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Neuman de Végvár was a Romanian Jewish businessman who kept an apartment in Vienna. The Anschluss of March 1938 led to the persecution of Jews in Austria, including Nazi plunder of Jewish-owned art. The Neuman de Végvárs fled to Switzerland and later Paris, but at the cost of one of their prize pictures. They were permitted to leave and to export most of their paintings to France, on the condition that they sell to Hermann Goering for 20,000 marks an altarpiece panel by late-Gothic master Michael Pacher. The remaining collection, including “A Musician and his Daughter,” was deposited in a vault at the Credit Lyonnais, Paris. Soon after, the Neuman de Végvárs moved on to the United States, but the pictures left behind in France were discovered and looted by the Germans. As the war neared its end the Monuments Men found them, and by 1947 many Neumann de Végvár paintings had passed through the Munich Central Collecting Point. They were soon reclaimed by their rightful owners and traveled to America (cf. Charles Neuman de Végvár to Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.), February 26, 1947). (English)