Vienna’s Leopold Settles With Heir on Nazi-Looted Paintings

Vienna’s Leopold Museum said it paid an undisclosed amount to keep two paintings by Anton Romako in a settlement with the heir of a Jewish construction entrepreneur whose art collection was seized by the Gestapo before 1941.

The two paintings, “Greillenstein Castle” and “Countess Kuefstein at the Easel,” were owned by Moriz Eisler, an art collector who lived in Brno, now in the Czech Republic. He was arrested, together with two brothers, in 1939 for “lack of respect for the Fuehrer.” He survived Auschwitz and returned to his Brno home in 1945 to rebuild his company.