Despite restitution, an important modernist painting from Wrocław identified as a Nazi-looted work remains in the collection of the Silesian Museum in Görlitz. The painting "Aechma fasciata mit Jahrhunderthalle [o. T.]" by the Silesian artist Oskar Moll (1875-1947) was acquired with financial support from the federal government, the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Free State of Saxony.
"A very good solution" has been found with the heirs of the former owner so that it remains accessible to the public, said Markus Hilgert, Secretary General of the Kulturstiftung der Länder. Görlitz is "the ideal place to present the work in the context of German-Polish history".
The Minister of State for Culture, Claudia Roth, thanked the heirs for their "generous cooperation". "Germany has a duty to consistently continue to come to terms with the Nazi theft of cultural property and to contribute to alleviating the injustice suffered by finding amicable solutions," she said, explaining the support for the restitution and repurchase of the Görlitz painting, which reflects an important era in German art history.
