By: Desmond Butler, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- The heirs of a Jewish art collector can proceed with a lawsuit against Hungary seeking the return of art seized during the Holocaust that is worth more than $100 million, a federal judge ruled. But, as Hungary requested, other heirs of Baron Mor Lipot Herzog with older lawsuits over the art, cannot proceed, the U.S. District Court judge in Washington decided Thursday. In the lawsuit that will go forward, David de Csepel, Herzog’s great grandson, and two other heirs sued Hungary and several state-owned museums seeking the return of works that included paintings by Renaissance artist El Greco and Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbaran. The dismissed suit was brought by De Csepel’s aunt, Martha Nierenberg and other heirs. Herzog died in 1934. His collection, which at its zenith may have grown to as many as 2,500 objects and numerous paintings from the Old Masters, including 10 by El Greco, was inherited by his three children af