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longtime business associate living in Paris, the
Viennese Jewish art dealer Otto Kallir. The next month, another Reichel son, Raimund, fled Austria for Paraguay. In the two years following, Oskar Reichel was forced by the Nazis to sell his home, and another son, Max, was deported to a concentration camp and killed. In January 1943, Oskar Reichel's wife, Malvine, was also deported to a concentration camp, and a few months later Oskar died of "natural causes."
46:. Reichel collected many artworks by Egon Schiele and Oscar Kokoschka. Egon Schiele painted a portrait of Reichel in 1910 as well as a black crayon drawing "Portrait Study of Dr. Oskar Reichel with Raised Left Hand" Other Schiele artworks owned by Reichel included "The Self-Seers" and Black Girl ( Girl in Black). Art by Kokoschka included "Two Nudes" and Susanne (1916)
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Reichel carried on a successful art business in Vienna until the March 1938 Nazi Anschluss. By June 1938, Hans Reichel left Austria to settle in Illinois. In November 1938, the Nazis closed down and liquidated Oskar Reichel's art business. By February 1939, he sold his Kokoschka paintings to a
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in Vienna in 1939 was also unsuccessful. The subject of the painting was Hans
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Reichel's business and home were confiscated during World War II, and one of his sons was sent to a concentration camp, where he died. Reichel's wife was deported to a camp, but survived. "To suggest, at that period in Vienna, that there was no pressure is ridiculous," said professor
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sought the return of the Hans portrait." The court ruled in Dunbar's favor and the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision, stating that, under Louisiana law, Dunbar is the clear owner of the Kokoschka by “acquisitive prescription,” because she openly held the painting for 10 years.
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Reichel's eldest son, Maximilian Reichel, born in 1900, was deported in a Transport from Poland to Lodz and murdered by the Nazis in 1942. On 7 May 1943, Oskar died. His widow, Malvine Reichel, was deported with Transport 46c from Vienna, Austria to
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