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Thursday, 17 September 2015 11:20

The Bristol Museum Will Keep a Renoir Painting Once Sold at a Nazi Auction

The Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. The Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. Wikipedia

A Nazi-era restitution claim for a Renoir landscape at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery has been rejected. The Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended in a report that The Coast at Cagnes, Sea, Mountains (around 1910) should not be returned to the heirs of Jakob and Rosa Oppenheimer because there is insufficient evidence that it had been the subject of a Nazi forced sale in Berlin. The Oppenheimers, a German Jewish couple, had fled to France in 1933. Jakob died in an internment camp in 1941 and Rosa was murdered in Auschwitz two years later.

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