Otto Nathan Deutsch

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Otto Nathan Deutsch (died 1943) was a Jewish art collector and refugee from Nazis.

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Early life

Otto Nathan Deutsch was a German Jewish art collector. He was married to Bertha Deutsch.

Nazi persecution

Facing persecution by the Nazis because of their Jewish heritage, Otto Nathan and Bertha Deutsch fled Frankfurt in 1939 to Amsterdam. The inventory of their possessions was used by the Nazis to select the objects they wanted. [1] The couple died during the war, [2] Otto Nathan in 1943. [3]

Restitution claims for artworks

In 1978, the Deutsch family learned that a painting that had been thought destroyed had survived the war. [4] The painting “Blumengarten (Utenwarf)” by Emil Nolde surfaced in Switzerland in 1967 at the Roman Norbert Ketterer auction house [5] where it was acquired by the Swedish museum, Moderna Museet, The family requested that the Stockholm museum return the painting, setting off a long court battle. [6] [2]

In 2006 the heirs of Otto Nathan Deutsch and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden reached a settlement concerning the 1917 Emil Nolde painting Blumengarten (Utenwarf) after a dispute lasting seven years. [2] Another Nolde painting, Mohn und Rosen, which had ended up in a private collection, was restituted to the Deutsch heirs in 2021. It had passed through the Galerie Kornfeld in Bern in 2006. [7]

The German Lost Art Foundation Database lists 18 works missing from the Deutsch collection, included art by Emil Nolde, Max Liebermann, August Humbert, Richard Kaiser and Charles Camoin. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Die Liste des Herrn Deutsch - Spiegel". Spiegel.
  2. 1 2 3 "Blumengarten – Deutsch Heirs and Moderna Museet Stockholm — Centre du droit de l'art". plone.unige.ch. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  3. ↑ "Nazi Victim's Heirs Lose Patience With Sweden Over Looted Nolde". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  4. ↑ "Legal issues muddy fights over Nazi-looted art". Deseret News. 2009-01-18. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  5. ↑ Artdaily. "Moderna Museet and the Heirs of Otto Nathan Deutsch Reach Settlement on Disputed Painting". artdaily.cc. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  6. ↑ Hickley, Catherine. "Nazi Victim's Heirs Urge Sweden to Settle 7-Year Art Dispute". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  7. ↑ "Mohn und Rosen | Lost Art-Datenbank". www.lostart.de. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  8. ↑ "Suche | Lost Art-Datenbank". www.lostart.de. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
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