Tag: Heirs

  • Georg Kolbe Museum to Restitute Nazi-Looted Sculpture to Heirs of Holocaust Victim

    A landmark sculpture by renowned German artist Georg Kolbe will be removed from public display in Berlin and returned to the heirs of the Jewish family who lost it under Nazi persecution. The 1922 work, Tänzerinnen-Brunnen (Dancers’ Fountain), stood for nearly five decades in the garden of the Georg Kolbe Museum and had become one read more

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  • Jewish Heirs File Suit in French Court Regarding Met’s Ownership of Pissarro Painting

    A painting by Camille Pissarro in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is under renewed scrutiny over the circumstances of its sale by its former owner, the department store magnate and art collector Max Julius Braunthal. As reported by the New York Times, seven of Braunthal’s heirs have filed suit in a French read more

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