Brian McDonald
A museum in Switzerland will remove five famous paintings from one of its exhibitions while it investigates whether they were looted by the Nazis.
O Zurich Kunsthaus Museum said the decision to remove the paintings comes after the publication of new guidelines aimed at dealing with pieces of art that have not yet been returned to the families from whom they were stolen during the Second World War.
The parts are part Emil Bührle Collectionwhich was named after a German-born arms dealer who made a fortune during World War II by manufacturing and selling weapons to the Nazis.
The pieces under investigation are “Jardin de Monet à Giverny” by Claude Monet, “Portrait of the Sculptor Louis-Joseph” by Gustave Courbet, “Georges-Henri Manuel” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “The Old Tower” by Vincent van Gogh and “La route montante”, by Paul Gauguin.
The founding board of the Emil Bührle Collection said in a declaration made a “commitment to seeking a fair and equitable solution for these works with the legal successors of the former owners, following best practices”.
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Earlier this year, 20 countries, including Switzerland, agreed to new best practices from the U.S. State Department on how to deal with Nazi-looted art. The guidelines were issued to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1998 Washington Conference Principles, which focused on the restitution of stolen or forcibly sold items.
Stuart Eizenstat, special adviser to the US Secretary of State on Holocaust issues, said in March that some 600,000 works of art and millions of books and religious objects were stolen during World War II “with the same efficiency, brutality and scale than the Holocaust itself.” “
“The Holocaust was not just the greatest genocide in world history,” he said during a speech. address at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. “It was also the largest property theft in history.”
According to CBS News BBC PartnerThe principles are an important resource for families seeking to recover looted art because, under Swiss law, no legal claims for restitution or compensation for works from the Bührle collection can be brought today due to the statute of limitations.
A sixth work in the collection, “La Sultane” by Edouard Manet, was also subjected to closer scrutiny, but the foundation’s board said it did not believe in the new guidelines applied to it and that the painting would be considered separately, the BBC reported.
“Due to the general historical circumstances surrounding the sale, the Foundation is prepared to offer a financial contribution to the estate of Max Silberberg out of respect for the tragic fate of the former owner,” the foundation stated.
Silberberg was a German-Jewish industrialist whose art collection was sold at auctions forced by the Nazis. He is believed to have been murdered in Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp during the Holocaust.
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