Nora Stiasny Explained

Eleonore Stiasny also known as Nora Stiasny née Zuckerkandl (December 16, 1898  - 1942) was an Austrian Jewish art collector murdered in the Holocaust.

Early life

Stiasny was born on December 16, 1898, in Vienna[1] to Otto and Amalie Zuckerkandl who was famously portrayed by Gustav Klimt,[2] [3] and was the niece of the great collectors Viktor and Paula Zuckerkandl. She married Paul Stiasny.[4]

Nazi era

She was forced to sell a painting by Klimt, entitled Apple Tree, a few months after Austria's Anschluss with Nazi Germany, and was later deported by Nazis and murdered in 1942 with her mother, her husband and son.[5] [6] [7]

Restitution claims

In 2000, the Austrian restitution commission advised the return of Klimt's Apple Trees II, hanging in the Belvedere Museum, to the heirs of Nora Stiasny.[8] However, the commission made a mistake. It was later discovered that the painting had belonged to Serena Lederer, and not Nora Stiasny, who had owned a different Klimt.[9] [10]

In 2021 France restituted the Klimt Rose Bushes Under Trees ("Rosiers sous les arbres") which had hung in the Musée d'Orsay to the Stiasny heirs.[11] [12]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eleonore (Nora) Stiasny. 19 September 2023 . . April 30, 2022 . en-US.
  2. Web site: 2013-10-19. 'Nazi loot' is in major National Gallery show . live . https://archive.today/20140108172037/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/nazi-loot-is-in-major-national-gallery-show-8891813.html . Paul . Gallagher . 2014-01-08 . 2022-01-24. The Independent . en . An unfinished portrait by Gustav Klimt used as the centrepiece of the National Gallery's major new exhibition is loot stolen by the Nazis, according to a leading expert. The painting of Amalie Zuckerkandl, which the Austrian was working on when he died in 1918, is the centrepiece of the museum's show Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna in 1900, which runs until January. It is on loan from the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna, which received it as a gift from a private collector..
  3. News: Pogrebin . Robin . 2007-09-26 . A Dispute Over a Klimt Purchased in New York . en-US . . 2022-01-25 . 0362-4331.
  4. Web site: 2018-10-09 . Lost Art Internet Database - Jüdische Sammler und Kunsthändler (Opfer nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung und Enteignung) - Stiasny, Paul . 2023-12-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181009211835/http://www.lostart.de/Content/051_ProvenienzRaubkunst/DE/Sammler/S/Stiasny,%20Paul.html . 9 October 2018 .
  5. Web site: culture.gouv.fr . 15 March 2021 . Annonce du lancement de la procédure de restitution du G. Klimt, 'Rosiers sous les arbres' (Inv. RF 1980-195), conservé au musée d'Orsay . fr . Announcement of the launch of the procedure for the restitution of G. Klimt, 'Rosiers sous les arbres' (Inv. RF 1980-195), kept at the Musée d'Orsay .
  6. News: Farago . Jason . 2021-09-30 . In 'Afterlives,' About Looted Art, Why Are the Victims an Afterthought? . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-01-25 . 0362-4331 . March: the French government agrees to return a major landscape by Gustav Klimt to the heirs of Nora Stiasny, a Jewish woman from Vienna, forced to sell it before being sent to her death in 1942..
  7. Web site: Eleonore Stiassny . . 19 September 2023 . The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names .
  8. Web site: Cristina . Esguerra . Deutsche Welle . The turbulent history of Klimt's Nazi-seized works . 5 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180205121740/https://www.dw.com/en/the-turbulent-history-of-klimts-nazi-seized-works/a-42163775 . live . 2022-01-24 . 5 February 2018 . en-GB.
  9. Web site: Desk . News . 2018-11-16 . AUSTRIA CRITICIZED FOR RESTITUTING KLIMT PAINTING TO WRONG FAMILY . 2024-02-26 . Artforum . en-US.
  10. Web site: 2018-11-13 . Austria returns wrong Klimt to wrong family . 2024-02-26 . The Art Newspaper - International art news and events.
  11. Web site: Anne-Lys . Thomas . fr . La France restitue « Rosiers sous les arbres » de Gustav Klimt . France returns Gustav Klimt's 'Rosebushes under the Trees' . 2022-01-24 . artnewspaper.fr . 16 March 2021 .
  12. Web site: AFP . France to return Nazi-looted Klimt painting to Jewish family . 2022-01-24 . 16 March 2021 . . en-US.

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