on its website that before the war, Emden took steps to sell three Bellotto paintings through a Jewish gallery owner to Hitler’s art dealer Karl Haberstock in 1937 for a museum the fuhrer was mounting. Many works destined for Hitler’s museum were hidden during the war. The Houston museum’s researcher found that after Berlin fell in May 1945 the three Emden Bellottos were brought to a central collecting point in Munich.
The Chilean heirs who sued the Houston are the collector’s grandchildren Juan Carlos, Michel and Nicolás Emden. They say the Monuments Men transferred the Pirna painting in error to the Dutch government as part of shipment of other stolen art headed to the Netherlands.
The Emden grandchildren say Max Emden’s swift financial decline correlated directly with the Nazi persecution of Jews through laws meant to cut them from the German economy and strip them of their assets to benefit the Third Reich. By April 1933, they say in court documents, the Nazi government’s financial restrictions on Jews like Emden intentionally caused them to lose assets. They said their grandfather’s portfolio of securities deposited with Hamburg banks became frozen.
Entertainment Entertainment Latest News, Entertainment Entertainment Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: artnet - 🏆 522. / 51 Read more »