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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY v. ELICOFON

No. 69 C 93.

536 F.Supp. 813 (1978)

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, Plaintiff, v. Edward I. ELICOFON, Defendant, Elisabeth Mathilde Isidore Erbgross-Herzogin Von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (Grand Duchess of Saxony-Weimar), and Kunstsammlungen Zu Weimar, Plaintiffs-Intervenors.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

August 24, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Taylor, Ferencz & Simon, New York City, for plaintiff-intervenor Grand Duchess of Saxony-Weimar; Benjamin B. Ferencz, Kenneth Simon and Robert Funicello, New York City, of counsel.

Botein, Hays, Sklar & Herzberg, New York City, for plaintiff-intervenor Kunstsammlungen Zu Weimar; Harry I. Rand, Lawrence M. Kaye, and Amy Adelson, New York City, of counsel.

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, for defendant.

Memorandum of Decision and Order

MISHLER, Chief Judge.

Nearly nine years ago, this action was commenced to recover two portraits painted by the celebrated fifteenth century German artist, Albrecht Duerer. Until 1945, the paintings were exhibited in a museum in Weimar known as Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Zu Weimar.1 During the American occupation of Weimar at the end of World War II — sometime between April and July of 1945...

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