In the years leading up to world War I, German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner developed a proto-Expressionist painting style that combined a vibrant palette and lurching brushwork and exemplified the…
The German Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim had parted with the work before fleeing the country in 1933.
A painting once owned by Adolf Hitler will soon be on view in New York.
Behind a lawsuit brought against the Museum of Modern Art by the heirs of George Grosz lies a troubling history of acquiring works seized by the Nazis and sold to support the German war effort