After the death of his father in 1918 Otto took over the company in its second generation , due to the difficult economic situation the business was suffering . After the Machtergreifung 1933 , the business volume increased because of the demand for prestige items . In the Kristallnacht in 1938 , the shop windows were smashed and Otto Bernheimer was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp . Through the intervention of the Mexican government - Bernheimer was Honorary Consul of Mexico - he and his sons were released . The family emigrated across the whole world . Otto Bernheimer was forced to purchase a rundown coffee plantation in Venezuela from a relative of Hermann Göring . The Aryanization of " Art Dealer Otto Bernheimer " ( later the " Munich art market society " and " camaraderie of artists " ) led to the confiscation of all property including a collection of German and French paintings from the 19th century
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Otto Bernheimer