Jewish-owned art - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 19 Feb 2018 04:10:42 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Jewish-owned art - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Paintings returned to Nazi refugees' descendants https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/02/19/paintings-nazi-refugees-jewish/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 06:55:35 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=104112 France has returned three 16th-century oil paintings to the descendants of a German-Jewish couple. The couple sold the artwork to flee the Nazis. On Monday, France's culture minister, Francoise Nyssen, handed the paintings over to Henrietta Schubert and Chris Bromberg, who are descendants of Herta and Henry Bromberg. The handover was made during an official Read more

Paintings returned to Nazi refugees' descendants... Read more]]> France has returned three 16th-century oil paintings to the descendants of a German-Jewish couple.

The couple sold the artwork to flee the Nazis.

On Monday, France's culture minister, Francoise Nyssen, handed the paintings over to Henrietta Schubert and Chris Bromberg, who are descendants of Herta and Henry Bromberg.

The handover was made during an official ceremony at The Louvre Museum in Paris. Read more

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