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U. of Oklahoma asked to return artwork stolen by Nazis (English)
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Twenty-six Republican Oklahoma legislators signed a resolution May 11 demanding that the University of Oklahoma (OU) return a piece of artwork plundered by the Nazi’s during World War II. (English)
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Twenty-six Republican Oklahoma legislators signed a resolution May 11 demanding that the University of Oklahoma (OU) return a piece of artwork plundered by the Nazi’s during World War II.The resolution, which doesn’t carry the force of law and is only meant to compel action in this case, directs the university and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art on OU’s campus to “conduct provenance research on objects in the collection and prior to the acquisition of certain objects; directing certain resolution regarding objects unlawfully appropriated during the Nazi era; and directing distribution.”This new legislation is inspired by the university’s refusal to return Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep -- an 1886 oil painting by notable French impressionist Camille Pissarro -- to a Jewish family whose department store and extensive art collection was raided during the Nazi occupation of France in 1940. (English)
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This new legislation is inspired by the university’s refusal to return Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep -- an 1886 oil painting by notable French impressionist Camille Pissarro -- to a Jewish family whose department store and extensive art collection was raided during the Nazi occupation of France in 1940.Leone Meyer garnered national attention in May of 2013 after she filed a lawsuit against OU in federal court that claimed the painting—one of many prized works in the museum’s Weitzenhoffer Collection of French Impressionism—was stolen from her adoptive father Raoul Meyer by Nazi forces in Paris. In February of last year, Meyer sent an open letter to “the People of Oklahoma” describing her efforts to retrieve the painting. (English)