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Von Paul Klee - Lenbachhaus, Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12526901

Swamp Legend by Paul Klee, labeled degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) by the Nazis, was confiscated in 1937 from the Landesmuseum Hannover, where it had been on loan from art historian Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers. Since 1982, the artwork has been housed in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich

Dada Wand Von Paul Klee - faculty-web.at (Memento vom 26. August 2002 im Internet Archive), Bild-PD-alt, https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9155620

Starting July 1937, the painting was displayed in the Entartete Kunst exhibition in several German cities on the so-called Dada Wall.Degenerate art was defined as works that insult German feeling.In 2017, Lissitzky-Küppers' heirs reached an ownership agreement with the city of Munich. #art

Von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Brücke-Museum, Berlin, Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58985222 More details: https://www.bruecke-museum.de/de/sammlung/werke/61622/erich-heckel-und-otto-mueller-beim-schach

Erich Heckel and Otto Mueller playing Chess (1913) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The painting was part of the collection of Jewish art historian and art dealer Dr. Victor Wallerstein. Persecuted by the Nazis, he sought refuge in Italy in 1936, where he remained under threat.

To finance his survival, Wallerstein sold artworks, including the Kirchner painting. After his heirs filed restitution claims, it was agreed that the painting by Kirchner would remain at the Brücke Museum, which had acquired it in 1973. The museum made a compensation payment to the heirs.

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Litzlberg am Attersee by Gustav Klimt

Amalie Redlich inherited the painting Litzlberg am Attersee (1915) by Gustav Klimt from her brother Victor. In 1941, Amalie Redlich and her daughter Mathilde were deported by the National Socialists to Łódź and murdered.

The apartment of the deported Amalie Redlich was cleared out by the Gestapo. Through the Salzburg art dealer and collector Friedrich Welz, the confiscated painting entered the Salzburg State Gallery in 1944. It remained in Salzburg until it was restituted 2011 to Amalie's heir in Canada.

Egon Schiele : Herbstsonne II Egon Schiele, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Karl Grünwald, owned the painting Herbstsonne II-Wilted Sunflowers (Autumn Sun II) by Egon Schiele. It was confiscated by the Nazis and sold at auction in 1942. The painting was submitted to Christie's for authentication, identified as part of Grünwald's collection, and returned in 2006 #art

Von Gustav Klimt, Die Erfüllung Gouache, Werkvorlage zum Stoclet-Fries, 1905/1909 Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16994345

In 2000, the Strasbourg Museum restituted Gustav Klimt's Die Erfüllung to Karl Grünwald's descendants. The Viennese antiquarian had sent it to Strasbourg in 1938 after Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany. Later, the German occupiers confiscated the 1.93 × 1.2 m painting, one of Klimt’s major works

After the annexation of Alsace by Nazi Germany in 1940, the watercolor was first acquired by a Strasbourg painter at an auction. In 1959, the city of Strasbourg purchased it for the local museum for just 50,000 francs. #art #klimt #artwork #restitution

Von Gustav Klimt, Die Erfüllung Gouache, Werkvorlage zum Stoclet-Fries, 1905/1909 Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16994345

In 2000, the Strasbourg Museum restituted Gustav Klimt's Die Erfüllung to Karl Grünwald's descendants. The Viennese antiquarian had sent it to Strasbourg in 1938 after Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany. Later, the German occupiers confiscated the 1.93 × 1.2 m painting, one of Klimt’s major works

Ein Foto von ihr. Sie hat dunkle Augen, die aufmerksam schauen.

Ein Selbstbild von ihr,mit nacktem Oberkörper, und sie schaut prüfend sich selber an

Hier wohnte Anita Rée, Jahrgang 1885, Freitod, am 12. Dezember 1933 Uhr in Kampen/ Sylt

Anita Clara Rée (9. Februar 1885)war eine anerkannte Malerin der Avantgarde in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik. Die Hamburgische Künstlerschaft schloss sie als Jüdin aus. Sie war durch Anfeindungen und persönliche Enttäuschungen vereinsamt; all dies trieb sie am 12. Dezember 1933 in den Freitod

Portrait of Wally by Egon Schiele, Location Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria

Wally by Egon Schiele
Walburga (Wally) Neuzil was the lover and muse of the artist from 1911 to 1915. The Viennese art dealer Lea Bondi-Jaray, owner of the Würthle Gallery in Vienna, privately owned the Egon Schiele painting Wally. The art dealer Friedrich Welz extorted the painting from her

Lovis Corinth's 1911 painting "Frau mit Lilien" depicts the artist’s wife among lilies. The original owner, Otto Ollendorf, tragically took his life in 1939 due to Nazi persecution. The Gestapo seized the painting during his family’s emigration. It was restituted to the heirs in November 1998. #art

He tragically lost his life in Theresienstadt in 1942, while his wife perished in Auschwitz in 1944. To this day, significant parts of his once extensive collection remain missing. In 2006, the Schiele painting was finally returned to Rieger’s heirs.

