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The\u00a0Stedelijk Museum<\/a>\u00a0in Amsterdam will return a\u00a0Henri Matisse<\/a>\u00a0painting to the heirs of a Jewish textile manufacturer who sold the piece while fleeing Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n

The institution\u00a0announced on June 25<\/a>\u00a0that the Dutch Restitutions Committee had published its binding advice on the restitution of Matisse\u2019\u00a0Odalisque<\/em>\u00a0(1920\/21) to the legal successors of Albert Stern. The committee concluded \u201cit is sufficiently plausible that the sale of the painting was connected to the measures taken by the occupying forces against Jewish members of the population and arose from a desire for self-preservation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stern\u2019s heirs were represented by the Commission for Looted Art in Europe. The organization\u00a0said in a statement<\/a>\u00a0that the investigation it conducted \u201cconclusively demonstrated that the family was subjected to persecution from 1933 onwards, first in Germany where they lived and then from 1937 in the Netherlands where they had fled and where they were gradually stripped of their possessions and their livelihood. They made several unsuccessful efforts to escape and eventually were forced to sell their remaining possessions to try to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the Nazis took power, Stern\u2019s career as a textile manufacturer in Germany was incredibly successful, especially his company\u2019s retail sales and exports of ready-to-wear women\u2019s clothing.<\/p>\n

Albert\u2019s wife Marie had studied art and painting before their marriage, and was responsible for the couple\u2019s collection of modern and contemporary art.<\/p>\n

The statement from the Commission for Looted Art<\/a> in Europe said the Nazis took Stern\u2019s business, its building, the family\u2019s home, its possessions, and most of its assets, pushing him and his loved ones into exile. The Matisse was sold to the Stedelijk Museum as part of the family\u2019s last efforts to flee Europe in 1941.<\/p>\n

Odalisque\u00a0<\/em>had been in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum since then, under the ownership of the Municipality of the City of Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

The museum acknowledged in its statement that Stern and his family were subjected to persecution because of their Jewish heritage, and that they were \u201cgradually stripped of their possessions and means of livelihood.\u201d The family, formerly based in Berlin, emigrated to the Netherlands between 1936 and 1937.<\/p>\n

As the funds from the sale of\u00a0Odalisque\u00a0<\/em>were needed for the Stern family\u2019s attempts to flee, the Restitutions Committee ruled \u201cthis was an involuntary loss of possession due to circumstances directly related to the Nazi regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albert Stern and his wife were eventually deported to different concentration camps. Albert died in January 1945 at Laufen. Marie survived and emigrated to the United Kingdom after World War II.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe return of the Matisse is a moving and overwhelming moment for us all,\u201d the Stern heirs said in a statement, calling the decision \u201csymbolic justice<\/a>\u201d for Albert. \u201cOur grandparents loved art and music and theatre, it was the centre of their lives. In the few years we had with our grandmother after the war, she transmitted that love to us, and it has enriched our lives ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam director Rein Wolfs said in a press statement that there had been questions about the provenance of the Matisse painting since it had published research about works from its collection around the war period in 2013.\u00a0He called the restitution a \u201cstep forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Stedelijk Museum\u00a0in Amsterdam will return a\u00a0Henri Matisse\u00a0painting to the heirs of a Jewish textile manufacturer who sold the piece while fleeing Nazi Germany. The institution\u00a0announced on June 25\u00a0that the Dutch Restitutions Committee had published its binding advice on the restitution of Matisse\u2019\u00a0Odalisque\u00a0(1920\/21) to the legal successors of Albert Stern. 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