Munch, Kirchner Artworks Return to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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A Berlin museum will return three graphics by Edvard Munch and one by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner to the heirs of a collector who escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the U.S., according to museum officials and the heirs’ lawyers.
Curt Glaser was director of Berlin’s Art Library and an art critic who counted Munch among his friends. Persecuted for his Jewish origins by the Nazis, he was suspended from his job and evicted from his apartment in April 1933. He auctioned most of his collection in May and left Germany in July that year.