Now the Bavarian museums, returns the product to their rightful owners, do not have to pay restitution in excess of compensation to the State

Rudolf von Alt
Old North Station, Vienna
Source: bloomberg.com

Bavarian Landtag (state parliament) has simplified the law to make it easier to conduct restitution. Previously, the laws of the Free State of Bavaria museums obliged to reimburse the cost of any lost property to the state. This rule applies to cases of restitution. Now, for the cases of restitution to the victims of Nazism made an exception.

in laws it was decided to amend after the heirs of the prewar owner failed to recover their legally watercolor Rudolf von Alt (Rudolf von Alt ). Jewish Haysfeld Valerie (Valerie Heissfeld) was forced to flee from Vienna to Czechoslovakia in 1938, but she was arrested and sent to a concentration camp, where she died in 1942. Four watercolors by Rudolf von Alt from the collection of Haysfeldov confiscated by the Nazis and allowed to go under the hammer. Work "Old North Station, Vienna, bought the personal secretary to Hitler, Martin Bormann (Martin Bormann). After the war, along with other works of art formerly in the hands of senior Nazis, watercolor hit the Bavarian state museums - to be precise, the Munich State graphic collection.

This museum institution has recognized the claim of heirs Valerie Haysfeld fair, but the job did not return because the money to pay compensation to the museum was not enough. The product is estimated at 20,000 euros (28,5 thousand dollars).

Last week, usually for compensation was abolished Bavarian Landtag. This decision approved by the Commission to search for stolen cultural property in Europe (Commission for Looted Art in Europe /CLAE). Committee Chair Anna Webber (Anne Webber) hopes to continue the case for restitution in Bavaria will be quickly resolved in favor of the heirs.

in the Bavarian state art collections after the war has passed over 800 works from the collections of Hitler , Eva Braun, Goering, Bormann and other Nazis. According to estimates representative of the organization Art Provenance Research Andrea Bambi (Andrea Bambi), return of restitution would have to be at best a few dozen jobs. Over the past 10 years, Bavaria's museums have returned a total of eight works, each time to compensate the state.

material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Source: bloomberg.com , artinvestment.ru