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\n\tThe Pinakotheken in Munich will return a painting by the German painter Lesser Ury that was auctioned under duress during the Nazi regime in Bavaria. First reported by\u00a0Monopol<\/em>, the news signals a renewed push for restitution within Bavaria\u2019s museum sector, long scrutinized for its sluggish handling of Nazi-looted art.<\/p>\n \n\tUry, a German-Jewish Impressionist who died in 1931, was known for his evocative depictions of Berlin and Bavaria\u2014nocturnal caf\u00e9s, rain-drenched streets, and fleeting domestic scenes.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe Pinakothek museums have returned his painting\u00a0Interior with Children (The Siblings)<\/em>, which\u00a0was originally ownedby the Berlin banker\u00a0Curt Goldschmidt.<\/p>\n \n\tUndone by the economic policies of the National Socialists\u2014the Nazi Party\u2014the family bank collapsed, forcing the Goldschmidts to auction their assets, including the Ury painting. It\u00a0is believed\u00a0to have sold for around 800 Reichsmarks (roughly $4,000 today); by comparison, Ury\u2019s Berlin Impressionist scenes have fetched between $40,000 and $100,000 at auction in more recent years.<\/p>\n \n\tAccording to the museum, Goldschmidt fled to Paris in 1937, where he lived in hiding throughout the German\u00a0occupation,\u00a0until\u00a0his death\u00a0in 1947.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cCurt Goldschmidt\u2019s fate is representative of that of many Jewish collectors and patrons. Persecution by the National Socialists robbed him of his fortune and his art collection; he could only save his life by fleeing,\u201d Bavaria\u2019s minister of art Markus Blume said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIt remains unclear who acquired the painting at auction in the 1930s, though its provenance records show that it resurfaced at a Cologne auction house in 1940, accompanied by a note indicating it came from \u201cnon-Aryan ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe Bavarian State Painting Collections acquired the painting in 1972. Decades later, the institution\u2019s director,\u00a0Anton Biebl, described it in a statement as a significant example of Ury\u2019s work, and as representative of \u201cthe history of Jewish collectors and patrons in early modern Berlin.\u201d Under Biebl, the institution has notably intensified its scrutiny of the provenance of works in its collection, with an eye toward restitution.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe return acknowledges the painting\u2019s dual Jewish provenance \u2013 from its creator to its collectors and its loss as a result of Nazi persecution,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/pinakothek-munich-nazi-looted-painting-restitution-1234779536\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-1307392765.jpg?w=1024″] The Pinakotheken in Munich will return a painting by the German painter Lesser Ury that was auctioned under duress during the Nazi regime in Bavaria. First reported by\u00a0Monopol, the news signals a renewed push for restitution within Bavaria\u2019s museum sector, long scrutinized for its sluggish handling of Nazi-looted art. Ury, a German-Jewish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1857466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1857466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1857466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1857466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1857466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}