2023-12-30 10:08:31
In the fall, US authorities confiscated works by Egon Schiele from the former collection of the cabaret artist and art collector Fritz Grünbaum, who died in the Dachau concentration camp in 1941. Some well-known institutions that had owned the works voluntarily returned them to Grünbaum’s heirs. Not the case with the Art Institute of Chicago, which can now keep one of Schiele’s drawings following a ruling, as “Die Presse” (Saturday edition) reported.
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According to the report, a New York judge has ruled that the work does not have to be restituted to the heirs as a result of the dismissal of the proceedings due to the statute of limitations. This is the watercolor drawing “The Russian Prisoner of War” from 1916. “We are pleased that the court confirms our legal ownership,” “Die Presse” quoted the Art Institute of Chicago as saying.
The verdict should also be of interest to two Viennese museums. In the fall, the legal representatives of Grünbaum’s heirs also referred to a lawsuit in New York against the Republic, the Leopold Museum and the Albertina “for the determination of ownership and publication” of a total of twelve Schiele works. At the time, both the Green State Secretary for Culture Andrea Mayer and the Leopold Museum saw no need for action when asked by the APA.
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