Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Johanna Margarethe Stern" in English language version.
View of Murnau with church', which belonged to the Stern-Lippmann family in Germany before World War II, has ended up in the collection of Eindhoven city council, in the Van Abbemuseum. But 12 descendants of the former owner Johanna Margarete Stern-Lippmann claim it disappeared under dubious circumstances, when their Jewish ancestor fled to the Netherlands and the painting vanished from the family collection. She herself was eventually arrested, deported to Auschwitz and murdered. Hester Bergen, who has been leading the family effort to reclaim the painting, told DutchNews.nl that the family was frustrated with long delays, intrusive questions, and 'factual mistakes' in expert reports commissioned by the Dutch restitutions committee. Their criticisms are the latest in a series of complaints about the committee, which is tasked with issuing 'binding opinions' on whether art was looted during World War II, and whether public museums should return it.
Is that when the bureaucratic nightmare began? "In addition to the great substantive research that I did and the various conversations I had with the director, Charles Esche, I also had to write dozens of letters after registering with the Restitution Committee. I did this to refute one illogical approach after another. I have also filed several complaints with the Minister, had to correct erroneous reports from the Expertise Centre and conduct continuous research to refute incorrect assumptions of the Expertise Centre by providing evidence over and over again. The burden of proof that descendants had to provide was insane in recent years. "
View of Murnau with church', which belonged to the Stern-Lippmann family in Germany before World War II, has ended up in the collection of Eindhoven city council, in the Van Abbemuseum. But 12 descendants of the former owner Johanna Margarete Stern-Lippmann claim it disappeared under dubious circumstances, when their Jewish ancestor fled to the Netherlands and the painting vanished from the family collection. She herself was eventually arrested, deported to Auschwitz and murdered. Hester Bergen, who has been leading the family effort to reclaim the painting, told DutchNews.nl that the family was frustrated with long delays, intrusive questions, and 'factual mistakes' in expert reports commissioned by the Dutch restitutions committee. Their criticisms are the latest in a series of complaints about the committee, which is tasked with issuing 'binding opinions' on whether art was looted during World War II, and whether public museums should return it.
Is that when the bureaucratic nightmare began? "In addition to the great substantive research that I did and the various conversations I had with the director, Charles Esche, I also had to write dozens of letters after registering with the Restitution Committee. I did this to refute one illogical approach after another. I have also filed several complaints with the Minister, had to correct erroneous reports from the Expertise Centre and conduct continuous research to refute incorrect assumptions of the Expertise Centre by providing evidence over and over again. The burden of proof that descendants had to provide was insane in recent years. "
