Nazi-Stolen Art Returned to Holocaust Victim’s Heirs in New York Battle
New York City, NY – New York prosecutors have successfully returned two pieces of stolen art to the heirs of a Jewish Holocaust victim, Fritz Grünbaum. The pieces, a portrait and a painting of a girl, were part of a larger collection of 80 watercolor and pencil works by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele. They were collected by Grünbaum in Vienna in the early 1900s. The artworks were surrendered by museums in Pittsburgh and Ohio, with …