Another German Expressionist was in the news today as The New York Times reveals the Neue Galerie has made a settlement on Karl Schmidt-Rotluff’s nude which has been in the museum’s collection but was still subject to a lingering dispute:
The Neue Galerie of New York has reached a restitution settlement for “Nude,” a 1914 painting by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, with the heirs of a Jewish shoe manufacturer and art collector whose artworks were taken when his wife and son were forced to flee Germany by the Nazis in the 1930s, the museum announced Tuesday.
Neue Galerie Returns Painting Seized by Nazis and Then Rebuys It in Settlement (The New York Times)
