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Jan van de Velde
winter landscape. Around 1620-1630
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receiving for the Restitution of the work of artist Jan the Netherlands Van de Velde (Jan Van de Velde), the descendants of its pre-war owner, Professor Curt Glaser (Curt Glaser), sold it back to the Rijksmuseum.
Professor Curt Glaser served as director of the Berlin State Art library, when it in 1933, the Nazis forced to resign under the law forbade Jews to occupy positions of German civil servants. On top of that, he was forced to leave the apartment occupied by the municipal street Prince Albrecht in Berlin. Soon after, Kurt Glaser ever left his former home, in this building Gestapo arranged themselves headquarters.
Glazer, who has lost jobs and homes, forbidden to publish articles on the art scene in Germany in any German editions, which was equivalent to the complete overlap of the oxygen. Nothing to do but to leave this country forever, so that Glazer had to sell his entire collection of art at auction in Berlin in May 1933. After World War II, the heirs of Glaser, who had no idea about the location of works from his collection, said its loss in court authorities. The authorities agreed that the meeting had disappeared during the Nazi persecution, and the heirs paid a small compensation.
In 1998, after the Washington Agreements, regulate the restitution of art objects, in the Netherlands was established to commission , which was to check whether the Dutch museums controversial works. As a result of these searches with the heirs of Glazer contacted the management at the Rijksmuseum painting "Winter Landscape" by Jan van de Velde (Jan Van de Velde). Dutch restorative committee recommended to return the painting to Restitution Glaser heirs, and made that Rijksmuseum.
Through mutual responsibility and respect, the dispute was resolved fairly quickly: the heirs sold the picture of Van de Velde Rijksmuseum back funds for the museum provided a private sponsor .
Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI
Sources < /strong>: artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru
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