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...peak of its popularity in the 1920s, the Wertheim department store on Leipziger Platz in central Berlin boasted of being the biggest in Europe, the place shoppers could find "everything under one roof," from French goat cheese to Wagner opera scores. One contemporary writer even hailed the emporium, with its statues and marble columns, as the Berlin Louvre. Like so much else in Berlin, Wertheim fell victim first to the Nazis and then to the postwar communist rulers of East Germany. Most of the Jewish Wertheim family members fled Germany or were killed at Auschwitz, and the property was nationalized...
...documents obtained by TIME show that, even as courts were trying to sort out the ownership issues, German authorities made several deals with Karstadt or firms now owned by it, handing over at least €200 million in Wertheim property and cash. Among the transactions: Berlin authorities gave a triangle of land in central Berlin next to Potsdamer Platz to the retailer for free, on the understanding that it would build a corporate headquarters on it. The company promptly sold the land for about €150 million. The federal government allowed Karstadt to keep for almost a decade about...
German companies are watching nervously as a federal judge in New Jersey prepares to rule on a case that could reopen a floodgate of Holocaust - related litigation. The suit was filed by the children of Günther and Fritz Wertheim, who ran a thriving Jewish chain store before fleeing Nazi Germany. Believing their assets worthless, they sold to a German businessman in 1951 for $18,400. In doing so, they lost prized Berlin real estate, according to the $500 million suit against KarstadtQuelle, Germany's biggest retailer, which now owns the property. The case threatens a 1999 accord designed...
Works from five museums worldwide are combined with one portrait in the Fogg’s Wertheim collection to shed some light on an aspect of Toulouse Lautrec’s repertoire that until recently has been overlooked. Previously, his more conventional, intimate portraits were considered “student works, illustrations of popular song, or demonstrations of social issues in nineteenth-century Paris,” Sarah Kianovsky, assistant curator of Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Fogg, writes in the show’s essay. By contrast, this exhibition seeks to allow the viewer to see Toulouse...
...on—and perhaps even Valadon’s more personal desires: rice powder was worn by courtesans in an attempt to imitate the pale faces of the women of the Parisian aristocracy. “The Hangover” (from the Fogg’s own Wertheim Collection) features a brooding Valadon leaning over a table adorned with a glass of wine; she seems undisturbed by—or even unaware of—the presence of an outside viewer...