Painting max Liebermann's "Two riders on the beach" is set for £550 thousand great-nephew of the pre-war owner

One of the first works from the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt, returned to the restitution offered for auction at Sotheby's on 24 June 2015 with an estimate of £350-550 thousand This painting German impressionist max Liebermann's "Two riders on the beach". In may 2015 it was placed at the disposal of David Toren (David Toren), Grand nephew of the pre-war owner. Torino now 90 years old, and he's blind, but still remembers this picture with riders hanging in the Conservatory in the house his great-grandfather David Friedman (David Friedmann). Toren said that although he is the only one of the heirs Friedman, who saw this work with my own eyes, however, they took a joint decision to sell it. "Let her be able to see and appreciate someone else if I can't do that," said the blind man Naslednik@

David Friedman earned a fortune in the manufacture of bricks. But with the coming to power of the Nazis, he began to take his property. All over the fact that Friedman was forced to bequeath all his property in favor of the Nazi General Ewald von Kleist (Ewald von Kleist). It so happened that his nephew David Toren have to witness this. That morning father David Toren was arrested by Gestapo agents. However, because he was lawyer David Friedman, his presence was required at the signing of the necessary papers to transfer the property to von Kleist. Father Torana were taken under escort to the Villa Friedman, and 13-year-old boy accompanied him for the last time to be with the father. At Villa he was told to wait outside, while there was a signing of papers. And then David Toren last saw a picture of Lieberman on the wall in winter Sadu@

David Friedman died a natural death in 1942. His only daughter died in Auschwitz. David's parents Torana died in the same concentration camp, and the boy was saved during large-scale rescue operation to save Jewish children in the "Kindertransport". He grew up in Sweden, and later emigrated to the USA where he still lives today. All works from the collection of his great-grandfathers were confiscated. Painting max Liebermann eventually fell into the hands of art dealer Hildebrandt Gurlitt, whose son Cornelius decades was hiding in his Munich apartment of about 1,500 works of art from the collection of father. And by the way, painting max Liebermann was one of the few that have been awarded places on the wall in the apartment of Cornelius, not stacked in boxes. Because of this it is very well preserved. In 2012 alone, about the collection Gurlitt became aware of the tax police, and only two years later became the talk of the world. Cornelius Gurlitt, who died at the age of 81 years, the eve of his death bequeathed his Art collection to the Museum of the city of Bern. Now the Museum is searching for heirs disputed robot@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: telegraph.co.uk, artinvestment.ru