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Cover: Litzlberg am Attersee, Gustav Klimt, ca. 1914–15. Oil on canvas.

From Robbery to Rescue: The Restitution of a Gustav Klimt Masterpiece

Northeast Regional Office 60 E. 42nd Street, Suite 2540 New York, NY 10165-0018 ushmm.org Judie and Howard Ganek and Betsy and Doug Korn cordially invite you to a special presentation on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

From Robbery to Rescue: The Restitution of a Gustav Klimt Masterpiece Join us as Lucian Simmons, Senior Vice President of Sotheby’s and head of its worldwide restitution team, reveals the Featured Speaker Lucian Simmons extraordinary story behind a Gustav Klimt masterpiece Senior Vice President seized by the Nazis and only recently returned to its Provenance and Restitution rightful owner. Sotheby’s

Under Nazi occupation, the precious possessions of Jewish families became commodities of the Third Reich. Among these stolen treasures were masterpieces of modern art like Wednesday, October 26 Litzlberg am Attersee, a Klimt landscape now valued at more 6–8 p.m. than $25 million. Acquired by Amalie Redlich from her brother and his wife, the painting was confiscated by the Sotheby’s Gestapo from Amalie’s home near Vienna, Austria, and sold 1334 York Avenue, between 71st and 72nd Streets after she was deported in 1941 to the Lodz ghetto, where New York City she disappeared forever. Cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Using archival evidence to corroborate Amalie’s grandson’s childhood memories of the painting, experts conclusively RSVP by October 17 with the enclosed card, or contact established its provenance and it was at last returned to Andi Barchas in the Museum’s Northeast Regional Office Amalie’s grandson, Georges Jorisch, this year. at 212.983.0825 or [email protected].