Leopold Museum continues to settle disputes restitution
Egon Schiele House of the sea. 1914
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Director of Vienna's Leopold Museum Ditard seems to be going keep his word and resolve all disputes over restitution collection his late father for a year . In June museum to auction painting by Egon Schiele's "The House with a colorful linen» to get the funds to pay $ 19 million compensation for the" Portrait of a Valley ». The museum hopes that the funds from the sale of houses with colorful linens "enough for adjustment and other restorative dispute. For example, around a picture of Egon Schiele "Houses on the sea, illegally confiscated by the Nazis from collector Jenny Steiner (Jenny Steiner).
Eugenia (Jenny) Steiner (1863, Budapest - 1958, New York York) was the owner of his own silk factory and a passionate collector of art. In 1938, immediately after the annexation of Austria, she fled to Paris and later emigrated to the United States. Urban landscape by Egon Schiele's "House on the Sea" (1914), together with other works from the collection of Steiner was confiscated by the Nazis. His attempt to sell at auction Dorotheum in 1940, but the buyer was not found. The following year, at the same bid sheet acquired Josephine Ernst (Josefine Ernst). Her son, Johann Ernst in 1955 sold the landscape Rudolf Leopold, for whom this work became one of the key to the rich collection of works by Schiele.
Recently an agreement was reached with the sole surviving heir to the line pattern . Leopold Museum Private Foundation will pay the granddaughter of Jenny Steiner $ 5 million for her right to a third of the product.
rights belong to two-thirds of American institutions, inherited it from others, now deceased, the heirs of Jenny Steiner . Leopold Museum hopes to buy out their share of the work, these institutions have already sent the appropriate requests. For Vienna is now more important that amicably settled all issues with the only direct heir. It is hoped that the "House of the sea" will remain in the museum's permanent exhibition. And while that picture, accompanied by text about its provenance, once again appear in the halls of the Museum Leopold - a sign of respect and reverence for her late owner.
material was prepared by Maria Onuchina AI
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