Vor 80 Jahren verstarb Fritz Grünbaum im Konzentrationslager Dachau.
80 years ago Fritz Grünbaum died in the concentration camp Dachau.
(Translation of this article is enclosed in the pdf)
Kurier vom 7. Jän. 2021 zum 80.Todestag von Fritz GrünbaumVor 80 Jahren verstarb Fritz Grünbaum im Konzentrationslager Dachau.
80 years ago Fritz Grünbaum died in the concentration camp Dachau.
(Translation of this article is enclosed in the pdf)
Kurier vom 7. Jän. 2021 zum 80.Todestag von Fritz GrünbaumThe question of whether there is looted art in the Leopold Museum Vienna has lost none of its topicality. By next year’s 20th anniversary of the museum, not even 90% of the collection, some 3,760 works of art, willl have been researched.
The ongoing need for provenance research is part of the government’s funding programme despite the museum being a special case as it is not state-owned but a private foundation. It is however state-funded and since 2008 the government has financed 1.5 research positions.The dossiers on 312 works of art compiled by the two researchers Sonja Niederacher and Michael Wladika were submitted to an independent commission, but in the majority of cases the commission deemed that the status of the works could “not be assessed according to the current state of knowledge”.
What this means for Fritz Grünbaum’s heirs, works by Egon Schiele, and the HEAR act
Appellate court upholds ruling by Justice Charles EThe German translation starts on page 47 / Die deutsche Übersetzung beginnt auf Seite 47
20190710 Decision Reif vs. Nagy.plus TranslationIt is extraordinarily gratifying that the Advisory Board of the Commission for Provenance Research in the Gertrude Felsoevanyi case has come up with a paradigm shift in the return of looted art which is in possession of the Republic of Austria.
Until now, a formal confiscation had to be proved, but now the German view of restitution is shared, namely that the loss due to persecution is decisive for restitution.
This view is taken with a delay of 25 years, but nevertheless …Chapeau!
It is also noteworthy that the decision is a revision of an earlier decision and that this revision is not based on previously unknown evidence, but on a different view from that taken 18 years ago.
It now remains to be seen to what extent the Commission for Provenance Research will revise and, if necessary, correct its own earlier decisions.
As there is no right of application, the Commission for Provenance Research must take action of its own – hopefully it will!
presents
Thursday, May 23, 2019 • 6:30 PM
—Free Admission & Open to the Public—
New York City Bar Association
42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10003
This program brings together Hon. John M. Walker Jr. as panel moderator with prominent attorneys in the field of art restitution to discuss the direction of court decisions. We are also pleased to have the Executive Director of the International Foundation for Art Research and the International Director of Restitution at Christie’s look back to the Nazi stolen art era and forward on the broadening of the definition of looted and stolen art.
FEATURING
Hon. John M. Walker, Jr., Panel Moderator
U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Raymond J. Dowd, Esq.
Partner, Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP
Monica Dugot
International Director of Restitution, Christie’s
Dr. Sharon Flescher
Executive Director, International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR)
Lawrence M. Kaye, Esq.
Partner, Herrick Feinstein LLP
William Pearlstein, Esq.
Partner, Pearlstein McCullough & Lederman LLP
This film sequence shows the oral hearing on 13 December 2018 at the Court of Appeal in the proceedings “Heirs of Fritz Grünbaum vs. art dealer Richard Nagy”.
Diese Filmsequenz zeigt die mündliche Anhörung vom 13. Dezember 2018 am Appelatilonsgerichtshof im Verfahren „Erben von Fritz Grünbaum gegen Kunsthändler Richard Nagy“
Find more information about the artworks in Austria here (PDF) and find a full, searchable database of the lost collection here.