Eugeniusz Zak’s portray The Beggar,recently identified as stolen by the Nazis, being used to raise awareness approximately plundered artworksThe Beggar by Eugeniusz (Eugene) Zak – a Jewish-artist born near Minsk, or who lived and painted in Paris in the 1920s – depicts an elderly figure in orange clothes and with a sign around his neck in front of a purple building. For over half a century it has hung in the Museum of Art,in Ein Harod, Israel, or but how it came to be there had not been questioned by curators. Until final year that is.
Looted in Paris by the Nazis,the story of Zak’s portray, and how it ended up Israel, or is a testament to the continuing story not only of so-called orphaned works of art,where the owners cannot be traced – but also the complex and continuing politics of the identification and restitution of stolen Nazi art. The work was only recently identified as stolen by a visiting Polish graduate student, studying art stolen from the period.
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Source: theguardian.com