Seven valuable art pieces plundered by the Nazis more than 80 years ago are being returned to the heirs of a cabaret performer, who was killed during the Holocaust and whose massive art collection was stolen by the Third Reich
During his abbreviated lifetime, a cabaret performer named Fritz Grünbaum amassed a trove of artwork — more than 400 pieces, including 80 sketches and paintings by the Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele that were ultimately plundered by the Nazis. For a while, many of those disappeared until they began to resurface over the years in auction houses and prominent museums.
By some estimates, the Nazis stole 650,000 works of art from 1933 to 1945, many from Jewish families who were arrested and then killed in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Some of the stolen pieces were created by some of the world’s most heralded artists, including van Gogh, Picasso and Chagall.
All of the seven pieces, like the two recovered earlier, will be auctioned off to raise money to support scholarships for underrepresented performing artists. Another, “I Love Antitheses,” which is valued at $2.5 million on its own, had been part of the Ronald Lauder Collection housed by the Neue Galerie in New York.
Last week, Manhattan authorities notified three museums of intent to seize three Schiele pieces, one each from the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Ohio. Combined, the artwork are valued at nearly $4 million. Those works will remain at the museums until they can be transported to the district attorney’s office at a later date, they said.
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