Fritz Grünbaum (Q87857)

After tediously fighting for two artworks by Egon Schiele, the heirs of Franz Friedrich ‘Fritz’ Grünbaum (1880-1941), a famous cabaret singer from Austria and a vocal critic of the Nazi party, are one step closer to possibly bringing the artworks home. On July 16th, a panel of five judges in a New York Appellate court unanimously upheld a 2018 ruling that favoured Grünbaum’s heirs, Timothy Reif and David Frankel, on the return of Woman in a Black Pinafore (1911) and Woman Hiding her Face (1912). (English)

Girl with Black Hair

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Two More Nazi-Looted Egon Schiele Works Have Been Returned to the Heirs of a Jewish Collector

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https://news.artnet.com/art-world/two-egon-schiele-works-returned-grunbaum-2421063

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perished in the Holocaust

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https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/heirs-of-holocaust-victim-fritz-31039/

claim for restitution of an artwork

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Leopold Museum Defends Against Restitution Claims

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https://news.artnet.com/market/leopold-museum-defends-against-restitution-claims-155983

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https://www.lostart.de/sites/default/files/attachment/document/initial-import/CM1373060_2.pdf

restitution of Nazi-looted art

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2022

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https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6397612

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PROVENANCEFranz Friedrich "Fritz" Grünbaum, Vienna (by 1938).Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern (1956).Galerie St. Etienne, New York (acquired from the above, 1956).William Lincer, New York (acquired from the above, 1957).Galerie St. Etienne, New York (acquired from the above, 1968).Morris Moscowitz, St. Louis, Missouri (acquired from the above, 1968).Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 18 May 1978, lot 123a.Doris Rubin, New York (by 2007). Richard Nagy, London (acquired from the Estate of the above, 18 December 2013). Restituted to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum (2022). (English)

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https://www.christies.com/about-us/press-archive/details?PressReleaseID=10708&lid=1

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New York— Christie’s is honored to include two important works on paper by Egon Schiele – formerly in the collection of the Viennese cabaret and film star Fritz Grünbaum – in the 20th Century Evening Sale taking place live on 17 November 2022 at Rockefeller Center. These two works trace Schiele’s development during 1911-1912, two crucial years in his brief career. The works were part of the collection numbering in the hundreds of works that Fritz Grünbaum – said to be the inspiration for Joel Gray’s character in the Broadway musical Cabaret – assembled in Vienna in the first decades of the last century. The collection was lost when the Nazis invaded Austria in the late 1930s, and both Mr. Grünbaum and his wife were sent to concentration camps where they perished. These two works were recently restituted to the Grünbaum family. (English)

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London dealer ordered to return Egon Schiele works worth $5m to heirs of Holocaust victims

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https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/richard-nagy-ordered-to-return-egon-schiele-watercolours-to-heirs-of-holocaust-victims

restitution of Nazi-looted art

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2023

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Two More Museums Return Egon Schiele Artworks to Heirs of Jewish Art Collector

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https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/allen-memorial-art-museum-carnegie-museum-egon-schiele-fritz-grunbaum-1234681204/

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The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Ohio’s Oberlin College and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh will voluntarily return works by Egon Schiele to the family of Fritz Grünbaum after the Manhattan District Attorney’s office issued warrants for them last month.The seizure warrants were issued as part of a criminal investigation based on the claims the Schiele works had been stolen from Grünbaum, a Jewish art collector who was forced to liquidate his assets during his internment at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.The returned works by Schiele are the pencil-on-paper drawing Portrait of a Man (1917), from the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the watercolor-and-pencil on paper work Girl With Black Hair (1911), from Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum. (English)

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https://www.lostart.de/sites/default/files/attachment/document/initial-import/CM1373060_2.pdf

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