Paintings From The Collection Of Jacques Goudstikker Exhibition

The exhibition is drawn from the collection of Jacques Goudstikker, who was the preeminent dealer of Old Master paintings in Amsterdam prior to World War II. Mr.Goudstikker, who was Jewish, fled The Netherlands by ship just ahead of the Nazi invasion in May 1940 with his wife, Desi, and their young son, Edo. Tragically, he died in an accident while on board. Mr. Goudstikker left behind more than 1,400 works of art that were looted by the Nazis. About 280 paintings from the Goudstikker collection were returned by the Allies to the Dutch authorities after the War, but rather than restitute the paintings to the family, as the Allies had expected, the Dutch authorities, over the family's protests, kept them in the Dutch national collection. In 1997, Marei von Saher, Goudstikker's daughter-in-law and sole living heir, began a protracted legal battle to recover the paintings, and in February 2006, the Dutch Government decided to return 200 works to her. The collection includes some of the most important Old Masters pictures ever restituted. They offer a broad overview of the variety of Dutch painting, from important landscapes and still lives to history paintings.

Date:May 10, 2008 – September 7, 2008.

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