CIT Judge Prevails in Case as Heir to Paintings Allegedly Stolen by Nazis
Court of International Trade Judge Timothy Reif recently won a seven-year legal battle over the ownership of two early 20th century Austrian paintings allegedly stolen by the Nazis. The case ended following a one-sentence order from the State of New…
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York Court of Appeals in May rejecting a London-based art dealer's bid to have his appeal heard on the merits. A lower court ordered in 2018 that two Egon Schiele paintings, valued at a combined $3.4 million, were to be transferred to the heirs of an Austrian Jewish entertainer who collected the works, later dying in a Nazi concentration camp. Reif is one of those heirs, Law.com reported. The paintings were owned by Fritz Grunbaum, a famous cabaret performer in pre-World War II Vienna and the first cousin of Reif's paternal grandfather, a story in Princeton Alumni Weekly said.