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Claim for restitution to Public Galery of Art, New Zealand, for five paintings in the 'école de Macchiaioli. After an amicable settlement in April 1999, three paintings remained in the museum and two were placed in an auction. The proceeds of the sale were divided between the museum and the heirs. [7] [8]
Pieces of art looted by the Nazis can still be found in Russian/Soviet [49] and American institutions: the Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed a list of 393 paintings that have gaps in their provenance during the Nazi Era, the Art Institute of Chicago has posted a listing of more than 500 works "for which links in the chain of ownership for the ...
The chalk-painting "Bord de Mer," by Claude Monet, created in 1865. The painting was stolen from Adalbert Parlagi by the Nazis in 1940, and returned to his descendants by the New Orleans FBI ...
In 1940 Lange had sales of over 2 million Reichsmark, a quarter of which was a result of the forced sale of Jewish property. By the end of 1943, Lange had held 35 auctions for about 15,000 items. Lange moved auctions to Vienna in October 1943 to avoid Allied airstrikes. [4] German museums, art dealers and art collectors acquired art from Lange.
The Monet was then purchased at auction by a Nazi art dealer and disappeared in 1941. More than 70 years later, the painting resurfaced at a 2016 impressionism exhibition in France.
In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...
Other items were found to have belonged to Jewish collectors residing in Germany, although provenance gaps persisted despite extensive research. [3] These findings culminated in the exhibition 'Concealed Histories: Uncovering the Story of Nazi Looting', where the V&A sought to share the histories of these Jewish collectors with visitors.
For Jewish heirs seeking to reclaim art stolen from their families during the Holocaust, decades passed before the extent of Nazi looting in Europe was widely acknowledged and documented and steps ...