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New York museums are now required to display special plaques for works of art stolen by the Nazis from Jews

'22.08.2022'

Nadezhda Verbitskaya

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Under a state law passed this month, New York museums are now required to disclose the history of art that was stolen from Europeans during World War II. First of all, we are talking about works of art stolen from Jews during the Nazi era. Yahoo News.

The law requires New York museums to display signs next to pre-1945 art that is known or suspected to have been stolen or forcibly sold under the Nazis. According to experts, during the Second World War, the Nazis took 600 works of art from different countries to Germany.

State law requires that works created before 1945 that changed hands in Nazi Germany must be registered with the Art Loss Register. It is a private database of over 700 pieces of lost, stolen and looted art.

For the past few decades, New York museums have been arguing over who rightfully owns the art that changed hands during the Nazi era.

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In 2018, the Guggenheim Museum returned a 1915 painting of a group of naked soldiers in the shower to the surviving family members of Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim. The Nazis stole this painting from him during World War II.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has also brought back art from Nazi-era Europe over the years. Including a snuff box and two bronze medals - to the heirs of the founders of the Munich art gallery, which was appropriated by the Nazis; and a 1944th-century silver goblet to the heirs of a Jewish couple killed in a concentration camp in XNUMX.

New York museums want to keep Nazi-stolen art

Last year, a federal appeals court ruled that the Metropolitan Museum of Art could keep a $100 million Picasso painting. According to the previous owner's family, it was sold to finance the owner's escape from Nazi Germany.

The Met also paid compensation for the preservation of a painting by the French Impressionist Claude Monet.

Descendants of people who fled Nazi Germany tried unsuccessfully to obtain paintings by French impressionist Auguste Renoir and German artist Georg Grosch from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.

And in 2007, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum received a joint lawsuit over two works by Picasso. The previous owner's nephew stated that they were forcibly taken away and sold during the war. The lawsuit was settled out of court, and the museums kept the works.

The Met, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Brooklyn Museum have not disclosed how they plan to comply with the new law.

The search for true owners

The Museum of Modern Art houses about 800 works that were in Europe during the Nazi era

Museum researchers continue to study the records of the owners of these works of art.

The Guggenheim Museum reports that its research staff have identified approximately 275 works. All of them changed hands in Europe between 1932 and 1946.

The Brooklyn Museum and the Met are also conducting research projects aimed at identifying stolen art.

About 40 Holocaust survivors live in New York.

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