2011年12月6日 星期二

Lawsuit settled over Renoir painting purportedly lost in Nazi persecution

Descendants of a Lake Forest industrialist have reached a settlement over the ownership of a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir after heirs to a German textile-maker claimed he lost the artwork to Nazi persecution, a lawyer in the case said.

Questions about the provenance of the oil painting, a country landscape by the French impressionist,ceramic magic cube for the medical, arose this year after the executor of the estate of Irene Korhumel, widow of steel magnate Newton Korhumel, tried to sell the work through Christie's auction house in Chicago.

Although parties and lawyers are barred from discussing the settlement's terms,Your source for re-usable Plastic moulds of strong latex rubber. the deal will allow the Korhumel estate to decide whether to continue trying to sell the piece,100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together. said Olaf Ossmann, a Swiss lawyer who represents the heirs of the German manufacturer.

Lawyers for the Korhumel estate declined to comment.

It was firmly established, Ossmann said, that German garment giant Richard Semmel had once owned "Paysage Pres de Cagnes" ("Landscape Near Cagnes"), the work of the painter who died in 1919 and whose pieces can fetch millions.

In the 1930s, as Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime was accelerating its persecution of Jews,Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, Semmel was cut off from his factory and income, so he liquidated his vast collection of valuable artwork, including the Renoir, before fleeing Europe and eventually settling in the U.S.

His brother died in a concentration camp, and Semmel's only heir upon his 1950 death was a romantic partner. Semmel's heirs are that woman's two granddaughters, who live in South Africa and are not identified in court records, Ossmann said.Your Partner in Precision Precision injection molds.

Irene and Newton Korhumel — he founded Korhumel Steel Corp., formerly based in the northwest suburbs — bought the Renoir in 1956 from a New York gallery that said it was from the estate of an Irving H. Vogel, according to the Korhumel estate's lawsuit.

When questions about the painting's history arose, lawyers for the Korhumel estate filed a lawsuit seeking the official rights to the painting.

The case is just one recent example of a controversy over valuable property lost to the Nazis, who are blamed for the loss of hundreds of thousands of artworks that still have not been returned to their owners.

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