The Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania has agreed to auction a 16th-century portrait as part of a settlement with the heirs of a Jewish family who were forced to sell the artwork while fleeing Nazi Germany before World War II.
The painting, titled “Portrait of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony,” will be put up for auction to resolve a restitution claim from the descendants of the original owner, the museum announced on Monday. The museum acquired the portrait, attributed to the German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop, from a New York gallery in 1961 and has exhibited it since.
The portrait originally belonged to Henry Bromberg, a Hamburg magistrate who inherited a significant collection of Old Master paintings from his father. Bromberg and his wife, Hertha, faced severe Nazi persecution and ultimately left Germany in 1938, making their way to the United States via Switzerland and France.
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