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Josef Blauhorn (19 June 1883 Vienna – 1944 London) was an Austrian Jewish lawyer and refugee from the Nazis

Trained as a lawyer, Blauhorn was employed by the Vienna bank of the Gutmann Brother from 1916 to 1939, when he escaped Austria after the Anscluss with Nazi Germany. He was managing director of Gebrüder Gutmann and a partner in Rothschild as well as a board member of Hanf-, Jute- und Textil-Industrie AG and of the supervisory board of Österreichische Waffenfabriks-Gesellschaft and a partner in the Vienna trading company M. G. Pinter & Co.

He married Auguste ("Gusti", née Koppel, 1886–1961) with whom he hadthree children Karl Max, Anna Lisbeth and Hans Georg. The family lived in Vienna's 3rd district.

Art Collection
Blauhorn's art collection consisted of about 200 works, mostly by Austrian nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists.

Nazi era
The paintings were confiscated by the Gestapo and handed over to the Chief Finance President in Vienna "for safekeeping". (1942)

Claims and restitutions
In 2012, the Belvedere Museum in Vienna restituted two paintings "The Magi" by Leopold Kupelwieser and "The Valley of Chamonix" by Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld.