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Case Summary
Koenigs Heir's and The Netherlands' Claims Against Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
C.F. Koenigs v. State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science
Précis
Franz Koenigs, a Protestant German banker and art collector with close ties to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the art dealer Paul Cassirer, amassed an important art collection in the Netherlands over the course of his life. In the 1930s, he transferred his art collection, which included the 16th-century painting Landscape with Burning City (“Painting”) by Herri Met De Bles (c. 1500), to the Jewish-owned Lisser and Rosenkranz Bank (“Lisser and Rosenkranz”), as collateral for a loan.
In 1940, Lisser & Rosenkranz went into liquidation due to the ...
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