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Walter Westfeld (multiple languages)
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4 March 1889Gregorian
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3 October 1942
23 January 1943
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3 October 1942
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The Museum of Fine Art, Boston, has settled with the family of a German art dealer whose Eglon van der Neer painting, Portrait of a Man and Woman in an Interior (1665-67), was looted by Nazis when he was sent to Auschwitz during World War II. The museum agreed to pay an undisclosed restitution to the family and is keeping the painting in its collection. (The record price paid for van der Neer at auction is more than $1.4 million, set in London in 1989. According to journalist Paul Jeromack, an Old Masters expert, said the lady's "dour expression" made this one worth $1.2 million, tops.)Portrait of a Man and Woman in an Interior depicts an affluent couple in a room with a painting of Venus over the mantel and a Persian carpet on the table, now hangs in one of the MFA’s European art galleries.The painting had originally belonged to German art dealer Walter Westfeld (1889-1945), who opened his art gallery in Elberfeld (present-day Wuppertal) in 1920. In 1935, the Reichs Chamber of Fine Arts banned him, as a Jew, from working as an art dealer, and he was forced to close his gallery in 1936. (English)
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