be rediscovered.