ARTISTS
Painting, nabbed by Nazis, returned to Jew's heirs
A 16th-century Italian painting of St Jerome that was seized by Nazis from Jewish art dealer Max Stern, was returned.
AFP
06 May, 2009
NEW YORK, May 6, 2009 (AFP) - A 16th-century Italian painting of St Jerome that was seized by Nazis from Jewish art dealer Max Stern, was returned Wednesday, decades later, to the heirs of his collection.
聽聽 The image painted by Ludovico Carraci (1555-1619) was returned to the heirs by New York art collector Richard Feigen who had bought it in Germany in 2000.
聽聽 New York prosecutors said Feigen learned in January that the portrait he bought was on a list of art Stern owned that was seized by the Nazis, when another work was returned to his heirs -- a 17th century portrait of a bagpiper by a Flemish master.
聽聽 Concordia University and McGill University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are the heirs of Stern's collection. He lived in Canada before his death in 1987.
聽聽 The image painted by Ludovico Carraci (1555-1619) was returned to the heirs by New York art collector Richard Feigen who had bought it in Germany in 2000.
聽聽 New York prosecutors said Feigen learned in January that the portrait he bought was on a list of art Stern owned that was seized by the Nazis, when another work was returned to his heirs -- a 17th century portrait of a bagpiper by a Flemish master.
聽聽 Concordia University and McGill University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are the heirs of Stern's collection. He lived in Canada before his death in 1987.