The court in the United States decided to confiscate the museums of three works by Egon Shile. It is assumed that they were abducted by the Nazis at the Jewish collector

The New York Supreme Court issued a warrant order for the museums of three works by the Austrian artist Egon Shile in connection with suspicions that the paintings were stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish collector during the Second World War. According to CNN, claims with a demand to return the abducted filed the heirs of the collector Fritz Grunbaum.

We are talking about the following works by Shile, performed by watercolors and pencil: “Russian prisoner of war” (Chicago Institute of Arts), “Portrait of Men” (Museum of Arts of Carnegie in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and “Girl with Black Hair” (Memorial Museum of Allen in Oberlina, Ogyo). The cost of each of the works created between 1911 and 1917 is estimated at $ 1–1.5 million.

Museum representatives told CNN that the drawings were bought legally. The warrant notes that during the proceedings they may remain in storage in museums.

Grunbaum was a famous artist Kabaret in Austria, as well as the owner of the art collection, which totaled about 450 works, including 81 shile work. In 1938, Grunbaum was sent to the Dachau concentration camp and killed three years later.