Max Klinger’s Galatea and its Original Owners | MetCollects

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Curator Denise Allen discusses Max Klinger’s Galatea and the fate of its German Jewish owners, Gustave and Clara Kirstein. The sculpture was restituted back to their heirs through the Commission for Art Recovery of the World Jewish Congress.

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