The Foxes: a sale abroad, a persecution claim at home
The decisive question was not simply where the painting had been sold.
Jewish banker Kurt Grawi was imprisoned at Sachsenhausen in 1938 and fled Germany in 1939. His Franz Marc painting reached New York and was sold there in 1940, after the family had escaped.
Düsseldorf received the work as a gift in 1962. Its later provenance inquiry examined whether the foreign sale still resulted from Nazi persecution. The location of the transaction did not settle that question.
The advisory commission recommended restitution in March 2021. Düsseldorf’s council agreed in April, and the painting was handed to the heirs on 11 January 2022. The case concerns persecution-related loss, not a documented physical seizure of this canvas by Nazi officers.
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