ner Tageblatt before being seized by the Nazis in the early 1930s.
A spokesperson from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art did not provide a specific time frame for the tapestries’ return, but says the institution is finalizing the details of the arrangement now.
“Restitution is an ethical and professional obligation,” Tania Coen-Uzielli, director of the museum, said in a statement to Artnet News. “In recent years, the study of the provenance of works of art has become a major concern of museums around the world. Museums allocate major resources to provenance research, which is significant for providing historical justice.”
Feb 24, 2021 Winter by Gari Melchers courtesy of Gari Melchers Home and Studio
In 1900, Rudolph Mosse purchased the painting, Winter by Gari Melchers at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. Mosse was a prominent publisher and philanthropist in Germany building an empire that made his family one of the wealthiest in Berlin.
When Rudolph died in 1920, his sole heir was his daughter Felicia Lachmann-Mosse and her husband Hans Lachmann-Mosse became the publisher of the company s flagship newspaper, the
Berliner Tageblatt. The newspaper was an outspoken critic of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler, which made the Lachmann-Mosse family a symbol of the Jewish press. In 1933, three months after Hitler s rise to power, Hans-Lachmann Mosse and many of the company s leading Jewish staff members were forced to flee the country. The Nazi regime took control of the family property, including the Rudolph Mosse Company, the