Beratende Kommission NS-Raubgut empfiehlt der Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, das Gemälde "Portrait Alfred Kerr" von Lovis Corinth an die Erben nach Robert Graetz nicht zu restituieren - Berufung eine...

Press Release The Advisory Commission recommends to the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin not to restitute the Portrait of Alfred Kerr by Lovis Corinth to the heirs of Robert Graetz Appointment of a new member to the Advisory Commission 22 July 2021 1. The Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially from Jewish property, chaired by Prof. Hans-Jürgen Papier, decided unanimously on 12 July 2021 in the case of the heirs of Robert Graetz versus Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin to recommend that the painting Portrait of Alfred Kerr by Lovis Corinth not be restituted to the heirs of Robert Graetz. The painting was part of the extensive art collection of Robert Graetz. Graetz was a successful entrepreneur and partner in the company Glass & Graetz oHG in Berlin. Because of his Jewish ancestry, he and his family were persecuted individually and collectively. His children from his first marriage managed to escape abroad; the son of his second wife, Bluma Graetz, was taken to England on a Kindertransport. After the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Bluma Graetz was classified as an "enemy of the state" because of her nationality and extradited to Russia via Turkey, where she had to perform forced labor for six years. Robert Graetz was deported on 14 April 1942 on the 14th Transport to the Trawniki concentration camp near Lublin. A last message to his daughter has survived from the Warsaw Ghetto, dated 16...