'The heirs of a Jewish couple that fled Nazi Germany filed a lawsuit on Friday

[elleng]

against the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and are demanding restitution for a Pablo Picasso painting they claim their ancestor once owned that is now on display at the museum.

German Jewish businessman Karl Adler was chairman of the board of directors at Adler & Oppenheimer A.G., one of Europe’s leading leather manufacturers, and had led a “prosperous life” in Germany before World War II, according to the family’s Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit. They claim that Adler and his wife Rosi purchased Picasso’s 1904 oil on canvas painting called Woman Ironing (La repasseuse) in 1916 from Heinrich Thannhauser, a Jewish gallery owner in Munich.'>>>

https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/01/24/family-of-jewish-couple-who-owned-picasso-painting-before-fleeing-nazi-germany-sue-guggenheim-museum/?

[Joinfortmill]

1. Such a horrendous time when so many people acted with inhumanity... I hope a solution is found.

[mopinko]

2. sounds like a sketchy claim.

family sold the painting on the way out of the country. they’re saying it was under duress, but…