Legal Opinion
Kunstsammlungen Zu Weimar v. Elicofon
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided June 15, 1981No. 69 C 93PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum of Decision and Order
MISHLER, District Judge.
This action was commenced in 1969 by the Federal Republic of Germany, as the representative of the people of Germany, to recover possession from defendant Elicofon of two portraits painted by the renowned fifteenth century German artist Albrecht Duerer. The paintings disappeared from their place of safekeeping in Germany during the occupation of Germany by the Allied Forces in the summer of 1945. In 1966 the paintings were discovered in the possession of Elicofon, who had purchased them in Brooklyn, New York from an American serviceman…
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