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In the News: Chicago Museum Clinging To Nazi-Looted Art, NY Court Told

Law360, New York (August 29, 2024, 6:47 PM EDT) — A prosecutor in the Manhattan DistrictAttorney’s Office argued in court Thursday that the Art Institute of Chicago is ignoring the horrors of the Nazi regime as it “desperately” attempts to hold onto a Holocaust victim’s stolen Egon Schiele drawing.

Law360, New York (29. August 2024, 18:47 Uhr EDT) – Ein Staatsanwalt der Staatsanwaltschaft von Manhattan argumentierte am Donnerstag vor Gericht, dass das Art Institute of Chicago die Schrecken des Nazi-Regimes ignoriert, während es „verzweifelt“ versucht, die gestohlene Egon-Schiele-Zeichnung eines Holocaust-Opfers zu behalten.

 

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On the Radio: Manhattan DA returns art stolen by the Nazis to one-time owner’s heirs

Jewish cabaret performer and art collector Fritz Grünbaum died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. On Friday, his heirs were reunited with two drawings that prosecutors say the Nazis stole from him, then trafficked illegally through New York.

At a small ceremony at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, law enforcement officials returned two drawings by Austrian artist Egon Schiele to Grünbaum’s descendants: “Girl with Black Hair” and “Portrait of a Man.”

“These were on his walls. He looked at them. He loved them,” Timothy Reif, whose father was raised by Grünbaum, said in an interview after the ceremony.