{"id":114571,"date":"2024-07-29T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=114571"},"modified":"2024-07-27T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T10:16:16","slug":"29-00-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=114571","title":{"rendered":"11th Nazi-Looted Artwork Returned to Heirs of Jewish Cabaret Performer Killed in Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>11th Nazi-Looted Artwork Returned to Heirs of Jewish Cabaret Performer Killed in Holocaust<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

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

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A partial view of \u201cSeated Nude Woman, front view\u201d by Egon Schiele. Photo: Provided<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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A drawing by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele became on Friday the 11th artwork returned to the family of Fritz Gr\u00fcnbaum, an Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer whose art collection was stolen by the Nazis before he was killed in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and US Special Agent in Charge Ivan J. Arvelo of Homeland Security Investigations\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0in New York City on Friday the return of \u201cSeated Nude Woman, front view\u201d by Schiele. The drawing was seized by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office earlier this year from the estate of Gustav \u201cGus\u201d Papanek. The artwork from 1918 is believed to depict Schiele\u2019s wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ernst and Helene Papanek, Austrian Jews who fled Nazi persecution in 1938 and emigrated to the United States in 1940, purchased the artwork in 1961 not knowing that it had been stolen from Gr\u00fcnbaum. They gave the drawing as a gift to their son, Gus, in 1969 and it remained in his estate until the latter\u2019s death in 2022. The Papanek family fully cooperated with the District Attorney\u2019s office to return the drawing, and it was given to the Gr\u00fcnbaum family at a ceremony on Friday in New York that was attended by members of both families.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that returning the drawing is the right thing to do,\u201d said the Papanek family. \u201cThe experience of the two families serves as yet another reminder of the evil and brutality of the Nazi regime.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe recovery of this important artwork \u2014 stolen from a prominent Jewish critic of Adolf Hitler \u2014 sends a message to the world that crime does not pay and that the law enforcement community in New York has not forgotten the dark lessons of World War II,\u201d said Timothy Reif, Gr\u00fcnbaum\u2019s relative.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gr\u00fcnbaum was a writer, director, comedian, and film and radio star in Austria whose art collection comprised of hundreds of pieces, including more than 80 works by Schiele. He was arrested by the Nazis in 1938 after their annexation of Austria and forced to give his wife power of attorney. She was later coerced to hand over her husband\u2019s entire art collection to Nazi officials. Many of the confiscated works were auctioned or sold abroad to finance the Nazi Party. Gr\u00fcnbaum died in the Dachau concentration camp in Germany in 1941, and his wife was killed a year later in another Nazi concentration camp.<\/span><\/p>\n

In September 2023, the District Attorney\u2019s Office\u00a0returned seven Schiele artworks<\/a>\u00a0to Gr\u00fcnbaum heirs from the Museum of Modern Art; The Ronald Lauder Collection; The Morgan Library; The Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and the Vally Sabarsky Trust in Manhattan. Another artwork was returned voluntarily by the collector Michael Lesh directly to Gr\u00fcnbaum\u2019s family in October 2023, and in January 2024, two more artworks were returned \u2014 from the Allen Museum of Art at Oberlin College and the Carnegie Museum of Art.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Schiele drawing \u201cRussian War Prisoner\u201d remains seized in place at the Art Institute of Chicago, according to the District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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