Madonna and Child
Attributed Flemalskomu master (1st half of the XV century)
Source: artdaily.com

Concordia University in Montreal (Canada) went to the restitution of the early Renaissance painting, attributed to brush Flemalskogo Master (1410 -40s). "Madonna and Child" from 1948 was in the State Gallery in Stuttgart, but its real owners are the heirs of Düsseldorf gallerist Max Stern. Who fled from Nazi persecution in Canada Max Stern never had a family. So after his death in 1987, the rights to the picture Flemalskogo masters, as well as hundreds of others now wanted works from the collection of Stern were inherited from Concordia University and McGill University in Montreal and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Max Stern inherited the gallery's collection of his father Julius in 1934. However, already in 1935, the Nazis forced him to close the gallery and sell at auction for more than 200 works. This auction in 1937, which is now considered illegal, stripped of most of the Max Stern collection. In 1938, he fled to London, and in 1941 he moved to Montreal. Researchers believe that the "Madonna with Child" Flemalskogo master (most often it is identified with Robert Kampen, 1378-1444) was sold by Stern forced: to buy a permit to travel to Canada for his mother needed money. In Montreal, Max Stern returned to his gallery business, and pretty successful in it. However, in the return of its Düsseldorf meeting he almost achieved nothing.

Since 2002, universities have inherited rights to a collection of Stern, have engaged in active job search. For 10 years, however, of the approximately 400 works meeting Stern managed to return only ten - including work Jan Brueghel Younger , Lodovico Carracci and « Portrait of a musician "by an unknown author XVII century .

Prepared Maria Onuchina , AI

Source: artinvestment.ru