The Israel Museum has returned to the restitution of the picture by Paul Klee
ARTinvestment.RU   01 октября 2010

Klee's painting "The Dance of the veil" went to the former housekeeper German collector Harry Fulda junior. She decided to donate the product of an Israeli museum for charity

The Israel Museum announced the restitution pattern 1920 "Dance with the veil of" brush by Paul Klee. This product in 1932-1941 belonged to a German collector Harry Fulda, Jr. (Harry Fuld Jr.). The owner had to leave his collection of works of art for storage transport company Gustav Knauer in 1937, when he emigrated to England. He had hoped to ship later collection in Britain, but his intention was not to be. In 1941 emigrated Jews deprived of German citizenship, and their former property in Germany. Collection Fulda, thus passed into the ownership of the Nazi state.

In 1948, the Nazis confiscated works of art, pre-war owners of which were unknown, the central collection points in Germany handed Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO ) develop further the distribution of Jewish cultural heritage in museums, synagogues and other Jewish organizations around the world.

Approximately 250 paintings, including a picture Klee, 250 drawings on paper and 700 objects Jewish culture were transferred to the preservation of the National Museum Bezalel, in 1965, converted into a museum in Israel. For many years, the museum exhibits, and publishes many of these works, they are all cataloged and available at the museum. A search of their former owners and, when possible, and restitution of works. A recent study of provenance patterns Klee allowed to set the name of the holder, ie, Fulda.

Harry Fuld, who died in 1963, bequeathed all his property housekeeper Gisela Martin Gita (Gita Gisela Martin). Accordingly, it is also the legitimate heir to the "Dancing with a veil." Geeta Gisela Martin has already announced a donation of paintings of a charitable organization Magen David Adom (the Jewish equivalent of the Red Cross "). Previously, the heiress of the same organization gave other property H. Fulda.

This is not the first restitution, held in the Israel Museum. In 2000 the museum returned the painting by Camille Pissarro "Boulevard Montmartre in 1897 of Holocaust victims to Max Zilberberg (Max Silberberg). In 2005, was returned to painting by Edgar Degas Four nude dancers a rest. " And in 2008 in Poland were returned two ancient Roman medallion, one of which the Israel Museum to keep the conditions for long-term lease.

material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

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