Stolen Nazi art sold for record price
Wassily Kandinsky’s painting “Murnau with Church II” has been sold for the record sum of SEK 468 million at Sotheby’s in London, writes The Guardian. Before World War II, the painting hung in the dining room of the art-interested couple Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann and Siegbert Stern in Potsdam, Berlin.
The couple had founded a textile company and used much of their fortune to buy art which was then stolen by the Nazis in the 1930s. Siegbert Stern died in 1935 while Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann was forced to flee and was later murdered in Auschwitz.
The couple’s art collection included more than 100 prized works of art by masters such as Renoir, Munch and Kandinsky. Many of them have not been located and the couple’s survivors now hope to use some of the profits from the now-sold painting to find more.
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