Swiss Langmatt museum settles with Jewish heirs

The Langmatt Museum in Switzerland has agreed terms with the descendants of former owners of two impressionist paintings after research revealed evidence of Nazi-looted art. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A "just and fair solution" has been reached in the case of the painting Fruit and Ginger Pot by Paul Cézanne, the Langmatt Museum and the Langmatt Sidney and Jenny Brown Foundation announced on Thursday. A settlement agreement has been reached with the heirs of the former owner Jacob Goldschmidt (1896-1976). + Nazi-looted art: Is the Kunsthaus Zurich a ‘tainted museum’? The Langmatt Museum had put this painting up for auction in New York in November 2023 as one of three Cézanne works in order to secure the museum's long-term endowment. The total proceeds amounted to the equivalent of around CHF40 million. As the museum reported, a document was found in the Central Archive for German and International Art Market Research in Cologne in the autumn of 2023.