In a recent auction at London’s Sloane Street Auctions, an “exceedingly rare” bronze cast of Egon Schiele’s death mask fetched $24,600—over ten times its estimated price. The mask, created by Austrian sculptor Gustinus Ambrosi just two days after Schiele’s death in 1918
The recent orders to hand back artworks by Austrian painter Egon Schiele to the American heirs of their former Jewish owner, Fritz Gruenbaum, have ignited a legal and ethical debate surrounding the provenance of these pieces. Gruenbaum, an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer
Two artworks by the Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele, looted by the Nazis during World War II, have been restituted to the descendants of the family that originally owned them. The return of the pieces, “Portrait of a Man” (1917) and “Girl
Seven artworks by Egon Schiele will be returned to the heirs of a Jewish cabaret performer who had owned the pieces. The works, most of them portraits of Schiele himself or his wife, were part of a massive art collection owned by
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