Mrs Kurt Riezler (née Käthe Liebermann, daughter of Max Liebermann) was previously mis-identified as Liezler
Why does it matter? Because her family was persecuted by the Nazis and she herself was a refugee.
EDOUARD MANET
Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property
Office: German Lost Art Foundation, Humboldtstraße 12, 39112 Magdeburg, Germany
Recommendation of the Advisory Commission in the case of Rüdenberg Heirs vs. the City of Hanover
Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property
Recommendation of the Advisory Commission in the case of Dr. and Mrs. Max Stern Foundation v. Bavarian State Painting Collections
Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of National Socialist persecution, especially Jewish property
Office: Seydelstraße 18, 10117 Berlin
Recommendation of the Advisory Commission in the case of Heirs of A. B. ./. Bavarian State Painting Collections
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
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 Heinrich Rieger v. The City of Cologne
"...the Grünbaum heirs contend that Mr. Kornfeld’s account is a fiction and that the documents are forgeries. They say it is suspicious that he did not identify Ms. Lukacs-Herzl as his supplier until nearly two decades after her death, and they contest the validity of the signatures on the records, pointing to places where Ms. Lukacs-Herzl’s name is misspelled or written in pencil...."
- William D. Cohan, Jewish Heirs Take on an Art Foundation That Rights Nazi Wrongs, NYT, Aug. 26, 2018
read more at: http://archive.is/mNym6#selection-825.517-825.541
Jewish Heirs Take on an Art Foundation That Rights Nazi Wrongs by By William D. Cohan, Aug. 26, 2018
The JDCRP Foundation, “Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project Stiftung”, headquartered in Berlin, is the legal administrator of the project and is subject to the German Civil Code. The Foundation embodies the governing framework for the project, and ensures its financial viability. It is comprised of a Board of Trustees, an Executive Board and an Advisory Council.
Reactions to claims for Nazi-looted art, forced sales and duress sales vary.
Some museums or private collectors, when they learn that a prized artwork belonged to an art collector who was plundered by the Nazis, immediately set out to research the history and return the artwork to the family.
Others fight with every weapon in their arsenal, not hesitating to make up perfectly false stories to explain how the artwork landed in their collection or even to sue the claimants.
Question: can one identify the different responses and classify each response accordingly?
This post is a first attempt to list a few of the tactics observed in the past:
