Cranach portrait will be sold in accord between Pennsylvania museum and Jewish heirs

This work of art entered the market and eventually found its way to the museum only because Henry Bromberg had to flee persecution from Nazi Germany. That moral imperative compelled us to act.

The details remain murky, but there is little room for doubt that the context of the loss was escape from persecution: in September 1938, Henry and Hertha Bromberg fled Nazi Germany after being ordered to pay the punitive Reichsfluchtsteuer.

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