Wildensteins Sued Over Looted Art (Q107562857)
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| English | Wildensteins Sued Over Looted Art |
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Wildensteins Sued Over Looted Art (English)
Felicia R. Lee
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28 July 1999
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The suit states that the manuscripts were stolen by the Nazis in October 1940 from Kann's home in St. Germain-en-Laye near Paris. The whereabouts of the manuscripts were unknown to the Kanns, the suit continues, until they appeared at a Wildenstein & Company gallery in Manhattan in November 1996.Kann, a well-known Jewish art collector from the 1920's to 1940's, fled France in 1939 and died in London in 1948. The lawsuit states that he had over 1,200 artworks in his home, including paintings by Picasso, Manet, Matisse and Degas. (American English)
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Heirs of Alphonse Kann filed a lawsuit yesterday against the Wildenstein family, among the art world's best-known dealers, claiming that the Wildensteins stole eight rare manuscripts worth about $15 million after the they were looted from the Kanns by the Nazis in occupied France. (British English)
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The family brought a lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages against Hector Feliciano, an American writer who repeated some of those allegations in his book ''The Lost Museum.''Last month a French court rejected the Wildensteins' claim that the writer had acted with ''serious and flagrant scorn for searching for the truth'' in suggesting ties between Georges Wildenstein, then head of the family business, and Nazi dealers. . (English)