How to steal a fortune

 

 In the mid 1990s, Mary Rainer Skala (Then Mary Smith) and her husband, Glenn Smith, then of Burke Virginia, (6900 Courageous Circle) were having marital problems and saw marriage therapist, Dr. Mark Rodney Lohman, (540-341-2856) at his office in Fairfax County. Mary Smith and Lohman, who was also married, immediately began an affair

(Lohman AKA on various loans and credit cards:  Mark Lowman, M R Lohman, Mark R Lohman and Mark Loman)

In October 2001,  Lohman (540-341-2856-Virginia Practicing license number 701000543)  and Rainer Skala, borrowed $500,000 from Lohman’s wife.(308 Tinsley Circle Shepherdstown WV 25443. 703-407-8153)

The purpose of the loan was to underwrite a business. Lohman and Rainer Skala pocket the money and told Mrs. Lohman that the company she was funding went bankrupt and her money was gone.

Rainer -Skala and Lohman purchased a condo with the money and invested some in the company which sold in 2012 for about $40 million. Rainer -Skala/Lohman’s cut was $5 million gross.

 

 Lohman convinced Glenn Smith, (Mary’s husband)  who is blind and currently lives in Fairfax County, that his blindness, combined with Lohman sales abilities, could create a profitable assistive technology company.

 In 1997 Rainer Skala and Glenn Smith  (7820 Baltusrol Blvd. Suite 230, Gainesville) and Lohman, opened Bartimaeus Group in McLean,  Virginia where the Lohman’s lived.

After the company became operation from government contracts, Rainer Skala divorced Glenn Smith in 2003. Glenn Smith learned in 2025 that Lohman and Mary Rainer Skala were involved

Rainer Skala and Lohman co-singed a loan for $500,000 from Lohman’s wife, (Rainer -Skala singed for $300,000, Lohman for $200,000) They pocketed the bulk of the money.

 They bought two new Lexus’s with matching license plates and, in July 25, 2003,  a condo in Mclean at1489 Chain Bridge Road in McLean.

At least a portion of the down payment money to purchase the McLean Condo came from the loan intended for Bartimaeus Group. Rainer-Skala and Lohman paid $306,755 for the condo and carried a mortgage of $245,404.00

Rainer-Skala refinanced the condo in 2005 and finally sold the unit in 2015 for $375,000.00 (#0294-12090202)

 Loman filed for Chapter 7 protection in Virginia state court (#case 0610252) and was granted protection on January 29, 2007. To be clear, this personal bankruptcy had nothing to do with the $500,000 loan to he and Rainer Skala.

The loan, the real estate, the cars, the living arrangements, are all a matter of public record.

 Lohman then moved in with Rainer-Skala, who, by this time, was also practicing marriage therapy with Lohman, from Bartimaeus’s office.( VCU MSW program 1992-1994)

Since Lohman’s wife assumed the company had gone belly up, in 2002, they changed the company name to Bart Group  and moved to a different building in the same complex. (From 1481 Chain Bridge Road in McLean to 1489 Chain Bridge Road in McLean)

 Unknown to his wife, Lohman lived, part time,  in the McLean Condo for several years and then followed his wife, who was mothering his two daughters as her own,  and in 2010 began another therapy practice in Warrenton (54 East Lee Street)

Lohman’s  wife wasn’t aware that Bartimaeus Group became Level Access in 2017 after an investment of $40 million from JMI Equity or that it  later merged with other tech companies in 2022.

The company remains in Tysons Corner under the name Level Access.

Rainer-Skala’s cut from the merger was about $5,000,000.00 ,gross, and she cleared another hundred and fifty grand from the sale of the McLean condo. She is no longer associated with Level Access.

Rainer Skala lived with John William Tuohy for twenty years in common law. Although she cheated with Lohman in the first year of the relationship, he forgave her. But the cheating went on from 2015 until 2025.

Lohman and Rainer Skala married and now reside in West Virginia (309 Tinsley Circle in Shepherdstown)  worth about $1.1 million. They have an additional $1.1 million with a money manager located in Des Moines, Iowa.

Rainer Skala is a marriage therapist with the Well Marriage Center, a nationwide firm.

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Edward Hopper, Room in Brooklyn, 1932. Oil on canvas.

 

In paintings we know well and many we don’t, as well as some enlightening works on paper and writings, the artist long described as a Realist is recast as the architect of his own personal fantasy metropolis. He dispenses almost entirely with street life and traffic, ignores skyscrapers and the Brooklyn Bridge, and inserts imaginary buildings where it suits him; he peers in at private apartments from elevated trains and surveys his own neighborhood from rooftops. He turns offices, restaurants and movie theaters into stages for just one or two actors. He paints windows and storefronts without glass, as if he could just reach in and touch the people and things inside.

   —Karen Rosenberg in the NY Times, Nov. 22, 2022

 

 

Art lovers

 

Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld

Camille Corot was much beloved during his lifetime for his ethereal, dreamy landscapes that often combined scenes from mythology with a very personal interpretation of nature observed. Claude Monet himself said, "There is only one master here: Corot."

Camille Corot was much beloved during his lifetime for his ethereal, dreamy landscapes that often combined scenes from mythology with a very personal interpretation of nature observed. Claude Monet himself said, "There is only one master here: Corot."

In this painting, the fabled musician Orpheus--who beguiled the Greek gods to allow him to retrieve his beloved wife, who had been fatally bitten by a snake--leads her tenderly from the underworld. In ancient times, it was believed that the deceased continued to exist as spirits, seen here gathered in small groups beneath the delicate trees. Corot, a great music lover, has imbued this work with a sense of melancholy lyricism that hints at the tragic end of the story: Orpheus loses Eurydice forever when he turns to look at her before reaching the world of the living.

