Always wondered about this art stuff for it is the most corrupt business
in the world - the IRS once got after the psuedo religious self ordained
divine prophetess Jean Dixon for taking a big chunk off a work of art
she said was worth 50 times more than it was worth, and made her pay up
- for this was first move to down her divine self ordained status.
She also slept in the bed of Empress Eugenie - now wonder how she got
that bed? This woman who marked the Kennedy's for murder over and
over.......always wonderred though about this art stuff and what a good
tax dodge it was.
But the loot the Nazis allegedly had? George Patton returned the most
priceless object to the Hungarian Musem - the Spear of Longinus - the
spear once held by Phineas in the Bible to Charlemagne, to Adolph Hitler
- who realized the power and the glory of this spear for it symbolized
the future of the world.......
So Henry Kissinger's master, Nelson Rockefeller, had a collection of art
some of which was pornography and held in secret - one wonders where
this art originated? After JFK was murdered Paul Mellon put out his
Hogarth display (illuminati stuff - Hells Fire Club) and Linda Johnson
bought a collection - the collection I had in part was stolen by a man
named Danny Zacks - of the Max and Irma family, and very wealthy people
with a streak of larceny and drug connections.....nice people. He
resides in a prison now, I understand.
After all these years a piece of art work pops up nd then or an object
which was part of WWII booty alleged to have been stolen by Nazis.....it
was reported Madeline Albright had a lot of stolen stuff - the famly
took it with them when they fled to Serbia - and Madeline returned the
favor recently by bombing the homes of people who saved her worthless
life.
So here is a story and one must wonder......these people are one big
happy family......the CFR Lazaras family bought a lot of crap for the
Art Museum here - a metal statue that looks like something a dog left
and stainless stell objects - one painting in particular I remember,
just plan orange - a painting in an art gallary, someone just painted it
light orange and called it art? See the racketeering?
So the Feds got Jean Dixon and now we see this Loeb having this painting
and the Israelie museum having a stolen painting and I see Rockefeller
and Albright with objects stolen during the war and wonder.
Was there insurance on this stuff? Did the Nazis get that stuff or did
some of the survivors do a little looting on their own, as they alone
escaped to tell the truth leaving the 6 million along with 50 milion
othr people, to be slaughtered?
Saba
THE REPORTER
August 2, 1999
Space Cell
Israel Museum drags its feet over its looted Pissarro
DAVID B.GREEN
The attorney for the heir to a German-Jewish art collector killed by the
Nazis has put in a claim with the Israel Museum for what he says is a
looted Pissarro hanging in Jerusalem. The museum's former longtime
director says he believes the painting, the "best Pissarro we have,"
should be returned. But the museum is in no hurry to restore the work to
the 85-year-old woman who appears to be its rightful owner.
The painting, "Boulevard Montmartre: Spring," was one of a series of 14
the artist did of the scene in 1897, and belonged to Max Silberberg, the
same industrialist whose Van Gogh drawing "L'Olivette," worth an
estimated $5 million, has been hanging in the National Gallery of Berlin
and which the Foundation for Prussian Cultural Heritage has now
announced it will be returning to Silberberg's surviving heir. Both
works were sold off in a forced "Jew sale" in Berlin in 1935.
At the time of the German decision, in early June, extensive publicity
was given to the fact that lawyers for German-born British resident
Gerta Silberberg were searching for the Pissarro.
It was even reproduced in the Times of London. Yet Israel Museum
director James Snyder told The Report that he only heard at the end of
June that the museum's Pissarro, received as a gift from the estate of
John L. and Frances Loeb in 1997, might be the same one that belonged to
Silberberg. The painting hangs in the museum's Impressionist art
gallery.
Snyder was unwilling to say whether the museum would return the work to
Gerta Silberberg even if it became convinced that it was indeed taken
illegally from her father-in-law. "I don't want to speculate," said
Snyder, who added: "We need to understand the circumstances of the sale
and then review the provenance" -- the record of ownership of a work of
art. "We will address it fully."
Snyder explained further that, because the painting was "a bona fide
gift of an estate, we will want to engage the donors, who bought it in
good faith in 1960." (The Loebs purchased the painting from the New York
dealer Knoedler.) The museum, however, has not yet been in touch with
the executors of the Loeb estate.
The Loebs, a prominent Jewish New York investment-banking family, had an
extensive art collection, most of which, by the terms of their will, was
sold in a public auction in 1996 after their deaths -- with the
proceeds, $100 million, going to a family charitable foundation. The
Pissarro, however, had been promised by the Loebs to the Israel Museum
in 1985, in honor of the museum's 20th anniversary, and in light of the
family's close relationship to museum founder and then-Jerusalem mayor
Teddy Kollek.
Contacted by The Report, John L. Loeb, Jr., son of the collectors, would
not comment for the record about the case. But former Israel Museum
director Martin Weyl, who headed the institution when the painting was
bequeathed, said that he believes "very strongly" that stolen art should
be returned. "And if an arrangement can be made," by which Gerta
Silberberg's ownership could be recognized but the painting remain
hanging in Jerusalem, "that would be nicest. It's the best Pissarro we
have."
Dr. Jost von Trott, the Berlin lawyer representing Silberberg in
tracking down her father-in-law's collection of 143 paintings and
sculptures (she has already said that she has "no wish to receive the
pictures myself"), told
The Report he could not comment on the case, but he has submitted a
claim on behalf of his client with the museum. And the European
Commission on Looted Art, which is working with Von Trott, has also
"written to James Snyder," said commission co-chair Anne Webber, who
added that "we hope the museum will act quickly and speedily to
acknowledge the ownership." For his part, Snyder told The Report that
dealing with 85-year-old Silberberg's claim "will take some time."
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