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Aug 29 – Oct 27, 2024
Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1, 1011 PL Amsterdam, Netherlands

In 1940, when the art dealer Jacques Goudstikker and his wife, Dési, fled the Netherlands—invaded by the Nazis on May 10—Jacques died on the way to England. The couple was Jewish and their art had been requisitioned. When the war ended, Dési laid claim to the work that had been stolen and came up against inflexible officialdom. She eventually had to settle. Telling eight powerful stories, including Dési’s, this exhibition focuses on the wartime loss and postwar disappearance of Jewish cultural property in the Netherlands. —Elena Clavarino