(Q33299894)
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1983
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Before fleeing to France, Westheim gave his collection to Weidler in 1935 for safekeeping until he could return, his daughter says in the complaint. The Nazis continued to pursue him in occupied Paris, until he escaped to Mexico."After the conclusion of World War II, Weidler had led Westheim to believe that his art collection had been lost or destroyed during the war, and she broke off communications with him," the complaint states. "Following the war, Weidler shipped artworks from the Westheim Collection that had in fact survived the war to New York and fraudulently concealed them from Westheim. After Westheim's death in 1963, Weidler began to sell artworks from the Westheim Collections." (English)
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Charlotte Weidler, who in the late 1940s managed to retrieve from Wilhelm Hausmann the artworks that had been hidden in Berlin and take them with her to New York --presumably declared as her own property -- had probably been biding her time until Westheim's death. In any case, she began to sell individual paintings from the collection in the late 1960s, one by one. (English)
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The decision gives the Solomon family ownership of four Expressionist paintings: Otto Mueller’s Bathers (1910), Paul Klee’s Two Little Pleasure Castles (1918), Max Pechstein’s Portrait of Paul Westheim (1928, also known as Portrait of a Standing Man), and Edgar Jené’s Plastische Imagination (ca. 1930).Much of the case hinged on a 1973 release through which Frenk’s mother, Marianna, relinquished claims to all the artworks in Westheim’s collection. Margit claimed that the release was fraudulently induced because Weidler had kept secret the whereabouts of Westheim’s holdings.Like many restitution suits, this one revolved around what really happened to artworks held by European collectors when they were forced to relocate in the years before and during World War II, but it is especially complicated because Westheim willingly entrusted his collection to Weidler when he fled to Paris from Berlin in 1933. (English)
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- enwiki Charlotte Weidler