Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Kunstmuseum Basel" in English language version.
«Wir sind glücklich, dass es nun nach 12 Jahren möglich wurde, eine Lösung zu finden», sagt Valerie Sattler, die Grossnichte des von den Nazis verfolgten deutschen Kunstsammlers und Kunstkritikers Curt Glaser. Das Basler Kunstmuseum hat 1933 200 Zeichnungen und Druckgrafiken aus Glasers Sammlung an einer Auktion in Berlin «zu billigen Preisen» erworben, nachdem Glaser wegen der Nazis Arbeit und Wohnung verloren hatte und geflüchtet wa
Doch trotz der internationalen Bedeutung des Falles hält das Museum die Sammlung Freund für unproblematisch.
The city of Basel rejected a claim by the heirs of Curt Glaser, a Jewish art collector persecuted by the Nazis, for the return of more than 100 works by artists including Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse. Glaser was director of Berlin's Art Library and an art historian and critic who had Munch and Beckmann as friends. He was suspended from his job and thrown out of his apartment in April 1933, three months after the Nazis came to power. The artworks were sold at auction in May of the same year to Basel's Kunstmuseum.
Charlotte von Wesdehlen, a Jew, fled Nazi Germany and was in Switzerland when the painting was sold. She had to sell it for financial reasons, which would not have been the case had it not been for Nazi persecution.
