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Portrait Plundered by Nazis Returned by Rutgers (English)
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The family had been looking for the painting for more than 50 years. Simon’s father Bernard Gutmann (who settled in England and anglicized his name to Goodman), and his aunt Lili, dedicated their lives to researching and reclaiming the artwork in their parents’ 18th-century estate, which consisted of about 60 old masters, including works by Bosch and Botticelli, and as well as impressionist works by Degas and Renoir. When Bernard died in 1994, he and his sister had successfully reclaimed or bought back about a third of the collection. But the Hans Baldung Grien eluded them. After their father’s death, Simon, and, Nick, both of Los Angeles, continued to search for artworks and objects looted by the Nazis. Last year, flipping through a rare catalogue of the artist by a German art historian in the Getty library, Simon spotted the Hans Baldung Grien. The painting, which had made its way to dealers in New York after the war, was donated to Rutgers in 1959 by Rudolf Heinemann, an international art dealer and collector who died in 1975 (British English)
Carla Cantor
15 January 2012