{"id":105252,"date":"2023-06-26T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=105252"},"modified":"2023-06-18T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T08:49:08","slug":"26-00-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=105252","title":{"rendered":"Boston Museum Gets Ownership of Nazi-Looted Painting as Part of Settlement With Heirs of Jewish Art Dealers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Boston Museum Gets Ownership of Nazi-Looted Painting as Part of Settlement With Heirs of Jewish Art Dealers<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts. Photo: Suicasmo via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

An oil-on-panel painting by Dutch artist Adriaen van Ostade that was looted by the Nazis and set to be displayed in Adolf Hitler\u2019s museum will now have a permanent home at Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) as the result of an agreement reached with the museum\u2019s patrons and the heirs of two Jewish art dealers, the MFA\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conversing in a Tavern<\/em>\u00a0from 1671 was part of the inventory of a gallery in Paris run by Jewish art dealer Paul Graupe in the early 20th century. In 1939, Graupe fled Nazi-occupied France to avoid persecution but before leaving he asked his business partner Arthur Goldschmidt, who was also Jewish, to try and save the gallery\u2019s collection, including\u00a0Conversing in a Tavern,<\/em>\u00a0by shipping it out of the country. Goldschmidt instead sold the painting in February 1941 to Karl Haberstock, an art dealer working for Hitler, before he himself left the country and immigrated to the US.<\/span><\/p>\n

Haberstock sold\u00a0Conversing in a Tavern<\/em>\u00a0in April 1941 to Hitler\u2019s art adviser and curator, Hans Posse. The painting was set to be included in the art museum Hitler planned to build in Linz, Austria, that would be called F\u00fchrermuseum. However, the Allied forces recovered the painting after the end of World War II and it was sent to France for restitution, according to the MFA.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe painting was not claimed by the end of the 1940s, and as a result the French state auctioned it in 1951,\u201d the MFA explained. \u201cIt changed hands several times on the European art market before Susan and Matthew Weatherbie bought it, unaware of its Nazi-era history, in 1992. It is one of 28 Dutch and Flemish paintings the Weatherbies pledged to the MFA in 2017.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of the new agreement reached last week,\u00a0the heirs of Goldschmidt and Graupe will receive an undisclosed cash payment for\u00a0Conversing in a Tavern,\u00a0<\/em>according to\u00a0Artnet News.<\/a>\u00a0In return, the MFA will retain ownership of the painting and it will be donated to the museum \u201cat a future date\u201d by the Weatherbies, the museum said, adding that the \u201cjust and fair resolution\u201d is consistent with the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are happy that these longstanding ownership issues have been resolved so amicably, and we are delighted to display\u00a0Customers Conversing in a Tavern<\/em>\u00a0at the MFA so that it can be shared with the public,\u201d the Weatherbies said in released statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Artnet News<\/a>\u00a0reported that according to provenance research, Goldschmidt claimed he was forced to sell the Van Ostade artwork and other paintings, and it is believed that Graupe never knew that the work was given to the Nazis. Graupe died in Germany in 1953 and Goldschmidt in Switzerland in 1960.<\/span><\/p>\n

Customers Conversing<\/em>\u00a0has been installed in the MFA\u2019s wing of Dutch and Flemish galleries and is displayed alongside other works by Van Ostade.<\/span><\/p>\n

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