The New York Times has reported that the heirs of the Hungarian banker Baron Mor Lipot Herzog have filed a lawsuit in United States District Court in Washington demanding the return of the art collection they say is theirs and which was allegedly stored in Hungary during the Holocaust but never returned.
According to the Times, in addition to the more than 40 artworks explicitly identified in the filing — including paintings, sculptures and other works by masters like El Greco, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Zurbarán, van Dyck, and Velázquez — the plaintiffs’ lawyers are also asking the Hungarian government for an accounting of all art from the Herzog family in its possession.