After Tate Britain was taken from his home by the Nazis during the Second World War, he is preparing to return a 17th century painting to a family of a Jewish Belgian art collector.
The 1654 study of painter Henry Gibbs said that Aeneas and his family were taken as “racial persecution action” by the Nazis fleeing from Burning Troy. SPOLIATION CONSULTING PANELLooking at the looted works of art.
The panel is now solving the allegations from people or heirs who lost cultural property in the Nazi period in the national collections in the UK.
The British government said that the heirs and great grandchildren of the art collector Samuel Hartved will take the job he left in 1940 in Antwerp, Belgium, with his wife.
Art Minister Sir Chris Bryant praised the panel to “re -unite families with their most valuable items” and called it a “right decision”.
The painting, which is not shown by Tate at the moment, describes the scenes from the epic Latin poem Aeneid and is believed to be a comment on the British civil war.
The panel was purchased by Rene Van Dan Broeck’s collection and house for “Paltry Seam” of Mr. Hartved in 1994 by the Tate collection from Galerie Jan de Maere in Brussels.
He survived the war, but he never reunited with his collection of artworks, which many of them believed to be in galleries around Europe.
Last year, Sonia Klein Trust, founded by Mr. Hartveld’s heirs, launched a claim.
Now a new statement, the Board of Trustees, “Samuel Hartveld’e a terrible Nazi persecution” award that accepts the work of the work of return to return to the work of art, “he said.
Tate director Maria Balshaw said that “it is a deep privilege to help to re -unite this work with his rightful heirs, and” pleased to see that the Spolization process is working successfully to realize it “.
“Although the Provenence of the Work of Art was extensively investigated when it was acquired in 1994, the important facts about the previous ownership of the picture were unknown.”
He said he was looking forward to presenting official trust in the coming months.
