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Case Summary
Bloom v. Emden
Bloom v. Emden, No. 19-cv-10155 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 13, 2022).
Précis
A prominent owner of German department stores and an avid art collector, Max Emden, acquired the impressionist painting Le Palais ducal (“Painting”), one of three similar paintings of the Doge’s Palace in Venice by the French artist Claude Monet (circa 1917).
From 1929 onward, Max Emden lived on the Brissago Islands in Switzerland, and in 1934 he became a Swiss citizen. Whether he sold part of his collection to simply maintain his lifestyle or as a consequence of racial persecution as a Jewish person by the Nazi regime despite having converted to Protestantism in 1893 is disputed between the parties.
In 1940, upon Max Emden’s death in Switzerland, ...
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