US judge rejects a request to retrieve a picture of … – Terra Peru

A federal judge of the Central District Court of California (USA) has opposed the return of a painting by Camille Pissarro resting in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, according to official documents obtained today by Efe.

The purpose of this legal dispute is the canvas “Rue St.Honoré, apres-midi, effet de pluie” which according to the plaintiffs, was stolen by the Nazis in 1939.

The picture is a Parisian street scene painted by Pissarro in 1897 that has been exposed in the museum since 1993, and that the Spanish State acquired as part of the collection of Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.

The original lawsuit was filed in 2005 by photographer Claude Cassirer, who lives in La Mesa (California), who in 2000 discovered that the painting was in the Madrid museum.

Cassirer, who died in September 2010 at age 89, Californians used the courts to require the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Kingdom of Spain being handed the precious Pissarro.

After his death, his heirs remained open to consider that the work belonged to Lilly Cassirer Neubauer, grandmother Claude Cassirer, a Jewish woman who managed to flee Nazi Germany and was forced to dispose of the case painting in his attempt to get a visa to leave the country.

After the war, Lilly Cassirer claimed judicial work and the German federal government recognized it as his own and gave legal frameworks 120,000 as compensation.

The table was located in the United States in 1951, when it was purchased by art collector Sydney Brody.

He was later acquired by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in 1976.

In June 2012, the case was rejected by the state court to understand that it was a matter under federal jurisdiction, and on appeal, Judge John F. Walter ruled last June 4 that the Spanish laws “applied in this case” and that did not require the return of the work.

The court also indicated that the Spanish law applies because, “although the relationship with California plaintiffs is significant, the relationship of painting to California what is not.”

The judgment concludes that the museum was “not an accomplice to the crime committed by the Nazis.”

In addition, the museum recommended that “reflect and consider” to find a “friendly” resolution to the conflict to honor the commitment of the Spanish government to find “fair solution” to the victims of Nazi persecution.