An Italian painting looted from a German-Jewish art dealer in 1937 by Nazi Germany was returned to the heirs of the rightful owner. The ‘St. Jerome’ painting by Ludovico Carracci, created in the late 16th century in Italy, was one of hundreds of paintings owned by Max Stern, a German art dealer who was forced to sell his artifacts in Cologne, Germany in 1937.
The painting had been hanging in the living room of a Manhattan art dealer, who said he returned it after reading about the recovery of another painting owned by Stern in a newspaper. "I felt the only thing to do was return it," Richard L. Feigen said in an interview. "It was a stolen painting and it had to be given back."
Stern escaped to England in 1937. He later moved to Canada and became an art dealer again. He died in 1987.
