Send us a textTo learn more, please visit the Worcester Museum's webpage.SHOW NOTES 2:45 Richard Neumann’s grandson Tom Selldorff approached Worcester Museum to take Neumann collection of 16 recovered works on long term loan3:45 exhibition is meant to tell the story of the Neumann collection and efforts to reconstitute it 4:25 Richard Neumann was a collector’s collector 5:10 two exceptional works by Alessandro Magnasco5:50 Madonna and Child by Neri di Bicci7:45 Maerten van Heemskerck Donor Panels9:20 Donor panels held in the Künsthistorisches Museum 12:00 Neumann’s inventory 12:50 Neumann’s lecturing on art in Cuba 13:10 collection includes some works Neumann purchased from the Habsburg Dynasty holdings13:45 Neumann’s primary advisors included Albertina Museum curator Otto Benesch and Italian drawings specialist Lili Fröhlich-Bume14:25 Vienna was a city of Old Master and new artists when Neumann is collecting all while royal collections are also becoming available 16:05 Sophie Lillie’s role in restitution of works to Neumann family 17:40 di Bicci panel discovered in a Sotheby’s catalog by Lillie18:00 materials incorporated into exhibition 18:30 verso of two paintings on pedestals 18:40 di Bicci’s verso 19:00 images in exhibition include French Ministry of Culture ceremony in 2013 for return of six works to Neumann family19:30 Neumann family’s experience of looting speaks to larger narrative 20:00 Neumann family’s efforts to locate looted works20:30 museum’s responsibility for looted works20:50 Worcester Museum publishes all works with incomplete Nazi provenance online and is in the process of working with one family to determine if a work in the Worcester collection is the looted work that the family is seeking21:40 exhibition design: recreation of works in the Neumann’s Vienna home and process of locating works post-war 1950s-202125:20 verso of works 26:50 forced sales / sales under duress27:55 di Bicci’s Madonna and Child and Magnasco’s Monks at Mealtime appeared at auction 30:00 Sotheby’s Art Loss Register search for Magnasco’s Monks at Mealtime 31:20 1938 inventory of Neumann assets32:20 1938 inventory includes paintings but not sculpture or works on paper33:20 Linz Museum and works shipped to Paris34:00 missing from Neumann inventory - van Dyck and Rubens35:00 late 17th C / early 18th C Barogue / Rococo paintings for Linz Museum 35:30 oil sketches37:30 visitor reactions40:15 exhibitions that informed Whitner in preparation of Neumann exhibition 44:45 Sophie Lillie’s book Was Einmal War (What Once Was)46:10 Stephanie Barron’s catalog of Degenerate art exhibition for LACM 47:15 French government website with images of looted works 48:30 Richard Neumann’s legacy is one of generosity and tenacity50:00 escape from Vichy France to CubaPlease share your comments and/or questions at [email protected] by Toulme.To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected]. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]

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