Zimmerly Art Museum (New Brunswick, NJ) gave a rare portrait of the XVI century brush Hans Baldunga Green grandson of the prewar owners

HANS BALDUNG GREEN
Portrait of a young man. 1509
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Zimmerly Art Museum at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ) returned for the Restitution of a rare portrait of the XVI century German painter Hans brush Baldunga Green (Hans Baldung Grien). Before the war, "Portrait of young man" (1509) owned by Frederick and his wife Louise Goodman (Friedrich and Louise Goodman /Gutmann), victims of the Holocaust. At the end of last week's picture from their faces took his grandson Simon Goodman (Simon Goodman).

collection of art spouses Goodman includes about 60 paintings, including works by Bosch, Botticelli, Cranach, Holbein and Memling, as well as the Impressionists by Degas and Renoir. Until 1941 the whole assembly was kept in the family patrimony Goodman Bosbik (Bosbeek) close to the Netherlands in Harlem.

Collection banker Goodman was well known in Europe, and her interest in German art dealer Karl Haberstok (Karl Haberstock), who worked with Hitler. The dealer met in Paris with Agent Goodman and demanded to give him seven paintings collection, including a portrait of Baldunga. Agent is apparently required to do so, however, when the parcel arrived in Berlin, "Portrait of young man" in it was not. (After the war, Agent Goodman once again officially declared that sent all seven pictures.)

For these seven masterpieces of the Nazis initially promised Goodman family the right to free emigration to Italy, but the couple was arrested in 1943 in Bosbike and sent to concentration camp Theresienstadt. Frederick where he died, his wife Louisa died in Auschwitz.

Immediately after the war, their children, Bernard and Lily Goodman, began to look for stolen painting by the Nazis. Since then, the controversy surrounding the collection of restitution of this family significantly change the overall policies of the restitution of property of Holocaust victims. High-profile case of Degas pastels led to the convening of the conference of 44 States in 1998, which were signed by Washington's position. According to this document, the authorities undertake a detailed review of provenance are in public meetings "contentious" work to publish information about them and to encourage the legitimate owners to apply for them, and make its archives accessible to the public.

And only in 2010, the son of Bernard Goodman, Simon found the portrait in the pages of a rare catalog-Raisonné 1983 German art historian Gert von der Osten (Gert von der Osten). In the catalog of the fate of paintings after the war, said evasively: from 1948 to 1950 she owned a "London dealer" (and this despite extensive searches heirs and open court cases the governments of France and West Germany). In 1953 the painting was delivered to New York dealers and Shtibelyu Rosenberg (Rosenberg and Stiebel), who sold or gave it to Rudolf Heinemann (Rudolf Heinemann). In 1959, Heineman handed "Portrait of a young man," Rutgers University, where he was until the recent events.

Goodman family to the request for the restitution portrait Baldunga The museum Zimmerly treated very seriously. Almost a year had gone to investigate the circumstances of the case. As a result, now the rightful owners returned voluntarily. Heirs of Friedrich and Louise Goodman, who had to deal with so many museums around the world, professionalism and courtesy of staff Zimmerly exemplary. The news of successful restitution gladly received in Florence daughter of Friedrich and Louise Goodman, Lily, who is now already in 1991.

material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

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