Eleonore Stiasny also known as Nora Stiasny née Zuckerkandl (December 16, 1898 – 1942) was an
Austrian Jewish art collector murdered in
the Holocaust.
Early life
Stiasny was born on December 16, 1898, in Vienna[1] to
Otto and
Amalie Zuckerkandl who was famously portrayed by
Gustav Klimt,[2][3] and was the niece of the great collectors
Viktor and Paula Zuckerkandl. She married Paul Stiasny.[4]
Nazi era
She was forced to sell a painting by
Klimt, entitled Apple Tree, a few months after Austria's
Anschluss with
Nazi Germany, and was later deported by Nazis and murdered in 1942 with her mother, her husband and son.[5][6][7]
Restitution claims
In 2000, the
Austrian restitution commission advised the return of Klimt's Apple Trees II, hanging in the
Belvedere Museum, to the heirs of Nora Stiasny.[8] However, the commission made a mistake. It was later discovered that the painting had belonged to
Serena Lederer, and not Nora Stiasny, who had owned a different Klimt.[9][10]
In 2021 France restituted the Klimt Rose Bushes Under Trees ("Rosiers sous les arbres") which had hung in the
Musée d'Orsay to the Stiasny heirs.[11][12]
^Gallagher, Paul (19 October 2013).
"'Nazi loot' is in major National Gallery show". The Independent.
Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2022. An unfinished portrait by Gustav Klimt used as the centrepiece of the National Gallery's major new exhibition is loot stolen by the Nazis, according to a leading expert. The painting of Amalie Zuckerkandl, which the Austrian was working on when he died in 1918, is the centrepiece of the museum's show Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna in 1900, which runs until January. It is on loan from the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna, which received it as a gift from a private collector.
^Farago, Jason (30 September 2021).
"In 'Afterlives,' About Looted Art, Why Are the Victims an Afterthought?". The New York Times.
ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 25 January 2022. March: the French government agrees to return a major landscape by Gustav Klimt to the heirs of Nora Stiasny, a Jewish woman from Vienna, forced to sell it before being sent to her death in 1942.