The gift includes paintings, drawings, antique furniture, jewelry, etc. — all from the collection of Alphonse and Clarissa de Rothschild, once seized by the Nazis

Boston Museum of fine arts gave 186 items from the collection of Alphonse and Clarissa de Rothschild. A collection worth millions of dollars was donated to the Museum granddaughter Clarissa and Alphonse - Bettina Burr (Bettina Burr). The donation includes paintings, drawings, antique furniture, works of European decorative art, jewelry. Among the gems collection  emerald brooch in the style of art Deco, donated by Alfonso Clarissa for the 25th anniversary of their marriage. One of the best paintings in the collection - "Portrait of Emma HART", the future Lady Hamilton, painted by George Romney (George Romney). This canvas, as well as another 13 works, including some furniture, go to the Museum only after the death of Bettina Burr. Other things can be seen in the Boston Museum of fine arts soon: from 1 March to 21 June will put 80 predmetov@

the History of the art collection of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild family complete restorative twists and turns. Their collection, purchased with money from the banking business, mining and railway construction, was comparable with the collection of Prince Liechtenstein. But it was all removed from their Viennese Palace by the Nazis in 1939, during the Anschluss. The family fled to the United States via Switzerland and England. And their collection at that time was run by the Nazis. Some of the most valuable works were selected for the planned Führer Museum in Linz. However, when the allies began bombing of Vienna, the collection was hidden in salt mines in the suburbs. 3 500 works were subsequently returned to the Rothschilds. But the happiness of the family was incomplete: the 250 most valuable work they were forced to "give" the Austrian government in exchange for permission to take the rest of the collection in the USA. And only in the late 1990s, after the signing of the Washington agreements on the promotion of restitution collections of Holocaust victims, this portion of the meeting returned Rotchild@

Many of the returned items were for the next year sold at auction for almost $ 90 million. The rest of the collection now promised the Boston Museum of fine arts. The choice of Bettina Burr fell on this institution, because the girl she was there for practice, and in the mid-1990s, joined the Board of Trustees of the Museum. Now deceased mother Bettina, the daughter of Alphonse and Clarissa, even when life is fully endorsed this choice. "My mother agreed that it would be good," says the administrator. All these things will be here together. They will not be scattered to different corners of the world to be hidden in the living room all the nobles. They will be here, if people want it, and I know that they will take care of properly obrazom@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: nytimes.com, bostonglobe.com, forward.com, artinvestment.ru