Recapitulation dated 4 September 1946 of the events surrounding the theft, recycling and recovery of Schloss 92 between May 1945 and 30 August 1946 (document)

Frau Neuner, Hindenburgstr. 39/III [at that time she lived at Gabelsbergerstrasse 15/II], met a man on a bench in a Munich park who traded her clothes for a painting (Schloss 92, by van der Helst) Frau Neuner consulted with a well-known local art dealer, Hellmut Lüdke, Pilotystrasse 10/II, Munich, in the summer of 1945. On 8 July 1945 he wrote to her that the paintings were of good quality and that they bore markings which might attest to the possibility that they were stolen.
Frau Neuner sold Schloss 92 and four other paintings to Frau L. von Parseval, Wormsestr. 3, Munich, in exchange for a rug. In spring 1946, Frau von Parseval then sold the painting to Ludwig Karl, Westendstr. 17, Munich, and co-owner of Ruf auction house, in exchange for art objects. Frau L. von Parseval produced on 15 June 1946 a certificate of authenticity and a document attesting to the fact that the painting had been in private hands in Bavaria long before the war.

Then Karl turned around and sold the picture, half cash and half objects, to Heinz Bohner of Dallarmistr. 29, Munich. Later in the spring of 1946, Bohner swapped the van der Helst for a painting by von Hügel with art dealer Emil Fussgen, Platzl, 4 Munich. Christian Kellerer, Ungererstr. 66, Munich, sold Schloss 92 to Mr. Kautz, a Swiss citizen living in Engen/Hegau in the French zone of Occupation of Germany. Edgar Breitenbach confiscated Schloss 92 from him.