Now sold Peter Weiss art: It feels extremely twice

the Sale means that Peter Weiss's wife, set designer and artist Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, 90, of almost all of his paintings that have been in her possession.

When the DN hit her before the showdown, she explains that there are a number of reasons that they are now going to be sold.

" It feels extremely twice, so that I in principle would have been able to maintain the rest that I have left. But first, you must paintings be managed, particularly oil paintings, and they feel not good to be in a warehouse. And if, as I hope, are bought up by collectors and museums in Germany, for example, so they will also be able to be displayed to the public, " she says.

where I can't count on a long future. My children, who are adults, must be able to do anything other than to manage their parents ' work.

Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss also has economic motives to sell; when some of the stolen paintings were found in a tjuvgömma called the insurance company a large sum for buy-backs that she could not afford to buy back their paintings. Therefore, she came to agree with Bukowski that are allowed to sell them.

This gouache dated 1955, is one of Peter Weiss ' works are sold by Bukowskis. Photo: Bukowskis

For most, otherwise Peter Weiss is mainly known as a playwright and author, but in fact he is before his international breakthrough with plays like ”Marat/Sade” and ”Rannsakningen” and literary works such as ”aesthetics of Resistance” in the first place devoted themselves to painting a picture. He was with Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss's words, ”a literary experimentation of the artist”, where the painting was one of his ways of expression.

Peter Weiss Photo: ullstein bild - Wolfgang Kunz/IBL, the Ullstein picture

In the late 1930s he joined a year at the art Academy in Prague, but when Nazi germany in 1938 occupied the Czech Sudetlandet he fled to Switzerland, spent time with the author, Hermann Hesse, and continued with his painting.

in 1939, he joined his family, which previously moved to Sweden, cartoon pattern for his father's textile factory in Alingsås, before he got into the Swedish konstnärskretsarna through the first wife Helga Henschen.

at the auction house all from the 1930s to the 1950s, the earliest painted of a 15-year-old Peter Weiss.

In the early 1950s, released the Peter Weiss painting and changed its direction.

"When I met Peter in 1952, he was the artist who transferred to the film," says Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss.

" His films totalsågades of the criticism. If one of them, which was shown at the cinema the Mirror, wrote Jurgen Schildt, should hoist the pestflagg. I think Peter was too early to make surrealist films.

in Addition, wanted to Bonniers no longer give out his books. The last work from Gerard Bonnier with the words: ”We can't give out pornography.” (Much later gave the Bonniers by the publisher Magnus Bergh Peter Weiss again, then with the "aesthetics of Resistance").

In this situation, the abandoned Peter Weiss the Swedish language and went on to write in German, which proved to be successful.

" He wrote in a kind of förkrigstyska from before the time of the Third reich, which no longer existed, which proved to be a success in a Germany divided between East and West.

In the early 1960s wrote the Peter Weiss play ”Marat/Sade”, the royal Dramatic theatre's great names, Alf Sjöberg and Ingmar Bergman rejected as ”unplayable”. When it was put up in Berlin, it became a huge success.

" It was a breakthrough for Peter and me. And Bergman bad actually later to apologize, says Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss.

Ingmar Bergman, Gunilla Palmstierna Weiss and Peter Weiss during the work with the play ”Rannsakningen”. Photo: Beata Bergström

the Story of the stolen paintings, over 400 in number, is similar, in certain respects, a kriminalthriller, which has rolled on for over ten years.

Some of the works are found, but the vast majority are still missing.

She claims to know who has the stolen paintings, but there is not enough evidence to come to them. And she believes that art coup was an inside job; not many people knew of that art worth several million crowns were stored in a former bomb shelter on Artillerigatan in Stockholm.

Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss. Photo: ADAM DAVER

the Works of one so world-renowned artist is also unmarketable in the art market. During the more than ten years that have passed, nor none of the stolen works have appeared in any auction house.

in the old shelter. In the beginning of 2008, she discovered that the two heavy hänglåsen for järndörrarna had welded up and was replaced. The whole of Peter Weiss's life work, which he left when he passed away in 1982, as well as some other art – including Siri Derkert and more of Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss scene models, was gone.

Then did not happen much in a long time, until late summer of 2016, when a person contacted Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss and claimed to have information about where the paintings were hidden. The man, a 72-year-old art dealer, previously punished, it turned out, came home to her, and had with him a camera with photos on several of the charts.

the Man wanted a deal on the thieves behalf, and wished that I would write over the artwork in a deed of gift to a nonprofit organization.

" But we didn't know what art it would apply. A proposal was that we would “give” two works, one of Siri Derkert and the other which later proved to come from another theft, which was likely worth upwards of two million, in exchange for Peters, all the works.

in december 2017, made the police a crackdown in a second-hand store at the association Tjuvgods. It is a non-profit association in which former drug addicts and criminals are given the opportunity to come back into society.

A dozen of Peter Weiss ' the stolen paintings were found there, and three people linked to the association of detainees suspected of aggravated receiving stolen goods.

the district court sentenced two men – one of them the man who contacted Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss – to the prison. Konststölden was, however, only a part of the target, which mainly touched the rough drug - and arms trafficking.