Leopold Weinstein
Leopold Weinstein (born April 6, 1884; died November 8, 1948 Vienna) was an Austrian businessman and art collector  persecuted by the Nazis because Jewish. Life 
Weinstein was born on April 6, 1884 in Vienna where he owned "Leopold Weinstein & Co.", a manufacturer of  glassware and lighting, located at Vienna VII, Hermanngasse 18, and collected art. Art collection 
The Leopold Weinstein collection included works by Waldmüller, Rudolf von Alt, Schindler, Ranftl, Pettenkofen as well as Jettel, Windhager and Hampel. Nazi era 
Of Jewish origin, Weinstein was persecuted by the Nazis after Austria's Anschluss with Nazi Germany in 1938. Weinstein fled to London and returned to Vienna after the end of the war. In 1938 Franz Bock took over the provisional management of the company "Leopold Weinstein & Co. In 1938 some paintings from Weinstein's collection were "seized", among others one by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and von Alt. These were consigned to the Wiener Städtische Sammlung and the Landesmuseum Joanneum. in January 1939 Karl Wagner, director of the Städtische Sammlungen / Historical Museum of Vienna requested art objects from the Aryanized collections of Leopold Weinstein, as well as from the collections of Oskar Bondy,  Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer and Serena Lederer. Postwar 
After the war Weinstein returned to Vienna. Restitution claims were filed for the artworks stolen by the Nazis and their collaborators in Vienna. August von Pettenkofen's Gypsy hut in the Puszta was restituted to Weinstein's heirs on November 23, 2004

Readings 
 Source Lillie, Sophie, "Was einmal war - Handbuch der entteigneten Kunstsammlungens Wiens," Vienna 2003, p. 1295 f.
 Restitutionsbericht 2007 - Kunst

See also 
 The Holocaust in Austria
 Vugesta
 List of Claims for Restitution for Nazi-looted Art

References 

1884 births
1948 deaths
Austrian Jews
Jewish art collectors
Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss