Judge Ramos has ordered to turn over the two paintings looted by Nazis from Fritz Grünbaum to Christie´s Auction house and upbraided the dealer Richard Nagy for infringing on the property rights of the heirs.
309 - Notice of Entry - SJTag: Fritz Grünbaum
Brief Amicus Curiae
Brief Amicus Curiae on Behalf of The American Jewish Committee, Omer Bartov, Michael Bazyler, Haim Beliak, Michael Berenbaum, Donald Burris, Judy Chicago, Richard Falk, Hector Feliciano, Eugene Fisher, Irving Greenberg, Peter Hayes, Douglas and Marjorie Kinsey, Douglas Kmiec, Marcia Sachs Littell, Hubert Locke, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Bruce Pauley, John Pawlikowski, Carol Rittner, John Roth, Randol Schoenberg, William Shulman, Stephen Smith, Alan Steinweis, Melvyn Weiss, Donald Woodman, and Jonathan Zatlin, in Support of Plaintiffs-Respondents.
Full Amicus BriefOn December 16, 2016, President Obama signed into law the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 (the “HEAR Act”), which passed both the House and Senate unanimously. Amici have particular interests implicated by the HEAR Act, which are set forth in Appendix A. None of the Amici has any financial or economic interest in the outcome of this appeal.
Amici underscore one specific way in which Nazis victimized Jews: robbery on a grand scale. The grand larceny should not be overlooked merely because mass murder was the foulest crime perpetrated by the Nazi conspirators……In Part I of the brief, we suggest that the HEAR Act does exactly what the Washington Principles and the Terezín Declaration failed to accomplish: provide binding legal language enabling fair and just resolution of conflicts over Recovery of Holocaust Expropriated Art. In Part II, we explain how the HEAR Act intersects with various technical defenses in this case focused on two pieces of art that were indisputably the property of Fritz Grunbaum.
Negativ Decision of Second Instance
Mit dieser Entscheidung wird David Bakalar das alleinige Besitzrecht auf Schieles Seated Woman with Bent Left Leg (Torso), Sitzende mit angezogenem linken Bein (Torso) von der zweiten Instanz zuerkannt. Begründet wird diese Entscheidung mit einer spezifischen Form der Verjährung im New Yorker Recht, nämlich dem schuldhaften Mangel an Bemühungen der Vorfahren der Erben von Fritz Grünbaum das Bild bereits zu einem früheren Zeitpunkt von David Bakalar zu fordern. Dies obwohl es den Erben und deren Vorfahren der Aufenthaltsort des Bildes völlig unbekannt war. Der erstinstanzliche Richter Judge William H. Pauley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Pauley_III meinte bereits in einem frühen Verfahrensstand, dass für den Fall die Erben von Fritz Grünbaum das Eigentum des Bildes wieder erlangen würden die Ureinwohner von Amerika auch erfolgreich Long Island fordern könnten.….
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With this decision, David Bakalar received sole ownership rights to Schiele Seated Woman with Bent Left Leg (Torso), seated with left leg tightened (torso) is by the second instance. This decision is justified by a specific form of the statute of limitations in New York law (called laches), namely the culpable lack of efforts by the ancestors of the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum to claim the work of art at an earlier time, although the whereabouts of the Gouache was completely unknown.
2012 10 11 Summary Order-negative Schlussentscheidung (english only)
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Neujahrswünsche / New Year Wishes
Wir wünschen Ihnen ein schönes und erfolgreiches Neues Jahr !
Den Erben von Fritz Grünbaum wünschen wir, dass die zuständigen Stellen zumindest auf Schreiben antworten.
Die Leopold Museum Privatstiftung und Mag. Dr. Sonja Niederacher, Provenienzforschung bm:ukk-lmp im Leopold Museum im MQ ließen dieses Minimum an Hochachtung vermissen.
