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The German Center for Cultural Property Losses handed over a crucifix to the lawyer representing the heirs of the German-Jewish entrepreneur Ottmar Strauss (1878-1941).

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German Center Returns Crucifix to Heirs of Jewish Collector Ottmar Strauss
https://www.artdependence.com/articles/german-center-returns-crucifix-to-heirs-of-jewish-collector-ottmar-strauss/

ArtDependence | German Center Returns Crucifix to Heirs of Jewish Collector Ottmar Strauss

The German Center for Cultural Property Losses handed over a crucifix to the lawyer representing the heirs of the German-Jewish entrepreneur Ottmar Strauss (1878-1941).

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JEWISH ART COLLECTIONS - WW11
Saved from Nazi Looting.
A detail of the tapestry Wild Men and Moors, from about 1440 Charles Potter Kling Fund. Photograph by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.The 15th-century tapestry Wild Men and Moors was recently featured in a series of tweets by Victoria Reed, the provenance curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

• The Nazi leader Hermann Goering usually got the art he wanted, especially when it belonged to a Jewish collector. But one Germany’s oldest and finest medieval tapestries eluded the Nazi leader’s grasp. The German-Jewish industrialist Ottmar Strauss defied the Nazis in a quiet act of resistance by getting a number of items in his art collection out of Germany. Some of the looted items have been returned to his Jewish heirs.