separate life-size portraits of Adam and Eve by German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder, taken by the Nazis from a Jewish Dutch art dealer. The case stems from a 2007 lawsuit filed ...

The Dutch art collector died in 1940 while fleeing the Nazis. And the paintings, done by Lucas Cranach the Elder, fell into German hands. During WWII “Adam” and “Eve” hung side-by-side on ...

Museum founder Norton Simon bought “Adam” and “Eve” in 1971 after they’d ... sale after Jacques Goudstikker, a noted Dutch-Jewish art dealer, fled for his life with his family as the ...

The Jewish collector and dealer Jacques Goudstikker buys the pair of paintings Adam and Eve (around 1530 ... of it was returned by the Allies to the Dutch authorities for restitution in 1946 ...

Adam and Eve, attributed to the Dutch 16th-century artist Cornelis van Haarlem. courtesy Kaye Spiegler A painting looted by the Nazis during World War II from the collection of Jacques ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s pair of panel paintings, “Adam” and “Eve” (circa 1530) at the Norton Simon Museum, beautifully restored, go on view Tuesday at the Getty in a special three ...

The Dutch collector and art dealer’s holdings were later returned ... The Norton Simon’s eponymous founder purchased Adam and Eve from Stroganoff-Scherbatoff in 1971.

Many of the works, however, are still missing. Art historians think the newly returned artwork, titled Adam and Eve, was painted by Dutch artist Cornelis van Haarlem in the 16th century.