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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 ...
After initially arguing that financial troubles unrelated to Nazi persecution caused the sale, [50] Berlin restituted the painting to the heirs. [51] painting by Wilhelm von Schadow's The Artist’s Children, Max Stern v Dusseldorf [52] In 2023 the city of Düsseldorf agreed on a settlement with the heirs of Max Stern. [53]
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. A New Orleans ...
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.
This book also reveals often-ignored aspects of the Nazi plan to rid Europe of its Jewish population. Photographs showing warehouses of furniture and household items from pianos to children's toys, all of which had been looted from Jewish families, symbolize the reach and extent of the Holocaust. Museums and mines full of stolen paintings show ...
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 ...
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 ...
After the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, 61,000 plundered artworks recovered by the Allied Monuments Men in Germany were returned to France which was responsible for restituting them to their original owners. 45,000 artworks were returned to their owners, while others were entrusted to the custody of the national museums.