Overview
- The Bavarian State Painting Collections have restituted the early 16th-century work “Hl. Anna Selbdritt” to the heirs of Ernst Magnus.
- The painting, from the school of Lucas Cranach the Elder and dated to about 1522–1525, reached Hermann Göring in 1941 via a Swiss dealer and entered Bavaria’s collection in 1961.
- The Magnus family fled to Lausanne in 1935 and sold artworks to fund onward emigration to Cuba, a context previously labeled “Fluchtgut” that led to a denied claim in 2009.
- The new criteria issued by the Schiedsgericht für NS-Raubgut weigh emigration-related economic duress and allow coerced sales outside the Reich to be recognized.
- Bavarian culture minister Markus Blume and collections chief Anton Biebl framed the return as a corrective step for victims, and the museum said this is its first restitution under the new framework.