Returned Nazi-looted Painting Causes Controversy

The restitution last month of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s 1913 painting ‘Berlin Street Scene’ to a descendant of the Jewish family who owned it before World War II has “sparked an indignant response from art experts and the regional parliamentary opposition. London-based Christie’s International estimates the oil painting may fetch as much as $25 million at its Nov. 8 auction in New York.”