2 days ago · A painting found at a Minnesota garage sale is an unknown work by Vincent van Gogh titled 'Elimar,' according to findings from the LMI Group.

Egilmar I[1] (c. 1060–1112) was the first Count of Oldenburg and thus founder of the House of Oldenburg. He reigned from c. 1091 to 1108. [2]

2 days ago · A team of roughly 20 experts were assembled by the New York-based art-research firm LMI Group International to study the possible van Gogh.

1 day ago · According to the report, van Gogh painted Elimar in 1889, during his first year at the sanitarium in southern France.

16 hours ago · The Van Gogh Museum denied attribution to a long-lost portrait bought from a garage sale, leaving one research firm 'puzzled.'

2 days ago · ‘Elimar,’ Van Gogh’s Translations and the Persistent Myth of the Multi-Million-Dollar Garage Sale Find LMI Group has spent more than $30,000 authenticating a mysterious translation of ...

The first known count of Oldenburg was Elimar I (d. 1108). Elimar's descendants appear as vassals, though sometimes rebellious ones, of the dukes of Saxony; but they attained the dignity of princes of the empire when the emperor Frederick I dismembered the Saxon duchy in 1180.

Count Elimar I was first mentioned in 1091. The ancestral home of the family is Oldenburg Castle. In the 12th century, Rastede Monastery near Oldenburg became their house monastery and later their country seat to this day. Marriages of medieval counts of Oldenburg paved the way for their heirs to become kings of various Scandinavian kingdoms.

Egilmar I was the first Count of Oldenburg and thus founder of the House of Oldenburg. He reigned from c. 1091 to 1108.

Elimar is the patrilineal ancestor of the House of Oldenburg, which notably has ruled as kings of Denmark continuously since 1448, and also as dukes, kings or emperors of several German states, Norway, Sweden, Russia and Greece.