Nazis stole Jewish performer’s artworks. They ended up in US museums
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 21, 2024
New York prosecutors this week returned two modernist drawings Nazis seized over 80 years ago to relatives of a Jewish cabaret performer killed at Dachau.
Fritz Grünbaum, a Viennese singer and comedian who was outspoken against Hitler in his act, is believed to have owned at least 450 works of art before the Nazis annexed Austria. His relatives have retrieved about a dozen.
In some cases when Nazis arrested Jews and sent them to concentration camps, the officers carted off the family's belongings, including priceless works of . . .
