As the Nazis rose to power, he mocked them, once sayingon a darkened stage, “ I can’t see a thing, not a single thing; I must have stumbled into National Socialist culture.” In 1938, he was captured by Nazi officials, who created a trail of paperwork.... Some of the art was sold to fund the Nazi war effort, they say.... But the judge in the case ruled that there was no evidence that Grünbaum had given them to her voluntarily, writing it was “ a signature at gunpoint.” The Art Institute of Chic

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