Nora Stiasny

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

Early life

Stiasny was born on December 16, 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.

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.[4][5]

Restitution claims

In 2000, the restitution commission advised the return of Klimt's Apple Trees II, hanging in the Belvedere Museum, to the heirs of Nora Stiasny.[6]

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.[7][8]

See also

References
  1. "Eleonore (Nora) Stiasny". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
  2. "'Nazi loot' is in major National Gallery show". The Independent. 2013-10-19. Archived from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2022-01-24. 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 (2007-09-26). "A Dispute Over a Klimt Purchased in New York". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  4. "Annonce du lancement de la procédure de restitution du G. Klimt, "Rosiers sous les arbres" (Inv. RF 1980-195), conservé au musée d'Orsay".
  5. Farago, Jason (2021-09-30). "In 'Afterlives,' About Looted Art, Why Are the Victims an Afterthought?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-25. 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.
  6. Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "The turbulent history of Klimt's Nazi-seized works | DW | 05.02.2018". DW.COM. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
  7. "La France restitue « Rosiers sous les arbres » de Gustav Klimt". www.artnewspaper.fr. 16 March 2021. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
  8. AFP. "France to return Nazi-looted Klimt painting to Jewish family". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2022-01-24.


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