A New York judge has ruled that the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) must surrender a disputed Egon Schiele drawing, looted by the Nazis from Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum. The decision marks a pivotal moment in a protracted legal battle between the...
Update: A rare bronze death mask of the Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele has sold at Sloane Street Auctions in London on 23 October. The bidding started at £1,000 and quickly escalated to £10,000 within just two minutes. After five minutes of intense...
In a landmark decision, the ownership of an Egon Schiele drawing, "Portrait of the Artist's Wife, 1917," has finally been resolved by a judge in Rochester, New York. This decision marks the end of a protracted dispute that has spanned decades, involving competing...
In a significant development, two artworks by Egon Schiele restituted to the heirs of Austrian Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum, are slated for auction after being returned on Friday. Grünbaum, who perished in the Holocaust, allegedly had his art collection...
Art dealers speculating in the 'highly controlled' London secondary art market are wondering how on earth an original drawing by the renowned Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele ended up in the hands of Chiswick Auctions. Update: The drawing sold for £81,250 including...
Seven significant artworks by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele have been restituted to the family of the Jewish art collector Fritz Grünbaum. The Nazis forced Grünbaum to sell his collection at a knockdown price while he was locked in a concentration camp during World...
When I visited art college studios as a jealous English student in the 1980s, the cool, edgy artists had pictures of skinny, edgy women in tea shirts, naked. Their women were angular, anorexic and stiff. I wondered where their inspiration had come from. I learned...
Two works on paper by the Secessionist artist Egon Schiele, stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis in the late 1930s, have been ordered to be restituted to the heirs of an Austrian Holocaust victim. The works of art, 'Woman Hiding Her Face' and 'Woman in a Black...
On November 5th, Christie's is auctioning a 1910 Schiele watercolor 'Town on the Blue River'. The auction house is doing this in conjunction with a restitution agreement that views the work as looted art, and will provide compensation to Grünbaum's heirs....