aralle Robinson

In 1941, Nazi occupied 6 paintings of Jewish businessman was forced to sell this Tuesday to return to his grandson. Held an ambition ceremony in Paris the French Ministry of culture, from Boston's 84 year old Thomas Selldorff said he was "delighted" to get the eighteenth Century Germany and Italy paintings, these works are his childhood seen in his grandfather's home in Vienna. These works were sold to Richard Neumann in exchange for Paris from Spain to Cuba travel. "This is a very meaningful day to me, I have 3 kids. These paintings will stay in the family, in different family. "Selldorff said. Seventh paintings by Holland artist Pieter-Jansz van Asch, "stop (The Stop, 1603-1678)" is the Nazis confiscated and from Prague banker Josef Wiener, this will also return. An attorney representing Wiener wife, the son of a friend's acceptance of this piece of work, Wiener were killed in the holocaust. Selldorff's grandfather owns more than 200 works before the war. But in 1938 he was forced to flee from Austria, these works are  Nazis had after saling in Paris. The Nazis had planned to these works to Hitler plans to set up in the city of Linz in Austria museum. At the end of the war, these paintings were in the museum in Paris, including 3 sites in the Le Louvre museum.