Silvano Lodi

Italian-born Silvano Lodi (1924) came to Germany shortly before the end of the war in 1945. He worked as a waiter in the Nazi-elite restaurant Platterhof in the Obersalzberg region and moved to Munich in 1946. Lodi opened a gallery for Old Masters – Brienner Galerie in Munich in June 1963, situated at Briennerstr. 12, later at Wittelsbacherplatz 1 (1965) under the name “Galerie Lodi KG.”

Six artworks looted from the Adolphe Schloss Collection were offered by Lodi in the postwar years: they came from the series dedicated to the twelve months by Abel Grimmer (Schloss German no. 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74).     Sources and links: Entry of the Grimmer artworks in the database of the French Foreign Ministery: https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/sites/archives_diplo/schloss/tableauxG/tableaux62.html?provenance=collection [April]; https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/sites/archives_diplo/schloss/tableauxG/tableaux63.html?provenance=collection [May]; https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/sites/archives_diplo/schloss/tableauxG/tableaux64.html?provenance=collection [June]

Weltkunst, advertisements from October 10, 1963 - December 15, 1965 Brienner Galerie Lodi, 1965, Ausstellung Landschaftsmalerei Niederländischer Meister des sechzehnten und siebzehnten Jahrhunderts, vom 1. Oktober bis 15. November 1965 Silvano Lodi, Ausstellung Alter Meister, vom 6. November bis 24. November 1969. Reinhard Müller-Mehlis “Die Sammlung Silvano Lodi,” published in the Weltkunst of January 1, 1985, nr. 1, p. 44 John T. Spike “Ricordando la natura Morta lombarda e un pranzo con Silvano Lodi nel 1982,“ in: About art online, May 24 2020 Weltkunst, October 15, 1963, p. 22: article by Hertha Wellensiek: “Behagen an der kleinen Welt. Zu einer neuen Münchener Galerie.“ Weltkunst, November 1, 1965, p. 1033 f.: article by Hertha Wellensiek “Wenig Resonanz für die niederländischen Kleinmeister”