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A 19th-century painting stolen from a Jewish family in 1933 was discovered in a small museum in Albany, New York, United States, and returned after 87 years, local police said Thursday.
“Winter” (“Winter”), title of the painting by the American artist Gari Melchers, was part of a collection of more than a thousand works of art stolen from the wealthy Mosse family of Berlin, which soon became a target of the Nazi party . , in Germany.
The family heirs, who have been investigating the whereabouts of the stolen pieces with the support of the authorities, as part of the Mosse art restitution project, received the painting during a repatriation ceremony for the piece that took place in the Albany Police Facilities.
“The Mosse family lost almost everything because they were Jewish. But they did not lose hope,” said the lawyer in the case, Antoinette Bacon, adding that the return “does not remove the pain inflicted, but represents at least a form of justice.”
This project, started in 2011, has already located and returned to the heirs more than 50 stolen pieces of art that were found in public and private museums, as well as in the hands of individuals in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Israel and the United States.
“Winter”, depicting two young men on snow skates, was bought in 1900 by the publishing magnate Rudolf Mosse, who had exhibited it in a large Berlin residence filled with objets d’art.
The painting was to be sold at auction in May 1934 to an anonymous buyer, and five months later it was on display in a New York gallery, where it was purchased by Bartlett Arkell, a wealthy collector who put it in a museum that holds your name. in Canajoharie, upstate New York.
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