Museum Wiesbaden Restitutes Painting by Dutch Baroque Painter Pieter de Grebber

WIESBADEN.- On Tuesday, the 10th August 2010, the Museum Wiesbaden restituted the painting attributed to Dutch Baroque painter Pieter de Grebber (1600-1653) titled “Double Portrait of a young couple” to the heirs of Jacob and Rosa Oppenheimer. The Museum Wiesbaden follows this restitution to the principles of the Washington Declaration of 3 December 1998 and to the declaration of the Federal Government, state and community associations to locate and return of Nazi confiscated art, especially from Jewish property, in December 1999. The art and antiques dealer James Oppenheimer, was the owner of an art trading company. Jacob Oppenheimer (1879-1941) and his wife Rosa Oppenheimer (1877-1943), due to their Jewish origins, had to escape an impending arrest, leaving Berlin in late March 1933 and emigrated to France. Jacob Oppenheimer was interned after the invasion of the German army in France. He died in 1941. Rosa Oppenheim

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