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Maximilian Kellner (5 February 1869 Groß Meseritsch / Velké Meziříčí, Moravia – 25 December 1940) was a merchant and art collector.

Life
Born in Moravia, Kellner lived from 1932 with his wife Katharina, known as Käthe (née Pollatschek, born in 1884), at Praterstraße 17, in the 2nd district of Vienna.

The Kellner family company, founded in 1912, was headquarted in Rossitz (Rosice) near Brünn (Brno). Maximilien and his brothers Arnold (1864-1939 ) and Heinrich Kellner (born around 1862) werepartners.

Maximilian had an extensive art collection focusing on 17th-century Dutch painters such as Aelbert Cuyp, Dirck Hals, Jacob Ochtervelt, Adriaen van Ostade, Jan Steen and Gerard Terborch, as well as miniatures and some works by Austrian artists such as Hugo Darnaut, Johann Michael Neder and Olga Wisinger-Florian.

Part of the collection - the paintings, some furniture, sculptures and works of applied art - was sold at auction at the beginning of December 1929 by the Auktionshaus Rudolf Lepke in Berlin.

Nazi era
After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in March 1938, Maximilian and Käthe Kellner had to declare their assets to the Nazi authorities due to of their Jewish origins. Käthe Kellner's asset declaration included a list of art objects. Maximilian Kellner died in December 1940 in Vienna.

Restitution claims for Nazi looted art
Restitution example

Restitution decision source

Restitution decision Austria