Hungary for the first time spoke of the restitution of works of art
U.S. Court of Appeals did not allow the Hungarian government to reject the 100 millionth suit heirs of Jewish collectors Mora Lipot Herzog
Cabinet Mora Lipot Herzog with paintings by El Greco
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Hungary for the first time spoke of the restitution of works of art. In mid-April, the head of the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban (Viktor Orban) Janos Lazar (Janos Lazar) said that his unit is a list of the disputed works in the collections of the state museums to return the product once seized by the Nazis to their rightful owners or their heirs.
Statement Janos Lazar has given hope for a positive outcome of their litigation restitution heirs of Jewish collectors Mora Lipot Herzog, who has more than twenty years trying to return the paintings worth about $ 100 million from the collections of the National Museums of Hungary.
works from the collection of the banker Herzog - paintings by El Greco, Francisco de Zurbaran, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Velasquez, Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet and others - today belong to the collections of the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest Museum of Art , the Museum of Applied Arts and the Budapest University of Technology. In the last two granddaughters collector Angela Maria and Julia Alice and his great-grandson, David de SHEPELEV filed a lawsuit against the Hungarian government in a U.S. court in 2010 . However Hungary required to close the deal, citing the US-Hungarian agreement in 1973, and the American law on immunity foreign governments to lawsuits in the U.S. .
Federal Court in Washington in September 2011 ruled that the heirs of Baron Mora Lipot Herzog still have the right to sue Hungary . The Hungarian government has filed an appeal, but the April 19, 2013 U.S. Court of Appeals did not allow the Hungarian government to reject the 100 millionth suit Herzog heirs. And in the light of the above statement Janos Lazar scenario with a happy ending for the heirs become more affordable. However, no specifics as to what kind of work will come back in a statement the head of administration was not. But on the Hungarian side definitely blew the wind of change.
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