The commission said that given the circumstances, however, it had to be assumed that Fischer, who immigrated to the United States, lost possession of the painting due to Nazi persecution. It ordered the artwork returned to his heirs.
The heirs, who weren’t identified, have said they plan on donating the painting to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the commission said.
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Erich Heckel, Siblings (1913) © VG Bildkunst
Germany’s advisory commission on Nazi-looted art has determined that a painting by the Expressionist artist Erich Heckel in the Karlsruhe Kunsthalle should be returned to the heirs of Max Fischer, a Jewish journalist who left his possessions behind in Berlin when he fled to the US to escape persecution.
The 1913 painting,
Siblings, portrays Heckel’s wife, a dancer known as Siddi, with her younger brother. Max Fischer inherited it from his mother Rosy Fischer, who together with his father Ludwig Fischer assembled one of the most important private collections of Expressionist art in pre-war Germany.