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| The Other Perfesser: Oberlin College’s 17-Year Refusal To Return Artwork Stolen By The Nazis From A Jewish Holocaust Victim | |
| 2023-10-02 | |
[LegalInsurrection] The Manhattan D.A. recently issued a criminal seizure warrant for ‘Girl With Black Hair’ in the possession of Oberlin College’s Allen Museum. Court records in a civil case reveal that the college has been fighting at least since 2006 against return of the drawing. This is in contrast to the college’s repatriation of an item of Native American craft returned to the Nez Perce tribe in 2002. Are items stolen from Jews during the Holocaust less worthy of return than items obtained from Native American tribes?
The D.A. is attempting to recover that drawing and others located at other museums and private collections, which were stolen by the Nazis from Fritz Grünbaum, a prominent Jewish art collector and cabaret artist, who was forced under duress to sign over rights to his collection as part of the Nazi confiscation of Jewish property, while interned at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, where he died in 1941. While the criminal warrant to Oberlin College and two other institutions put the dispute in the current headlines, the Grünbaum heirs have have been trying at least since 2006 to get Oberlin College to return the drawing, to no avail. We have not seen that long history reported before, and we learned of it while reviewing court filings in a civil case filed against Oberlin College and others in late 2022, which Oberlin College also is fighting. Among other things, Oberlin College disputes the constitutionality of applying the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Not sure I ever met a periguerry expressionist I didn't like, artwise, but what a weirdo old Egon was... In a world where Entartete Kunst Gets you burned [cue Keanu und Dunst], A town without pity... A clown who liked... "Did he?" Could Nazis be right... just this oncet? Nah. But speaking of degeneracy... stumbled across this a link or two away: Today in Eurotrash History [creepy Gainsbourg record released, 1984] |
| Posted by: Gleaper Glease9526 2023-10-02 23:58 |
| #1 One of my brothers is a grad. Seems like somebody super- glued Oberlin’s moral compass. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-10-02 12:46 |