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Flechtheim's niece, Rosi Hulisch—who committed suicide before she was to be shipped to a concentration camp—when it was acquired by Kurt Feldhäusser, a member of the Nazi party, in 1938. After Feldhäusser was killed in Germany in 1945, his art collection was left to
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Chagall was seized under duress, and that it was negotiated willingly by Matthiesen's
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had acquired through Weyhe from the
Feldhausser estate had been quietly restituted to the heirs of the Matthiesen Gallery, and that the deaccessioning involved a payment of four million dollars to the museum. The painting,
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