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San Francisco (APA / AP) – Two paintings stolen by the Nazis by Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) are expected to remain in a California museum following a prescription of the court. According to a ruling by the US Court of Appeals on Monday, the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena is the lawful owner of the two-part altarpiece with a life-size representation of Adam and Eve.
also referred to previous case law in the Netherlands. For Marei von Saher, heir to Jewish art collector Jacques Goudstikker, the long-standing legal conflict ends in defeat
According to the court records, Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Göring sells the merchant's family. Art escaped Jacques Goudstikker from Amsterdam 1940 and other forced images. After the Second World War, the Allies made the art stolen in the Netherlands. At that time, the Goudstikker family decided not to recover the works. The Netherlands sold them to the Russian Stroganoff family in the 1960s and, in 1971, the California Museum acquired the paintings, valued at $ 24 million today.
The museum was happy to hear the verdict. This should ultimately solve this problem, citing the "San Francisco Chronicle" from a museum message. Cranach's works should remain open to the public.
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