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Now that
Roses Under the Trees (1905), the only painting by Gustav Klimt in a French national museum, is due to be restituted from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to the heirs of Viennese Jews whom the Nazis robbed, eyes are on another Klimt landscape painting believed to be in France:
Apple Tree II (1916), returned to the wrong family 20 years ago after it was confused for
Roses Under the Trees, and now held by billionaire Bernard Arnault.
Apple Tree II was owned by Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt, the daughter of Erich and Serena Lederer, from a family of Jewish distillers, before the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. Many of the Lederers’ paintings were seized and major works by Klimt were destroyed in 1945, including another possible arboreal landscape
WORCESTER Beginning around the early years of the 20th century and continuing up until around 1938, Dr. Richard Neumann built a notable collection of more than 200 paintings and sculptures that included Italian Renaissance art and Old Masters. You could tell he had a really refined taste, said Claire Whitner, the Worcester Art Museum s Curatorial Director and James A. Welu Director of European Art.
However, When you re talking about works of art from a person s collection, the through line is the person, Whitner said.
Richard Neumann (1879-1959) was a remarkable person and the joys and sorrows of the through line of his life are captured in the Worcester Art Museum s latest exhibition, What the Nazis Stole from Richard Neumann (and the search to get it back), opening April 10 and running until Jan. 16, 2022. (Currently, admission to WAM galleries and shop is by timed entry and advance ticket only. Visit worcesterart.org)