Category: judicial procedure

In the News: Chicago Museum Clinging To Nazi-Looted Art, NY Court Told

Law360, New York (August 29, 2024, 6:47 PM EDT) — A prosecutor in the Manhattan DistrictAttorney’s Office argued in court Thursday that the Art Institute of Chicago is ignoring the horrors of the Nazi regime as it “desperately” attempts to hold onto a Holocaust victim’s stolen Egon Schiele drawing.

Law360, New York (29. August 2024, 18:47 Uhr EDT) – Ein Staatsanwalt der Staatsanwaltschaft von Manhattan argumentierte am Donnerstag vor Gericht, dass das Art Institute of Chicago die Schrecken des Nazi-Regimes ignoriert, während es „verzweifelt“ versucht, die gestohlene Egon-Schiele-Zeichnung eines Holocaust-Opfers zu behalten.

 

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Jonathan Petropoulos Rebuttal Report

Jonathan Petropoulos research and scholarship from 2008 to the present reaffirms that Fritz Grünbaum lost his art collection, including the Artworks, due to Nazispoliation. Historical records show that both Fritz Grünbaum’s property and the property of his wife and widow, Elisabeth Grünbaum (“Elisabeth”), were under the control of “Aryan” trustee Ludwig Rochlitzer who was appointed by the Nazis to liquidate their property in January 1939 pursuant to the 3 December 1938 Aryan Trustee Act.
In his striking report he summerizes and discusses the direct evidence showing Nazi control of Fritz Grünbaum’s art collection in 1939 through his death in 1941.

The evidence that the Nazis had custody of Fritz Grünbaum (imprisoned in the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps) and his artworks (stored and “blocked” in a Schenker & Co. warehouse, an entity utilized by the Nazis to despoil property) is overwhelming, reliable, and uncontroverted.

Jonathan Petropoulos Rebuttal Report

Press Clipping: Panel Allows Stolen Artwork Claims to Move Forward

 

Jason Grant
April 19, 2017

“Collateral estoppel requires the issue to be indentical to that determined in the prior proceeding,” the panel said. “[That has not]…been shown here where the purchaser, the pieces, and the time over which the pieces were held differ significantly.”

The lawsuite is part of a long-running fight to reclaim art once owned by Austrian Jew Fritz Grunbaum, who amassed a rare 449-piece art collection that was confiscated by Nazis in 1938, his heirs say. Grunbaum died at the Dachau concetration camp.

Read the full article here : http://m.newyorklawjournal.com/#/article/1202784114427/11/Panel

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