Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Staatsgalerie im Schloss Johannisburg Aschaffenburg). CC BY-SA 4.0.
July 21, 2017, by Catherine Hickley – Excerpt
“An heir of a prominent German banking family recovered a Renaissance-era painting on Friday that was looted by the Nazis and then bought by the Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, who amassed a collection of more than 1,000 paintings.”
“The work, “The Raising of Lazarus,” by an anonymous German artist, was salvaged by the Monuments Men at the end of World War II before entering the Bavarian State Paintings Collection in 1961, where it remained until now. The heirs didn’t know it was there but a company that helps families recover looted art noticed several years ago that it was on a list of artworks lost during the war.”
“The heirs were represented by James Palmer of Mondex Corporation in negotiations to
recover the painting.”
“The State Paintings Collection included the painting and its ownership history in a 2004 publication listing artworks acquired by Goering that were in Bavaria’s possession. It was later identified by Mondex, which traced the Bleichröder heirs and began helping them to recover their lost art in 2010.”
This is an excerpt from this New York Times article. Full article through this link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/arts/design/painting-from-goerings-collection-is-returned-to-bankers-heirs.html?searchResultPosition=23
