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Emil Nolde's “Palms” was privately owned for over 60 years – however, the heirs of the Jewish collector Dr. Ismar Littmann lost it thro

“Emil Nolde‘s ‘Buchsbaumgarten‘ is one of the most significant works offered on the German auction market in the last decades“

Did the Nazis force an art sale? The question lingers 88 years later. Joachim Anthoniesz Wtewael’s “Actaeon Watching Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing.” The museum has held that Curt Glaser’s sale of the painting was not forced by Nazi persecution. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston via The New York Times. by Catherine Hickley (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- The Nazi authorities removed Curt Glaser from his post as director of the Berlin State Art Library in April 1933 because he was Jewish. He was also evicted from his home and, the following month, sold most of his art collection at two auctions.