In 2018 Mount Pleasant resident Bruce Berg sued the government of the Netherlands in an effort to recover 144 paintings that once wre part of the inventory of an important art gallery, Firma D. Katz, located in the Dutch city of Dieren and operated by his grandfather and great-uncle. Benjamin and Nathan Katz were...
SC man suing Dutch government for return of family artwork taken during WWII CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) – A Charleston man is working to get back paintings his family lost to the Nazis during World War II. Bruce Berg filed a lawsuit against the Netherlands, the country’s ministry of education, culture and science as well as...
A Charleston man is working to get back what his family lost decades ago…when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime took control of the Netherlands. He’s filed a lawsuit against The Netherlands, the country’s ministry of education, culture and science and a list of museums. He claims the country’s possession of his family’s paintings perpetuates the wrongs...
Suit Accuses Dutch Museums of Holding On to Nazi-Tainted Art Amsterdam — Throughout World War II, the Dutch art dealers Benjamin and Nathan Katz sold art they owned, including works by Rembrandt and Jan Steen, to Nazi officials, in one case in exchange for exit visas that enabled 25 Jewish relatives to escape the German-occupied...
Joel M. Androphy of the Berg & Androphy law firm represented an heir to Firma D. Katz, a former Jewish art gallery partnership in the Netherlands which was forced to sell over one hundred forty valuable paintings to the Nazis and their agents during World War II. Plaintiff Bruce Berg, heir to a partner in...
