German Nazi loot panel urges return of Schiele work at Museum Ludwig to Jewish dentist's heirs
Egon Schiele, Crouching Female Nude (Kauernder weiblicher Akt, 1917) Courtesy of Museum Ludwig The German government’s advisory panel on Nazi-looted art has called on the city of Cologne to return a watercolour by Egon Schiele to the heirs of Heinrich Rieger, a Jewish Viennese dentist and art collector who was murdered at Theresienstadt concentration camp. The 1917 work in watercolour and pencil, titled Crouching Female Nude, (Kauernder weiblicher Akt in German) was donated to the city of Cologne in 1966. It is not known when it disappeared from Rieger’s collection. ...
Source: theartnewspaper.com