Germany ‘refuses’ to help trace Nazi-looted £3.5m Edgar Degas painting
When Germany hosts a major conference on Nazi-looted art in Berlin this week, one person who will not be attending is Marianne Rosenberg.
Ms Rosenberg says the German government has refused to help her family recover a painting by the impressionist Edgar Degas that was stolen from her grandfather by the Nazis — despite the fact a Hamburg dealer claims he knows where it is.
“I’m disappointed, to be honest,” Ms Rosenberg says. “I was hopeful the German government would want to deal with this in an exemplary way. But they’ve done nothing.”
Ms Rosenberg is pursuing the case together with her sister, Elizabeth Rosenberg-Clark, and her cousin Anne Sinclair — the ex-wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn,…
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