A robbery art paintings from the collection of the national socialists persecuted the Jewish art collector Max Stern, is shortly before the sale in Düsseldorf is returned.
The image “lake tower” of the painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (1778-1851), was presented on Monday to representatives of the heirs, such as the Max-star-cooperation project announced. The “Max Stern Art Restitution Project” research for years after about 400 works of art from the collection of star. 18 works have been restituted.
The Koekkoek-image was reported by a private provider in a düsseldorf-based auction house to be hospitalised. According to a note, the tribe of it from the former star collection, had illegal bahis been returned the painting to the Max and Iris Stern Foundation and its beneficiaries – three universities in Canada and Jerusalem.
The President of the world Jewish Congress, Ronald S. Lauder, praised the return of the image from the private possession as a much too rare event. Because still had been no solution found for private collections and museums in regard to provenance research and Restitution, said Lauder. Next week, the 20 will be in Berlin. Anniversary of the Washington principles is celebrated. The theme of the return of looted art from private ownership had to be addressed.
With the Washington principles of 1998, the signatory countries committed themselves looted art in public museums to track and search-based solutions for the heirs of the Nazi victims. For looted art from private collections, the self-obligation does not apply.
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