How a Canajoharie Museum Unknowingly Acquired a Painting Stolen by Nazis
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, ...
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