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Two years ago, for example, the Yale University Art Gallery discovered that Herbert Schaeffer, the lender of several important old-master and modern paintings it had long displayed, had been a Nazi storm trooper. A Washington resident identified a Courbet in the Schaeffer collection as the property of a deceased Jewish relative from Berlin. Other paintings lent by Schaeffer immediately came under suspicion of being war spoils. (English)
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Marczell de Nemes (born Moses Klein, 1866–1930), Munich and Budapest; sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, 1913, lot 100; sold to M. Bousquet, Paris; Mandelbaum Collection, Berlin; Leo Lewin (1881–1965), Breslau, Germany; Max Silberberg (1875–1945), Breslau, Germany, by 1931; forced sale, Paul Graupe, Berlin, March 23, 1935 lot 19; possibly sold to Josefine Weinmann (1885–1974), Berlin; confiscated as Alien Property by Nazi officials. With Wolfang Luck, Berlin; sold to Dr. Herbert Schaefer (1910–2011), Berlin; with Ingrid Gartner (née Meyer), Berlin, 1947; confiscated by British Allied Military Authorities probably at Helmstedt, Germany, April 24–25, 1947; transferred to the Kulturbehörde, Hamburg, Germany, August 8, 1947; transferred to the Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; restituted to the heirs of Max Silberberg, and to Dr. Herbert Schaefer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, September 1, 1970 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1981–2001); given by Dr. Herbert Schaefer and Monika Schaefer (née Winter, died 2019), Malaga, Spain, and Eric "Erich" Walter Weinmann (1913–2007), Washington, D.C., and his family to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2001 (English)