Leonard Lauder Is Sued Over a Klimt Painting
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The grandson of a woman who died during the Holocaust has sued Leonard Lauder for the recovery of a Gustav Klimt painting, “Blooming Meadow” (1904-05), which he claims belonged to his grandmother and was taken from her as a result of Nazi persecution.
According to the complaint, filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the plaintiff, Georges Jorisch, was born in Austria. In 1938, he escaped with his father, Louis, to Belgium, where they succeeded in hiding out until the end of the war. His mother and his grandmother, Amalie Redlich, remained in Vienna. In 1941, they were deported to the Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland, and were never heard from again.
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