My country's fight to keep Nazi-looted art is shameful

[Wonder Why]

2. Wikipedia has an interesting but inconclusive take on this.

The painting was bought from Pissarro by the German businessman Julius Cassirer in 1897, and it was inherited by his son Fritz Cassirer and then by Fritz's wife Lilly. She remarried, but in 1939, as a German Jew, she was forced to sell the painting to Jakob Scheidwimmer, an official of the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste [de], for the low price of 900 ℛ︁ℳ︁ to secure an exit visa, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. The painting was sold at an auction in Berlin in 1943 for 95,000 ℛ︁ℳ︁ and disappeared from public view. In 1958, a German court awarded Lilly Cassirer Neubauer compensation of DM 120,000, the fair market value for the work.

Did she accept the "fair market value" as fair? Doesn't say.

Did she feel she got swindled by the offer? Doesn't say.

Was she offered, as an alternative, the rights to the painting if and when it eventually turned up? Doesn't say.

I would recommend anyone interested in this case to look into it further. I checked Wikipedia's discussion of its provenance to see if she had gotten a stolen painting in good faith from an unethical art dealer who might have acquired it illegally but in Wikipedia, it is clear that Cassirer's purchase was good all the way back.