At Sotheby's will exhibit received restitution now Coro
Cloth, which formerly belonged to the Dutch museum Kreller-Muller, estimated to be 1,2-1,8 million
Among the previous owners of the picture - the patron Claude Monet (Claude Monet) Oshede collector Ernest (Ernest Hoschedé) and the owner of Limoges porcelain factory ALLUES Charles (Charles Alluaud). In 1889, the work became the Hamburg banker Edward Ludwig Behrens (Eduard Ludwig Behrens).
Family Behrens collected one of the best collections in the city. Greatest interest to them was the German art of the XIX century. In 1938, the heir Behrens, George, was arrested by the Nazis, who stole his family business and sent him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In order to obtain an exit visa to Belgium, he was forced to give the Germans all their possessions.
from Belgium banker fled to France, where he was again imprisoned in the camp. Fortunately, he managed to acquire the Cuban visa, and eventually he left Europe. After the war, Behrens returned to Hamburg, where he lived until 1956. Meeting, he had not returned.
In the early 1940's the Berlin art dealer Hans W. Lange (Hans W. Lange) bought the painting for the museum of Coro Kreller-Muller, who is in the Dutch city of Otterlo. The work was purchased with money received as compensation for the three paintings that the Nazis confiscated from the museum and have ordained for display in the museum of the Fuhrer "in the Austrian city of Linz.
« Girl at the Well " stayed in the museum Kreller-Müller 66 years. In 2008 the painting was returned to the heirs Behrens. They also managed to negotiate the restitution of the other two paintings, one of which was bought by the museum. Heirs also received monetary compensation for one job. Now they are negotiating the return of two paintings.
Auction record for creativity Corot is the sum of 4,75 million dollars. So much has brought the picture "The Algerian Jewish woman, sold at Sotheby's in November 2007.
According to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, over 12 years of Hitler's Nazis stole collectors and cultural institutions about 650 thousand works of art. Lot of work had been confiscated from Jewish industrialists and intellectuals who were among the biggest collectors of art in pre-war Germany.
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