Amsterdam, Netherlands – The heirs of Jewish art collector Ernst Flersheim from Frankfurt, are legally entitled to buy back a painting confiscated from Flersheim in 1938 by the Nazis, a Dutch art restitution committee announced today.
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The committee, , said the current owner, the Zeeland Museum Fund, bought the painting in 1981 for 150,000 Dutch guilders (68,181 euros), and the fund did not know at the time the painting had been confiscated in 1938.
Therefore it ruled that although the fund was obligated to return the painting to its legal heirs, the family has to pay the fund 121,500 euros (194,320 dollars) for its return. [earthtimes]
Let them pay by granting the museum a lien against the fees they recover from the nazis who stole it from them, less of course their acquisition and maintenance costs until the time it was first stolen from them by the evil nazis.