THE FACE THAT LAUNCHED A THOUSAND LAWSUITS

Wally Neuzil was Egon Schiele’s favorite model and true love until the time of his marriage, to another woman, in 1915. Now Wally is the subject of an exhibition at Vienna’s Leopold Museum. The star of the show is Portrait of Wally, a painting looted by the Nazis that was subject to prolonged litigation in the United States. In 2010, the Leopold Museum paid the original owner’s family $19 million to get the work back. The Wally case set precedents all over the world, prompting Austria to rewrite its restitution laws and unleashing a flood of similar lawsuits. But while the Leopold Museum is celebrating Wally as a person, the museum is making no mention of her portrait’s troubled past.

(Images: Portrait of Wally, 1912, Leopold Museum, Vienna; Holy Family (detail), 1913, private collection; Two Female Nudes (detail), 1912, private collection; Woman in Black Stockings (Wally Neuzil) (detail), 1913, private collection; Wally Neuzil, ca. 1912; Seated Woman in Black Dress (Wally Neuzil) (detail), 1912, private collection.)

THIS OTTO DIX IS NOT A PAINTING Contrary to reports in the NY Times, it is a lithograph, of which 65 examples exist.
THE GURLITT TROVE:
More Complicated Than It Seems
Back in November, it was described as “an unimaginable trove of art confiscated or...

THIS OTTO DIX IS NOT A PAINTING Contrary to reports in the NY Times, it is a lithograph, of which 65 examples exist.

THE GURLITT TROVE:
More Complicated Than It Seems

Back in November, it was described as “an unimaginable trove of art confiscated or banned by the Nazis”: 1,500 works said to be worth $1.4 billion. But the works confiscated by the German authorities from the late Cornelius Gurlitt, son of the dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, may not be worth all that much, and many of them are probably not Nazi loot. The IFAR Journal reports on this extremely complex, ongoing case…

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