Germany sets precedent in return of painting sold as owner fled Nazis – J.

The German city of Dusseldorf has agreed to return an Expressionist painting estimated to be worth $18 million to the heirs of its original Jewish owner, in a move that could set a precedent for German restitution claims.
Kurt Grawi, a Jewish businessman and art collector, fled Germany for Chile in 1939 after years of persecution and several weeks of internment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
According to lawyers for the family, when Grawi fled he was only permitted to take a suitcase and a handful of Reichsmarks. His painting “The Fox,” by the German Expressionism pioneer Franz Marc — the Nazis considered it “degenerate art” — had to be smuggled out of the country, probably with the help of friends.

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