Wiesbaden: regular restitution
Recently the Museum Wiesbaden back restitution canvas Danish artist Peter de Grebbera heirs of his pre-war owners
Recently, the Museum Wiesbaden back restitution canvas Danish artist Peter de Grebbera (Pieter de Grebber) the heirs of its prewar owners. Scene XVII century "Double Portrait of a young couple" previously belonged to a Jewish family of Jacob and Rosa Oppenheimer (Jacob and Rosa Oppenheimer).
Museum Wiesbaden acted in accordance with provisions of the Washington "1998, recommenders to return property stolen by Nazi Germany from the Jews and their heirs.
dealer Jacob Oppenheimer possessed before the war, his own firm, trading in works of art. He and his wife Rosa had fled from Berlin in 1933, fearing arrest. They moved to France, but after the occupation of its territory, Jacob was in the hands of the Nazis and died in 1941. His wife came first in the transit camp Drancy near Paris, and then was deported to Auschwitz where she died in 1943.
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