page_title: Theodor Fischer (auctioneer)
section_title: Major collections sold by Theodor Fischer
hierarchical_section_title: Theodor Fischer (auctioneer) / Major collections sold by Theodor Fischer
caption_attribution_description: William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper mogul
context_page_description: Theodor Fischer was a Swiss art dealer and auctioneer in Lucerne who after the First World War built a highly successful firm of auctioneers that dominated the Swiss art market. In 1939 he was the auctioneer at the infamous Grand Hotel auction of "degenerate art" removed from German museums by the Nazis. During the Second World War he played a key part in the trading of art looted by the Germans from occupied countries.
context_section_description: Note: This list excludes the Second World War era.
  The Count Harrach Collection
  The Chillingworth and Wessner Collections (1922)
  The Grossherzoglich Sächsische Arms Collection of the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1927)
  The Collection of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1928)
  The Rütschi Collection (1931)
  The estate of Dr Burger
  The Erbach Collection of Arms and Armour (1931)
  The Freiherr von Kleist Collection
  The Collection of Arms and Armour of Duke Viktor von Ratibor
  The Prince of Thun Armoury (1933)
  The Arts-and-Crafts Collection of Dr Kodella (1934)
  The Hunting Cabinet of Reichsgraf von Kaunitz
  The Bühler Collection (1935)
  The Randolph Hearst Collection of Arms and Armour (1939)
  The estate of Countess Tiele-Winkler (1951)
caption: William Randolph Hearst, for whom Fischer sold arms and armour.
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