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25 July 2018
10 July 2022
1 February 1921Gregorian
2 April 2011
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7 December 2018
Although the case involves two different families and two different paintings, the pleadings were combined because they involved the same art dealer and identical issues, said Los Angeles attorney E. Randol Schoenberg.The art dealer is Stephen Hahn, a gallery owner formerly in New York and now in Santa Barbara, Calif.According to court records, in 1975 Hahn sold Picasso’s “Femme en Blanc” to a private Chicago collector, Marilyn Alsdorf.In 2002, Thomas Bennigson, a University of California law student in Oakland, tracked down the painting’s provenance, which showed that the Picasso had belonged to his grandmother, Carlota Landsberg of Berlin, before being taken forcibly by the Nazis.In 1976, Hahn sold Pissarro’s “Rue de Saint Honore Apres Midi, Effet de Pluie” to Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen, whose family allegedly had close ties to Hitler.Recently, Claude Cassirer of San Diego spotted a picture of the painting in a catalogue of the Thyssen collection.Cassirer’s grandmother, Lilly Neubauer-Cassirer, a German Jew, had been forced to sell the Pissarro for a fraction of its value under Nazi pressure. (English)
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In 2002, the register notified Marilynn Alsdorf, who had purchased the painting with her husband in 1975 from the Stephen Hahn Gallery in New York for $357,000. Within months the register located Bennigson. Alsdorf entered into settlement talks, but after the talks foundered late in 2002, Bennigson filed suit in Los Angeles federal court. (English)
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Although the case involves two different families and two different paintings, the pleadings were combined because they involved the same art dealer and identical issues, said Los Angeles attorney E. Randol Schoenberg.The art dealer is Stephen Hahn, a gallery owner formerly in New York and now in Santa Barbara, Calif.According to court records, in 1975 Hahn sold Picasso’s “Femme en Blanc” to a private Chicago collector, Marilyn Alsdorf.In 2002, Thomas Bennigson, a University of California law student in Oakland, tracked down the painting’s provenance, which showed that the Picasso had belonged to his grandmother, Carlota Landsberg of Berlin, before being taken forcibly by the Nazis.In 1976, Hahn sold Pissarro’s “Rue de Saint Honore Apres Midi, Effet de Pluie” to Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen, whose family allegedly had close ties to Hitler.Recently, Claude Cassirer of San Diego spotted a picture of the painting in a catalogue of the Thyssen collection. (English)
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A California judge has ruled that two families may proceed with their lawsuit against art dealer Stephen Hahn to recover the profits Hahn is alleged to have earned on sales, some 30 years ago, of works by Pablo Picasso and Camille Pissarro that had been looted during World War II. (English) (English)
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The art world has lost one of its great dealer-collectors with the passing of Stephen Hahn on April 2, 2011. Stephen was born February 1, 1921 in Hungary and spent his formative years in Paris. He came to New York from post-war Europe and was drawn to art dealing which he learned from his father, who was a well-known art dealer specializing in the works of the Old Masters (English)
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- enwiki Stephen Hahn (art dealer)