Starting around 1900, Rieger passionately assembled a remarkable collection of contemporary art, accepting artworks from artists as payment for dental treatments. Heinrich Rieger was stripped of his possessions and deported. #collector #artcollection

Von Egon Schiele - Reprografie aus Kunstbuch, Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5330053 Egon Schiele, Hafen von Triest

The painting "Sailing Ships in Agitated Waters – Port of Trieste" by Egon Schiele was acquired by the Joanneum Museum in Graz in 1958 from Friedrich Welz. Prior to 1938, it was part of the collection of the Jewish dentist Heinrich Rieger. #art #artworks #provenance #Schiele

The Munich art dealer Maria Almas-Dietrich acquired it for the “Sonderauftrag Linz,” Hitler’s organization collecting artworks for a planned Führer Museum in Linz. In 2020, Germany restituted the painting.

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Ferdinand_Georg_Waldmueller_Das_gutm%C3%BCtige_Kind_%28Der_Bettler%29.jpg

Until 1938, the painting The Beggar (The Good-Natured Child) by Georg Ferdinand Waldmüller, one of the most significant Austrian painters of the 19th century, was owned by Irma Löwenstein, a Viennese Jew. Under Nazi rule, she was forced to sell it under duress.

Von Egon Schiele - Reprografie aus Kunstbuch, Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6981743

Egon Schiele's painting Landscape at Krumau was owned by Daisy (née Steiner) and Wilhelm Hellmann.Seized by the Nazis in October 1938, it was sold in Vienna in 1942 and acquired by Wolfgang Gurlitt. In 1953, Gurlitt sold it to the Neue Galerie in Linz, where it remained until its restitution in 2003

The Foxes (German: Die Füchse) is a 1913 painting by German artist Franz Marc. It was housed at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf until it was returned to the heirs of Kurt Grawi in 2022. The heirs subsequently sold it at auction. #art #artworksn #artcollectors

Die Debatte um ein NS-Schiedsgericht Ein offener Brief auf Initiative des Schweizer Rechtsanwalts Olaf S. Ossmann und des Provenienzforschers Willi Korte aus Washington fordert Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz heraus.

Opposition grows to the German government's recent decision to reform the art restitution process in Germany by creating an arbitration tribunal to adjudicate claims.
The main criticism is that this is not a reform but rather major steps backwards for art claimants.
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Dada Wand Von Paul Klee - faculty-web.at (Memento vom 26. August 2002 im Internet Archive), Bild-PD-alt, https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9155620

Starting July 1937, the painting was displayed in the Entartete Kunst exhibition in several German cities on the so-called Dada Wall.Degenerate art was defined as works that insult German feeling.In 2017, Lissitzky-Küppers' heirs reached an ownership agreement with the city of Munich. #art

Von Paul Klee - Lenbachhaus, Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12526901

Swamp Legend by Paul Klee, labeled degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) by the Nazis, was confiscated in 1937 from the Landesmuseum Hannover, where it had been on loan from art historian Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers. Since 1982, the artwork has been housed in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich

This painting by Ernst Müller was restituted to the heirs of Selma and Ludwig Friedmann.

The apartment of the deported Amalie Redlich was cleared out by the Gestapo. Through the Salzburg art dealer and collector Friedrich Welz, the confiscated painting entered the Salzburg State Gallery in 1944. It remained in Salzburg until it was restituted 2011 to Amalie's heir in Canada. #art

The apartment of the deported Amalie Redlich was cleared out by the Gestapo. Through the Salzburg art dealer and collector Friedrich Welz, the confiscated painting entered the Salzburg State Gallery in 1944. It remained in Salzburg until it was restituted 2011 to Amalie's heir in Canada.

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Litzlberg am Attersee by Gustav Klimt

Amalie Redlich inherited the painting Litzlberg am Attersee (1915) by Gustav Klimt from her brother Victor. In 1941, Amalie Redlich and her daughter Mathilde were deported by the National Socialists to Łódź and murdered.

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