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...SUNDAY Women's hockey will make its debut. And the man to watch will be Austrian Alpine skier Hermann ("Monster") Maier, who has had eight monstrous wins this season...
...article on the Manhattan district attorney's seizure of two paintings whose ownership is disputed by descendants of Viennese Jewish families [ART, Jan. 19], Robert Hughes described the "impeccable conduct" of the present Austrian government in dealing with the restoration of art stolen by the Nazis. If this were true, that government would applaud and support the seizure, given Austria's rather wretched history of restitution over the past decades. Politically inspired or not, the seizure does have a semblance of morality, an aspect of this affair that Hughes dismisses. This action might, at the very least, force all museums...
...past couple of weeks the international museum world has been getting an increasing attack of the jitters over two works by the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Portrait of Wally, 1912, and Dead City III, 1911, were part of a large fall show of Schiele's drawings and paintings at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, all on loan from the government-financed Leopold Foundation in Vienna. The two paintings have long been claimed by descendants of Viennese Jewish families from whom the Nazis stole them in the 1930s. Right at the end of the show--in fact...
This was greeted with outrage in Austria and dismay in the U.S. Austrian Culture Minister Elizabeth Gehrer called Morgenthau's intervention a "heavy blow to the international exchange of art" that "shakes the foundations of trust." It seemed particularly insulting that Morgenthau's office had behaved as though the present Austrian government, whose conduct in the restitution of art stolen by Nazis after the Anschluss has been impeccable, would stoop to the sort of cover-up deployed by Swiss bankers over their stocks of stolen Jewish gold...
...semiretired arts reporter for the New York Times. Wally had belonged to Bondi's aunt, a Viennese art dealer named Lea Bondi Jaray. Shortly before she fled to London in 1938, it was seized from her by a Nazi art dealer; eventually it passed through the hands of the Austrian Gallery and ended up in the collection of Dr. Rudolf Leopold, an ophthalmologist and self-styled art historian and restorer whose Schiele collection is institutionalized today as the Leopold Foundation. Dead City was owned by a relative of Reif's, a Viennese writer-comedian named Fritz Grunbaum. Nazis confiscated...