Die Brücke painting condemned by Nazis as degenerate up for auction

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2025-05-21

Munich (dpa) - The painting "Märzenschnee" (March Snow) by the German expressionist Max Pechstein is to be sold at auction in Munich next month, the auctioneers announced on Wednesday. The painting was first bought during an exhibition of the Berlin Secession in 1909 by Walther Rathenau, a Jewish industrialist and politician, according to auctioneers Ketterer Kunst. Rathenau was assassinated in June 1922, just months after being appointed foreign......

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