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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 ...
Still, the Dutch government reached a settlement with Stroganoff-Scherbatoff that allowed him to acquire the paintings in 1966. Stroganoff-Scherbatoff then sold “Adam” and “Eve” to Norton ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Dutch government acted with authority to convey the paintings after von Saher ... Art Foundation is the rightful owner of the Adam and Eve panels by Lucas Cranach the Elder,” says ...
The design represents Eve issuing from the rib of Adam. Mr. Barnard has been at work on the piece several years. The legend is current in art circles that at one time the elder Rockefeller was ...