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Max Emden’s heirs to revive Nazi loot claim against the National Gallery of Victoria (English)
Nicholas JENSEN
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20 September 2022
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When Juan Carlos received an unlikely tip-off in the early 2000s from a US art contact, he became convinced Lady with a Fan once belonged to his grandfather.“As soon as I looked at the NGV’s provenance online, I knew it was wrong,” he tells The Australian. “The record listed the name Bromberg, which was connected to my family through my great-grandparents … It was the same family and they co-financed part of the art collection.”Instead of Emden, the NGV listed a Dr Grunden of Hamburg.The 75-year-old wrote to the gallery claiming “Dr Grunden” had been written in error when the painting’s provenance should display the name of his grandfather, “Dr Max Emden”.“They really thought I was a mad clown. But when they went back to their records, they realised I was absolutely right. There had been a typographical error. It should have read ‘Emden’.” (English)