Max Liebermann
Return Tobias. 1934
Source: artdaily.com

Israel Museum in Jerusalem last Thursday announced the restitution of the picture of Max Lieberman (Max Liebermann) «The Return of Tobias." Cloth in 1934 was transferred to the heirs of the artist in Berlin.

outstanding German painter Max Liebermann Jewish (1847-1935) for many years headed the creative association of avant-garde Artists Berlin Secession, and in the 1920s - early 1930s led the Berlin Academy of Arts. The artist died in 1935 at age 88. Shortly before his death, Mr. Lieberman gave the painting "The Return of Tobias," opened in 1933 the Jewish Museum in Berlin. But the Nazis soon closed the museum, and works from his exhibition have disappeared during the Second World War.

created after the war, on the initiative of American Jewish restitution organization hereditary (Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, JRSO) took up search for stolen Nazi art. The work, whose former owners were unknown, were distributed to various Jewish organizations around the world. This picture of Lieberman, along with thousands of other works that appeared in the Jerusalem Bezalel National Museum, a converted in 1965 in the Israel Museum.

Israel Museum decades of its existence distinguishes vigilant attitude toward the restitution. The museum exhibits and publishes many of the jobs assigned to it JRSO, they are all cataloged and available at the museum. A search for their former owners and, where possible, the restitution of works carried out. All the museum was returned to former owners or their heirs about 30 works ( recently, for example, the descendants of Harry Fulda, Jr. gave a picture of Paul Klee ).

In the last year studied art provenance painting "The Return of Tobias," during preparations for the exhibition of stolen art New Synagogue Berlin Centrum Judaicum, for which the Israel Museum has agreed to provide 12 works from its collection. When the history of existence became known picture of Lieberman, the museum director James Snyder (James Snyder) has decided to leave her heirs after the Berlin exhibition Lieberman.

«Return Tobias" - this is the third work, returned to the restitution of the heirs of Lieberman's Israel Museum. Plot for the film was the scene from the biblical Book of Tobit: Tovy returned to his father Tobit of his blindness cure against.

Leumi Shimon (Shimon Leumi) of Shorashim art gallery in Tel Aviv, praised the work of 150-200 thousand dollars. Leumi said that Lieberman's work on the art market today are sold between 100 thousand to 1 million dollars and the price of its products in Germany is growing rapidly.

Prepared Onuchina Maria, AI

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