Kurt Feldhäusser and false provenances at the MoMa

Some restitution cases for artworks that passed through the Nazi Kurt Feldhäusser on their way to the Museum of Modern Art in New York include:

- Artillerymen in the Shower (Kirchner) which had been owned by Alfred Flechtheim and which had been given a false provenance, restituted after litigation by the Guggenheim which had acquired it from the MoMA

- Over Vitebsk (Chagall) which (also) had been owned by Alfred Flechtheim and which also had been given a false provenance, restituted secretly by the MoMa to the Matthiesen heirs in exchange for a $4 million payment, after initially refusing restitution on the grounds that repayment of a debt and not Nazis had been involved ("MoMA, in its records on its website, said the gallery had turned over the Chagall painting to a major German bank in 1934 “in exchange for debt"- NYT)

- Sand Hills (Kirchner) which had been owned by Max Fischer and which had been given (sigh) a false provenance, restituted by the MoMa after the museum had initially refused mistakenly confusing the painting with another that had been seized from a German museum due to a sequence of errors

Kurt Feldhäusser was a Nazi Party member linked to art looted from German Jews starting in 1933 or seized from museums in the Nazi  "Degenerate Art" campaign of 1937-8.

Advisory Commission on the Return of Cultural Property Seized as a Result of Nazi persecution: recommendations in searchable text

This is a searchable text-only copy of recommendations originally published by the Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property  (Beratende Kommission NS-Raubgut)

• Robert Graetz
• Kurt and Else Grawi
• Heinrich Rieger
• Max Fischer
• Dr. and Mrs. Max Stern
• Max J. Emden
• Max und Margarethe Rüdenberg
• Felix Hildesheimer
• Alfred Salomon 
• Alfred Flechtheim
• Ludwig Traube
• Eduard L. Behrens
• Clara Levy geb. Isaak
• J.S. Goldschmidt, I. Rosenbaum und Z.M. Hackenbroch 
• Paul Westheim
• Alexander Lewin
• Julius und Clara Freund

Heirs of Max Fischer v. the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg - German Advisory Commission

 Advisory Commission

on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property
Office: Seydelstr. 18, 10117 Berlin

Recommendation of the Advisory Commission in the case of the heirs of Max Fischer v. the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg