9. 14 Gustav Klimt Paintings Destroyed In Schloss Immendorf Fire – 1945
Serena Lederer was a wealthy Viennese art patron had collected fourteen of Klimt’s paintings. Lederer sent her collection to the Schloss Immendorf Museum for safe keeping in 1943. Nevertheless, the collection was lost when the retreating Nazi party set Schloss Immendorf on fire in 1945. Works ranging from 1898’s “Musik II” to 1917’s “Gastein,” as well as the famed Vienna Ceiling Paintings, were destroyed in the fire.