DALLAS — About 200 works of art from a Jewish lawyer’s collection that were spirited out of Nazi Germany to the U.S. are going up for auction. The works collected by Ismar Littmann being offered Tuesday at Swann Auction Galleries In New York are mostly drawings, etchings and lithographs. The works being auctioned are pieces brought out of Germany before World War II by Littmann’s son, who eventually settled in Texas. Todd Weyman, auction house vice-president, said the collection is notable for its singular focus on German works. “He was looking forward to putting together this great German collection.”The civic-minded collector in Breslau, which after World War II became the Polish city of Wroclaw, co-founded the Breslau Jewish Museum in the city that had a thriving art scene.

Source: National Post March 04, 2019 22:41 UTC