Editing Emil Nolde (section)

==Nazi-looted art==
Nolde's work has become the focus of renewed attention after a painting entitled ''Blumengarten (Utenwarf)''<ref>[http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-09-10-00-08-12-swedens-moderna-museet-reaches-settlement-with-heirs-of-stolen-emil-nolde-painting.html Painting and Press Release] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320145418/http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-09-10-00-08-12-swedens-moderna-museet-reaches-settlement-with-heirs-of-stolen-emil-nolde-painting.html |date=20 March 2012 }} in ''Art Knowledge News''</ref> from 1917, which now hangs in the art museum [[Moderna Museet]], [[Stockholm]], Sweden, and has been valued at US$4 million, was discovered to have been looted from [[Otto Nathan Deutsch]], a German-Jewish refugee whose heirs, including a [[Holocaust]] survivor, are asking for its return. The Swedish government decided in 2007 that the museum must settle with the heirs.<ref>Savage, James. "[http://www.thelocal.se/9849/20080201/ Stockholm museum in row over Nazi loot]". The Local, 1 February 2008.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Artdaily|title=Moderna Museet and the Heirs of Otto Nathan Deutsch Reach Settlement on Disputed Painting|url=https://artdaily.cc/news/33186/Moderna-Museet-and-the-Heirs-of-Otto-Nathan-Deutsch-Reach-Settlement-on-Disputed-Painting#.YLzN2eFR02w|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429033336/https://artdaily.cc/news/33186/Moderna-Museet-and-the-Heirs-of-Otto-Nathan-Deutsch-Reach-Settlement-on-Disputed-Painting|archive-date=2021-04-29|access-date=2021-06-06|website=artdaily.cc|language=English|quote=STOCKHOLM.- The heirs of Otto Nathan Deutsch and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden have settled a dispute regarding the fate of the painting Blumengarten (Utenwarf) from 1917 by the German expressionist artist Emil Nolde. The artwork disappeared in 1939, following Otto Nathan Deutsch´s flight from Germany to the Netherlands due to Nazi persecution. It resurfaced in the early 1960´s and was acquired in 1967 by then museum director Pontus Hultén on behalf of the Moderna Museet from Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer in Lugano, Switzerland. In 1961, the German Government paid a compensation to the Deutsch family for the lost artwork which will now be returned by the family. Blumengarten (Utenwarf) is being purchased by a private European collector who will loan the painting to the Moderna Museet for up to five years, after which other seminal expressionist paintings from the early 20th century will be lent to the museum for another five years. Both the Deutsch heirs and the Moderna Museet are satisfied with the outcome of the matter, which was settled under the principles of the 1998 Washington Conference, which calls for a fair and just solution taking all relevant circumstances into consideration}}</ref> Deutsch was forced to flee Germany before World War II and left for [[Amsterdam]] in late 1938 or early 1939. The painting was sold to the Swedish museum at an auction in [[Switzerland]], where it had resurfaced in 1967.<ref>Hickley, Catherine. "[https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aACQMX.YcsVg&refer=muse Nazi Victim's Heirs Lose Patience With Sweden on Art (Update1)]". Bloomberg L.P., 29 January 2008.</ref>

In 2015, Nolde's ''Maiwiese (Maienwiese) [Meadow in May''], 1915, (Inv. Nr. 94) was restituted by the [[Lentos Art Museum]] in [[Linz]] to the heirs of Dr. [[Otto Siegfried Julius]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz - Provenance research|url=https://www.lentos.at/html/en/114.aspx|access-date=2021-06-06|website=www.lentos.at|quote=2015: Emil Nolde, Maiwiese (Maienwiese) [Meadow in May], 1915, (Inv. Nr. 94) to the heirs of Dr. Otto Siegfried Julius. The LENTOS is determined to do everything to make the provenance of its holdings as transparent as possible.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Linz restituiert Emil Noldes "Maiwiese" - Linz restitutes Emil Nolde's 'Meadow in May'|url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=QPUOK8781711|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809075734/https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=QPUOK8781711|archive-date=2016-08-09|access-date=2021-06-06|website=www.lootedart.com|publisher=Der Standard}}</ref>

In 2017 the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation restituted the painting “Women in a Flower Garden” by Emil Nolde to the heirs of Eduard Müller who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lehmbruck Museum |title=News: Restitution des Gemäldes "Frauen im Blumengarten" von Emil Nolde - Restitution of 'Women in Flower Garden' by Emil Nolde |url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=SJKPYO118921 |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=www.lootedart.com}}</ref>

In 2019 the city of Düsseldorf agreed to restitute Nolde's The Actress to the heirs of [[Curt Schueler]]. The painting had been acquired for Düsseldorf by [[Conrad Doebbeke]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=German City to Return Painting Stolen by Nazis to Owner's Heirs |url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=TQDWBO702041 |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=www.lootedart.com}}</ref>

In 2000 the [[Lehmbruck Museum|Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum]] Foundation, [[Duisburg]] rejected a restitution request from the family of the Breslau (Wroclaw) collector [[Ismar Littmann Art Collection|Dr. Ismar Littmann]] for Nolde's painting ''Buchsbaumgarten (Boxtree Garden'').<ref>{{Cite web|title=Provenance Research: Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation, Duisburg)|url=https://www.lootedart.com/MFEU4D35361_print;Y|access-date=2021-06-06|website=www.lootedart.com}}</ref>