The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is a complicated history known for the “actors” of Art. Paul Leffmann, in 1938 he sold the German businessman. “Laura Zuckerman said.” He needed money to escape the Nazis. “
“Did they get out?” I asked.
“They came out. And they survived. But not all families did.”
Zuckerman has used $ 100 million by Lifmann’s heirs.
However, the American Court agreed.
But for other cases, it can become a tide. The Museum of Amsterdam returned to the heirs of Henri Matisse, the heirs of Albert and Marie Stern, saying that he was selling rent. Sterns tried to escape, but most families died in concentration camps.
And in a historical change in policy, the French parliament accepted the law unanimously, to continue the return of art quickly, that it is directly to families who claim it is his.
David Zivie, the French Ministry of Culture, is headed to receive mission in the mission of the Ness. He said the reason for such a work “to recognize what happened and to help families achieve their work.
“We need to know history because they should be in the hands of the direct owner because they have the last witnesses of what happened during the war,” Zivie said. “These jobs are like witnesses of bullying.”
The University of the University of Elizabeth Campbell said the University of the University of History, “I finally think that it is part of the source of justice to recognize that it is political will.”
He wrote about the complicity of other French and European governments while keeping the Nazis stole his book, “Museum deserves: Nazi Areta of the art in Western Europe”. Campbell said it could be even more that France and other countries agreed with new guidelines, including the United States. “These new guidelines said that a person who has sold a work until the Nazi era, so he had to do it,” he said. “So it’s giving a blanket to recognize coercion. It’s really a dramatic change.”
When the Germans went back, the articles of allies were found stolen everywhere, from the caves to the castles. More than 60,000 returned to France. But 2,000 pieces ended in Limbo, the French government did not own it without direct.
Ines is a new researcher hired at the Museum of Rotrinmind-Reynard in Paris. His work is to find the truth about a part of the Nazis of art. “It’s really horrible now to clarify the situation by the French,” he said. “If you say somehow you’ll take a detective and say,” Look at all the colds that happened 80 years ago and fix it. “Every story is important. And it’s worth doing that for each family, doing that effort.”
The case of Armand Dorville, however, has put the French government against his heirs, Kahn Francine said, “Knowing these photos is to know the same.”
Another heir, Raphaël Falk, said, “I feel angry when we have so many difficulties to recover them.”
When Dorville died for natural causes in 1941, his art collection was sold at auction. But because of the anti-Semitic laws, the French authorities confiscated money, and relatives – without money to escape – they were killed in Auschwitz.
Ninety years later, the North Carolina Museum returned one of the collars in Dorville, and a German museum returned the Impressionist Camille Pissurs. But the French government refuses to give more than half a dozen paintings in public museums, saying it was auction no done under duress.
Falk said: “It should be difficult to give them. Then I can understand that. But it’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay.”
The family hired Paris lawyer by Corinne Herschkovitch, who recovered for the Jewish family. “All these people in charge of cultural heritage were more concerned about keeping them alive or to conserve all these paintings and works of art,” he said.
I asked: “Do you think some of these museum directors are ashamed of these paintings?”
“I think so, I think. They’re embarrassed, it’s sure,” Herschkovich said.
The heirs of Dorville believe that they are fighting for history.
I asked: “When they return to the family, do you somehow feel that bad history has been corrected?”
“It’s not deleted, never deleted,” Falk replied. “Members of our family died. In my head, it’s a way to fix the damage.”
Kahn said: “It’s family memory. Because he was completely forgotten. And it’s on the shoulders to wake this story … to tell the story.”
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