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Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Mostrar todas las entradas

The art of fair and just solution.

 "Berlin's regional government said it will return two Expressionist paintings in the Neue National galerie museum to the heir of a Jewish textiles entrepreneur who was murdered at Auschwitz during World War II.


The paintings by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff belonged to Robert Graetz, a Berlin businessman who was deported by the Nazis to Poland in 1942, after losing his villa and possessions. The pictures, a 1920 self-portrait and a 1910 landscape titled "Farm in Dangast," are now valued at a combined $4 million."

Germany is one of more than 40 countries that endorsed the non-binding Washington Principles on returning looted art in public collections. The German government, states and municipalities pledged in a separate agreement to seek a "fair and just solution" with the heirs for art in public collections that was lost from private ownership due to Nazi persecution. Read More






   

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