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Blind, 90-year-old son of Holocaust victims sues to find his family's art (English)
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“Despite the fact that Grisebach knew that it was selling Basket Weavers on behalf of the daughter of the infamous Nazi art dealer, Hildebrandt Gurlitt, and that the provenance of the painting was highly questionable, Grisebach simply auctioned the painting to the highest bidder without conducting meaningful diligence of the provenance of the painting,” Toren’s lawyer, Martin Bienstock of Washington, DC, wrote in the court filing. (English)
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David Toren, the 90-year-old blind son of Holocaust victims, is suing the Berlin auction house Villa Grisebach in the US to track down paintings from his family’s art collection that were sold there in the past 20 years. One of those paintings was consigned by the daughter of Hildebrand Gurlitt, a dealer who worked with the Nazi regime. Toren is a retired lawyer in New York whose entire family was killed in Poland, during the Second World War. A young David—then named Klaus Günther Tarnowski—escaped with his brother on a Kindertransport to Sweden in August 1939. (English)
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Toren is a retired lawyer in New York whose entire family was killed in Poland, during the Second World War. A young David—then named Klaus Günther Tarnowski—escaped with his brother on a Kindertransport to Sweden in August 1939 (English)