{"id":155531,"date":"2020-11-04T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T22:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=155531"},"modified":"2020-11-05T12:43:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T17:43:25","slug":"fbi-returns-gari-melchers-painting-stolen-by-nazis-to-owners-heirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2020\/11\/04\/fbi-returns-gari-melchers-painting-stolen-by-nazis-to-owners-heirs\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Returns Gari Melchers Painting Stolen by Nazis to Owner\u2019s Heirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_155532\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155532\" class=\"wp-image-155532 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/skaters-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"A version of the original Skaters, owned by PAFA, is on display.\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/skaters-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/skaters-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/skaters-768x1085.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/skaters.jpg 906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-155532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A version of the original Skaters, owned by PAFA, is on display.<\/p><\/div><p>A Gari Melchers&rsquo; painting, &ldquo;Winter,&rdquo; originally owned by the Mosse family in Berlin, Germany, and looted by the Nazis when they fled the country, has been repatriated to the owner&rsquo;s heirs. As reported in a 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2019\/10\/23\/fbi-seizes-stolen-melchers-painting\/?utm_source=EagleEye+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=436f07163c-EagleEye+Weekly+Email+%2A%7CRSSFEED%3ADATE%7C%2A&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_89858510b0-436f07163c-137687333\">media release<\/a>, the FBI seized the painting from the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, New York, who was unaware of its origins.<\/p><p>The painting&rsquo;s successful restitution has been widely covered in the press. Here is an article sampling.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/news\/local\/gari-melchers-painting-stolen-by-nazis-is-returned-to-family-of-original-owners\/article_cffff754-1262-58c4-9741-90e5128e0c84.html#tracking-source=home-top-story\">Gari Melchers painting stolen by Nazis is returned to family of original owners<\/a>&nbsp;(<em>The Free Lance-Star<\/em>, October 16, 2020)<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/us-recovers-nazi-looted-painting-trnd\/index.html\">Painting returned 87 years after Nazis stole it from a Jewish family in Berlin<\/a>&nbsp;(CNN, October 16, 2020)<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-museums-albany-painting-377f76d519391ad1dae6e1f879454db5\">Jewish family&rsquo;s painting looted by Nazis in 1933 is returned<\/a>&nbsp;(<em>Associated Press<\/em>, October 15, 2020)<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndny\/pr\/united-states-secures-return-artwork-87-years-after-nazis-looted-it-jewish-family\">United States Secures Return of Artwork 87 Years After Nazis Looted it from Jewish Family in Berlin<\/a>&nbsp;(United States Department of Justice, October 15, 2020)<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/article\/FBI-returns-painting-stolen-by-Nazis-to-owner-s-15649820.php\">FBI returns painting stolen by Nazis to owners heirs<\/a>&nbsp;(<em>Houston Chronicle<\/em>, October 15, 2020)<\/p><div>Gari Melchers cribbed from his original oil painting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pafa.org\/museum\/collection\/item\/skaters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skaters<\/a> (owned by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, or PAFA) to create our watercolor version by the same name. The stolen Winter is a related version.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Gari Melchers&rsquo; painting, &ldquo;Winter,&rdquo; originally owned by the Mosse family in Berlin, Germany, and looted by the Nazis when they fled the country, has been repatriated to the owner&rsquo;s heirs. As reported in a 2019 media release, the FBI seized the painting from the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, New York, who was unaware of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5571,"featured_media":155532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[432,6691],"class_list":["post-155531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-whats-new-umw","tag-gari-melchers-home-and-studio","tag-mdolby","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}