The Supreme Court ruled for the Jewish family seeking to recover a Pissarro painting that was looted by a Nazi official in 1939.
For 25 years, a painting by the Impressionist master Camille Pissarro has hung on a museum wall in Spain.“It’s a happy morning,” said David Cassirer upon hearing of the ruling. He carried on the family’s lawsuit along with the Jewish Federation of San Diego.in Los Angeles that the painting should remain with the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection at a state-owned museum in Madrid.
to Baron Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza, a Swiss art collector and the heir to a steel empire. In But all the while, Claude Cassirer had been searching for the lost painting that hung on the wall of his grandmother Lilly’s apartment in Berlin. She turned over the painting to a Nazi official in 1939 to obtain a visa out of Germany.
After being rebuffed by the Spanish government, he filed suit in 2005 in a federal court in Los Angeles seeking to recover the painting, valued at $30 million.
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