The sense of filtered reality is enhanced by Corot's extraordinarily subtle use of color. He strikes a wistfully sweet tonal chord, carefully modulating a narrow range of grays, greens, and blues. Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld looks forward to the artist's signature paintings, the Souvenirs and Memoires, in which Corot removes all narrative elements and lets his landscapes stand as "pure" objects.

 

Staircase designed by Leonardo da Vinci, 1516.

 

Joseph Stella

 

 

Love it

 

X-scans done by the Museo del Prado portrait of Carlos II of Spain painted by Carreño de Miranda in 1681 also hides another work. The artist painted over an earlier portrait of the king when he was much younger.

 

Vincent Van Gogh at an outdoor bakery in eighteen ninety, enjoying a rare moment of tranquility

 

Hopper

 

Alicia Framis - Lost Astronaut, 2009. Performance

 

Wealthy U.S. Millennials and Gen Z Are Investing More in Alternative Assets Like Art

A new report by Bank of America finds that older and younger generations have very different ideas about the value of stocks and bonds versus alternative investment classes like art.

By Elisa Carollo • 06/21/24 7:00am

 

Much has changed since Bank of America (BAC) released its last Private Bank Study of Wealthy Americans report in 2022. With the youngest Baby Boomers approaching their 60th birthdays and a massive generational transfer of wealth already begun, the study revealed that older and younger generations have very different ideas about the value of stocks and bonds versus alternative investment classes like art.

The 2024 report reveals how Millennials and Gen Z are increasingly looking beyond the traditional markets to build and preserve wealth: alternative and ‘pleasure’ assets account for 17 percent of their portfolios, compared to 5 percent allocated by older investors. The study found that 65 percent of all respondents were interested in collectible assets, but among those under 44, it was 94 percent.

Millennials and Gen Z are at least two times more likely than older generations to collect watches (46 percent), wine or spirits (36 percent), rare or classic cars (32 percent), sneakers (30 percent) and antiques (30 percent). Additionally, younger wealthy Americans are far more likely to be “very interested” (18 percent) or “somewhat interested” (25 percent) in owning art when compared to wealthy Americans over 44, with only 2 percent “very interested” and 15 percent “somewhat interested.” The study also revealed that 93 percent of respondents plan to allocate more of their investment dollars to alternatives in the next few years.

When it comes to art in particular, older generations are now looking to pass their holdings to the next generation, with 6 percent of collectors 44 years of age or older saying it was “very likely” they would sell work from their art collections in the next year. “We’re living through a period of great social, economic and technological change alongside the greatest generational transfer of wealth in history,” said Katy Knox, president of Bank of America Private Wealth, in a statement.

We can identify this as occurring over the past two years, with significant art collections coming up for auction and some postwar artists experiencing disappointing results, with the classic white male artists now seen as less relevant and appealing to newer generations. Art market and auction professionals are increasingly thinking differently about the kinds of art that will pass the test of time and meet the changing tastes and sensibilities of the next generation of collectors.

A report conducted last year by Sotheby’s and ArtTactic found that Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) accounted for 40 percent of bids on $1 million-plus art in 2022, down from 48 percent in 2018. Last May, we saw relevant works by artists including Frank Stella and Richard Diebenkorn fail to meet expectations. Other underperforming lots included works by Georges Braque and Sam Francis, which were withdrawn before the auction, and Pablo Picasso’s magnificent Femme au chapeau (1939), which was estimated to sell for between $6 million and $8 million but failed to attract a buyer.

One looming concern is that art owned by members of the Boomer generation, which has been overrepresented among art buyers, won’t resonate with younger art collectors. The Bank of America report reveals Millennials and Gen Z are much more willing to dynamically think about art in their wealth management strategy, with 28 percent considering using art as collateral for loans, and when members of these generational cohorts inherit art, they’re much more likely to sell and then buy something that speaks more to their personal tastes.

It’s not just about the investment: emotional factors are also crucial drivers for the younger generations of collectors, and in the decisions of wealthy Millennials and Gen Z investors,  86 percent consider sentimental value in addition to economic value. Perhaps for this reason, they are also interested in philanthropy, even though this is more commonly associated with those who come from inherited wealth.

The Earliest Surviving Photograph of a Woman (Dorothy Catherine Draper) 1839

 

I love B&W

A tenant family on their porch, Mississippi, 1939.

Amsterdam 1930

Le violoncelle sous la pluie, Paris, 1957. Photographed by Robert Doisneau.

The Thames London by night, 1903.

 

Agatha Christie at 16-years-old in Paris, France_

 

A Roman gold ring with an engraved Carnelian gem which depicts a young man giving his dog a tasty snack, c. 3rd to 2nd century.

 

Head of anthropomorphic figurine, terracotta, Neolithic period, Vinca culture, around 5000 - 4500 BC, found at remains of Neolithic settlement at Medvednjak archaeological site in vicinity of Smederevska Palanka, central Serbia.

 

Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn created a gigantic pair of hands reaching out of Venice’s Grand Canal (2017)

 

Even some of the stuff in museums isn't art.

 

Zenos Frudakis.

 

Saul Steinberg

 

Jewel Tones

 

Ivan Markovic, sculpture en papierdog

 

Andy Warhol and Alfred Hitchcock

 

Art? What art?

 

I'd live there.

 

David Hockney transformed ordinary moments into extraordinary masterpieces.