Nora Stiasny

Eleonore Stiasny also known as Nora Stiasny née Zuckerkandl (16 December 1898 – 1942) was an Austrian Jewish art collector murdered in the Holocaust.

Early life

Stiasny was born on 16 December 1898, in Vienna[1] to Otto and Amalie Zuckerkandl who was famously portrayed by Gustav Klimt,[2][3] and was the niece of the great collectors Viktor and Paula Zuckerkandl. She married Paul Stiasny.[4]

Nazi era

She was forced to sell a painting by Klimt, entitled Apple Tree, a few months after Austria's Anschluss with Nazi Germany, and was later deported by Nazis and murdered in 1942 with her mother, her husband and son.[5][6][7]

Restitution claims

In 2000, the Austrian restitution commission advised the return of Klimt's Apple Trees II, hanging in the Belvedere Museum, to the heirs of Nora Stiasny.[8] However, the commission made a mistake. It was later discovered that the painting had belonged to Serena Lederer, and not Nora Stiasny, who had owned a different Klimt.[9][10]

In 2021 France restituted the Klimt Rose Bushes Under Trees ("Rosiers sous les arbres") which had hung in the Musée d'Orsay to the Stiasny heirs.[11][12]

See also

• The Holocaust in Austria
• List of claims for restitution of Nazi-looted art

References

1. "Eleonore (Nora) Stiasny". geni.com. 30 April 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
2. Gallagher, Paul (19 October 2013). "'Nazi loot' is in major National Gallery show". The Independent. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2022. An unfinished portrait by Gustav Klimt used as the centrepiece of the National Gallery's major new exhibition is loot stolen by the Nazis, according to a leading expert. The painting of Amalie Zuckerkandl, which the Austrian was working on when he died in 1918, is the centrepiece of the museum's show Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna in 1900, which runs until January. It is on loan from the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna, which received it as a gift from a private collector.
3. Pogrebin, Robin (26 September 2007). "A Dispute Over a Klimt Purchased in New York". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
4. "Lost Art Internet Database – Jüdische Sammler und Kunsthändler (Opfer nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung und Enteignung) – Stiasny, Paul". 9 October 2018. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
5. "Annonce du lancement de la procédure de restitution du G. Klimt, 'Rosiers sous les arbres' (Inv. RF 1980-195), conservé au musée d'Orsay" [Announcement of the launch of the procedure for the restitution of G. Klimt, 'Rosiers sous les arbres' (Inv. RF 1980-195), kept at the Musée d'Orsay]. culture.gouv.fr (in French). 15 March 2021.
6. Farago, Jason (30 September 2021). "In 'Afterlives,' About Looted Art, Why Are the Victims an Afterthought?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 25 January 2022. March: the French government agrees to return a major landscape by Gustav Klimt to the heirs of Nora Stiasny, a Jewish woman from Vienna, forced to sell it before being sent to her death in 1942.
7. "Eleonore Stiassny". The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names. Yad Vashem. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
8. Esguerra, Cristina (5 February 2018). "The turbulent history of Klimt's Nazi-seized works". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on 5 February 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
9. "AUSTRIA CRITICIZED FOR RESTITUTING KLIMT PAINTING TO WRONG FAMILY". Artforum. 16 November 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
10. "Austria returns wrong Klimt to wrong family". The Art Newspaper – International art news and events. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
11. Thomas, Anne-Lys (16 March 2021). "La France restitue " Rosiers sous les arbres " de Gustav Klimt" [France returns Gustav Klimt's 'Rosebushes under the Trees']. artnewspaper.fr (in French). Retrieved 24 January 2022.
12. "France to return Nazi-looted Klimt painting to Jewish family". The Times of Israel. Agence France-Presse. 16 March 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2022.