{"id":60703,"date":"2018-04-16T17:05:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=60703"},"modified":"2018-04-09T06:34:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T04:34:41","slug":"15-05-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=60703","title":{"rendered":"JUDGE AWARDS NAZI-LOOTED ARTWORKS TO HOLOCAUST VICTIM’S HEIRS"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>JUDGE AWARDS NAZI-LOOTED ARTWORKS TO HOLOCAUST VICTIM’S HEIRS<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Art experts view the case as a key test of a US law designed to ease the recovery of such stolen works.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A man looks at self-portraits by Egon Schiele at the Belvedere museum in Vienna . (photo credit: REUTERS\/HERWIG PRAMMER)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A New York judge on Thursday awarded title of two Nazi-looted drawings by noted Austrian painter Egon Schiele to a Holocaust victim’s heirs in what art experts viewed as a key test case of a US law designed to ease the recovery of such stolen works.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under the ruling, both works – “Woman in a Black Pinafore” and “Woman Hiding her Face” – are to be turned over to descendants of Franz Friedrich “Fritz” Grunbaum, an Austrian-Jewish entertainer and impresario who perished in the Dachau concentration camp in 1941.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grunbaum, a vocal critic of the Nazis, once owned some 450 artworks, including more than 80 by Schiele, an Expressionist protege of Gustav Klimt and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century in his own right.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grunbaum’s art collection was seized by the Nazi regime after he was arrested in 1938 and sent to Dachau, according to a synopsis of the case contained in Thursday’s summary judgment.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two Schiele works in question turned up decades later, in a booth operated by a London-based dealer, Richard Nagy, at a 2015 art and design show in New York City, and the heirs filed suit seeking to recover the drawings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nagy’s lawyers asserted he had acquired legitimate title to the two drawings, stemming from a 1956 sale of some 50 Schiele works by Grunbaum’s sister-in-law to a gallery in Switzerland, and that the heirs’ rights to bring their claim had long since expired.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his 17-page decision, however, Justice Charles Ramos of the state Supreme Court in Manhattan sided against Nagy, citing the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act.<\/span><\/p>\n

That law, enacted by Congress in 2016, extended the federal statute of limitations for seeking restitution of Nazi-confiscated art to six years from the time of “actual discovery” of its identity and whereabouts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nagy’s lawyers argued the HEAR Act did not apply, a position the judge called “absurd,” saying the statute was “intended to apply to cases precisely like this one.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The judge said there was no dispute the artworks at stake formerly belonged to Grunbaum and were forcibly taken by the Nazis during World War Two, a fact that put the onus on Nagy to establish a superior claim. Ramos said no such evidence was presented.<\/span><\/p>\n

The judge also held that New York law “protects the rightful owner’s property where that property had been stolen, even if the property is in the possession of a good faith purchaser.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Raymond Dowd, lawyer for the Grunbaum heirs – named in the case as Timothy Reif, David Frankel and Milos Vavra – hailed the decision as a landmark in bringing justice to Holocaust victims.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ruling, he said, “brought us a step closer to recovering all of the culture that was stolen during the largest mass theft in history, which until now, has been overshadowed by history’s largest mass murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

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