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Weiters wünschen wir den Erbe, dass das Verfahren auf Restitution der beiden Werke Egon Schieles aus der Sammlung Fritz Günbaums die in der Albertina nach einer Schenkung von Erich Lederer verwahrt werden, nach mehr als 12- jähriger Dauer positiv abgeschlossen wird.
We wish you a happy and successful New Year!
We wish to the heirs of Fritz Grunbaum that the competent authorities at least respond to letters.
The Leopold Museum Privatstiftung and Mag. Dr. Sonja Niederacher, provenanceresearcher at the Leopold Museum missed to show this modicum of respect for the heirs.
Furthermore we wish the heirs to get back the two paintings, which are deposed at the Albertina, after 12 years of formal procedure.
Watch and Listen! Powerpoint and Audio of Schiele’s Dead City: Nazi Art Looting at Sotheby’s Institute/New York State Bar Association
Egon Schiele’s Dead City – Stolen from Fritz Grunbaum
You can WATCH and LISTEN to my Powerpoint presentation with audio is now available here from the presentation I gave at Sotheby’s Institute on March 24, 2010 in a program sponsored by the New York State Bar Association’s Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section, chaired by Prof. Judith Prowda.
More material on artworks stolen from Fritz Grunbaum while he was in the Dachau Concentration Camp can be found at http://artstolenfromfritzgrunbaum.wordpress.com/.
Egon Schiele’s Girl With Black Hair – Experts Agree Stolen From Fritz Grunbaum
Falsified Provenance Published by Oberlin College’s Allen Memorial Art Museum
Watch and listen to my Sotheby’s Institute presentation and learn about why Oberlin College’s provenance of Girl With Black Hair, found here, is false.
A summary of the evidence that Oberlin College has concealed below:
Below: the cover of the 1956 Gutekunst & Klipstein (aka Galerie Kornfeld) – Eberhard Kornfeld testified that all of the artworks in this catalog belonged to Fritz Grunbaum. Dead City was the only artwork pictured that listed Fritz Grunbaum as the prior owner.
Oberlin has never put Fritz Grunbaum’s ownership of Girl With Black Hair in the provenance even though evidence of experts concluding that Fritz Grunbaum owned Girl With Black Hair was reported by Steven Litt of The Plain Dealer
Prewar catalogs show that Fritz Grunbaum owned Girl With Black Hair – Oberlin refuses to list these catalogs in its provenance of Girl With Black Hair
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Girl With Black Hair, according to Eberhard Kornfeld, spent 147 days in Switzerland before being sold to Otto Kallir on September 18, 1956.
Girl With Black Hair, according to Eberhard Kornfeld, spent 147 days in Switzerland before being sold to Otto Kallir on September 18, 1956.
Otto Kallir was Fritz Grunbaum’s art dealer in Vienna. Kallir had catalogued Dead City as being in Fritz Grunbaum’s collection in 1930 when he wrote a catalogue raisonne of Schiele’s oils. As Otto Kallir’s grand-daughter, Jane Kallir, testified at trial: Fritz Grunbaum owned Girl With Black Hair.
So why does Oberlin‘s President Marvin Krislov refuse to admit Fritz Grunbaum’s ownership?
by Ray Dowd at 7:32 PM 
Crossposted, see also
http://copyrightlitigation.blogspot.com/2010/04/watch-and-listen-powerpoint-and-audio.html
1938 04 27 Property Declarations by Fritz and Lilly Grünbaum
The Asset declarations (VA) were collected by the Jewish Property Declaration Office (VVSt.)
Jewish Property Declaration Lilly und Fritz Grünbaum (german).pdf
Jewish Property Declaration (translated).pdf
Fritz Grunbaums Jewish Property Declarations were filed by Lily Grunbaum under power of attorney. Six declarations were filed from July, 1938 through June 30, 1939.
The last time the art collection was declared had been June 30, 1939 – almost a year after Mathilde Lukacs left Vienna
When Lilly Grünbaum died in December 1942, nothing was left.