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Cleveland Museum of Art settles claim over Johann Liss drawing said to have been taken by Nazis from Feldmann collection (English)
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The Cleveland Museum of Art is the latest museum in the world to settle an ownership claim over a work of art allegedly confiscated by Nazi forces during World War II.The museum said in written statements and interviews over the past week that it has paid an unspecified sum to the heirs of art collector Arthur Feldmann, enabling it to keep a rare and beautiful drawing by the 17th century German-born artist Johann Liss.All parties agree that the 1622 drawing, which depicts a woman with bare breasts seated on a stone balcony with a fallen crown at her feet and a smoldering urn on a parapet overhead, once belonged to Feldmann. At issue according to the museum is whether the Nazis confiscated the drawing, which the museum bought in good faith in 1953 from London art dealer Herbert Bier.Feldmann, according to the museum's statement, died in 1941, two years after he was arrested and tortured by the Nazis when they invaded the city of Brno in the present-day Czech Republic. Feldmann's wife, the statement said, was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and later Auschwitz, where she too died. (English)
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Feldmann, according to the museum's statement, died in 1941, two years after he was arrested and tortured by the Nazis when they invaded the city of Brno in the present-day Czech Republic. Feldmann's wife, the statement said, was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and later Auschwitz, where she too died. (English)
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All parties agree that the 1622 drawing, which depicts a woman with bare breasts seated on a stone balcony with a fallen crown at her feet and a smoldering urn on a parapet overhead, once belonged to Feldmann. At issue according to the museum is whether the Nazis confiscated the drawing, which the museum bought in good faith in 1953 from London art dealer Herbert Bier. (English)
Steven Litt
26 May 2013
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