Category: And where are the Paintings today?

To watch: Great STOLEN Art Explained; Egon Schiele & Fritz Gruenbaum

This video was done by James Payne, a curator, gallerist, and a passionate art lover. Check out his Youtube-channel Great Art Explained for other great videos

He writes about this film:

“This film looks at how stolen art “disappears” in a complicated practise designed to obscure facts and create wealth for the art market. How the true owners of these artworks, the descendants of Holocaust victims, are still fighting a system that stops at nothing to keep secrets and protect its wealthy clientele. There are works in private collections and established museums right now, which were stolen by the Nazis.
I think, it’s about time they were returned.”

CREDITS
Opening Animation and Title Sequence by Brian Adsit (instagram https://instagram.com/brian_vfx?utm_m… and Behance www.behance.com/badsit88)

Recording by Robert Lewis
Research Assistant: Jake Phillips

VIDEOS
All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel do not claim any right over them.

MUSIC
Fritz Grünbaum singing “Made in Germany”

FILMS
The Monuments Men – 2014 – ©20th Century Studios
Triumph of the Will – 1935 – ©UFA GmbH

BOOKS
Schiele by Reinhard Steiner
Egon Schiele: Landscapes by Rudolf Leopold
Hitler’s Art Thief by Susan Ronald

Restituted Grünbaum works auctioned at Christie´s

Christie’s auctioned two restituted Egon Schiele works on paper during its 20th Century Evening Sale, 16 May 2024. Both works date from 1911 and are masterfully executed in gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper: Stehender Akt mit Draperietuch (Standing Nude With Drapery and Schwarzes Mädchen (Black Girl or Girl in Black) . These two exceptional watercolors were part of the Collection Fritz Grünbaum which were returned to the heirs in the last months.

In the News: Chicago Magazin, The Drawing the Art Institute Won’t Give Back

The heirs of a famous Jewish entertainer killed in the Holocaust want the museum to return a work they say was stolen by the Nazis. But was it really?

20240514 - Chicagomag_The Drawing the Art Institute Won’t Give Back

Find the German Translation below:

20240514 - Chicagomag_The Drawing the Art Institute Won’t Give Back_de

Gruenbaum-Schieles saved and blocked in New York

The heirs of Fritz Grunbaum persuaded a Manhattan judge Tuesday to block the sale and transport of two works by Egon Schiele that belong to Mr. Grunbaum’s collection.  The works were featured by Richard Nagy of Richard Nagy, Ltd. at the Salon + Design fair held at the Park Avenue Armory, New York.

Tuesday, Justice Ramos of the New York Supreme Court entered a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) providing that Woman in a Black Pinafore and Woman Hiding Her Face, shall not be transferred or otherwise removed from  New York by any person or entity.

A hearing is scheduled for December, 1st in Manhattan.

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201511 16 Summons

20151117 Order to show cause with temporary restraining order