ArtInfo is reporting that the family of Walter Westfeld is suing Germany over stolen and looted art during World War II. Westfeld was a Jewish art dealer in Germany and was killed in Auschwitz. Westfeld's family is now suing Germany for damages. The collection stolen by the Nazis is said to have contained works by Rubens, Hals, Van Dyck and many more. The collection is said to have had 100's of items, many of them the whereabouts are unkonw.ArtInfo reports "The suit is unusual in that claimants generally sue for the restitution of specific artworks rather than damages. There are several hundred items and we don't know where they all are," Jeffrey Schoenblum, a lawyer representing the Westfield family, told Bloomberg. "It would be really difficult to locate all the works of art, which may be scattered around the world. We are suing the German government. It bears the legal and moral responsibility."
Monica Tatzkow, co-author of the restitution-case handbook "Nazi-Looted Art," has written a book about Westfeld's collection and will be published shortly.
To read the ArtInfo article, click HERE.
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This is a very corrageous claim overcomming the limitation of action rule as well as the jurisdiction of an American Court to handle a claim against a foreign country.
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