Gemaldegalerie restitutes Vogelstein portrait

April 7 2011

The indefatigable staff at the Commission for Looted Art in Europe have succesfully brokered the return of Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein's Portrait of a Young Woman Drawing to the heirs of an Austrian Jewish family. The painting was stolen by the Nazis from the Rosauer sisters of Vienna in 1938, and entered Hitler's Linz collection in 1941. After the war the painting was held by the Dresden Gemaldegalerie. Two of the Rosauer sisters, Bertha and Jenny, were murdered in Treblink in 1942. They were in their late 70s.

This is the second Rosauer painting that the Commission has restituted - Portrait of a Young Woman in White by Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder was returned in 2010. Full details here. 

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