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...mastermind behind Facebook.com would definitely win the ladies over with his wealth of personality. Seriously—one convo with this former Harvard geek, and visions of McMansions and manicures would tantalize the “ladies” of “The Bachelor.” 4. Nathan J. Dern ’07: the Beauties may not have appreciated him, but perhaps the the Bachelorettes will have a different view of his Ivy League education and predilection for self-referent Facebook groups. After his thrilling run on Beauty and the Geek, we vote to give this nerd...
...familiar to any fan of 17th-century Dutch masters. But if a recent claim by heirs to one of the most prominent World War II-era Dutch art dealers succeeds, Dou's painting will be taken from Leiden's De Lakenhal Museum and returned to the family of Nathan Katz. In all, Katz' four children are claiming 225 paintings and two tapestries from museums and institutions throughout the Netherlands...
...Katz claim came as a surprise. "People thought it was over because of the settlement after the war," says Vogelaar, referring to the 28 paintings returned to the Katz family in the 1940s. They include Rembrandt's Portrait of a Man, which is thought to have been bartered by Nathan in exchange for visas for his extended family and his mother's release from the Dutch concentration camp, Westerbork...
...will take at least a year for the Committee to go through the Katz claim. By all accounts, the Katz case is more complex than most restitution claims. Nathan and his brother Benjamin were not just private owners, but dealers with a thriving art gallery in their hometown of Dieren in the east of the country. They continued to buy and sell art throughout the war, even if from Basel, Switzerland, where Nathan moved his family in 1942. Many of their dealings were with Nazi art procurer Alois Miedl, who bought art for Hermann Goering and others. "Everyone says Nathan...
...Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...