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Another Seized Piping Painting Returned
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NNreported:‘Anoilpainting bought it in 2008, the New York
was returned Tuesday to the attorney’sofficesaid.Neitherhadany
estate of a Jewish art dealer idea of the painting’s past. Philip
who was forced to consign the Mould Ltd. had purchased the
painting and other artwork under painting the year before from
Nazi Germany before fleeing the Lempertz Auction House.The same
country. auction house sold the painting in
‘Portrait of a Musician Playing a 1937 after Stern was forced to
Bagpipe’ was done in 1632 by an liquidate.
unknown painter from the Northern Immigration agents used
Netherlandish school, according to a information from a Holocaust claims
statement from the U.S. attorney’s office in the NewYork state Banking
office in southern NewYork. It was Department to look into Steigrad’s
owned by Max Stern, an art dealer gallery.The art dealer‘confirmed the
who had a gallery in Dusseldorf, painting was in his possession’and he
Germany,until1937,whentheNazis’ eventually allowed agents to seize the
ReichChamberforFineArtsordered painting,the attorney’s office said.’
him to liquidate the
gallery and its inventory
without receiving any
proceeds from the sale,
the statement said.
Stern, who died in
1987,left no heirs.
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