Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge Ivan J. Arvelo of Homeland Security Investigations, New York, today announced the return of an eleventh artwork to the family of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer whose art collection was stolen by the Nazi regime. The drawing, Seated Nude Woman, front view by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele, was seized by the Office’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit in 2024.

A piece of artwork stolen by the Nazis was returned to the family of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer, marking the 11th Nazi-looted piece to be returned by the Manhattan D.A.’s Office, prosecutors said Friday.

At a press conference held in downtown New York City this morning, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the return of an Egon Schiele drawing Seated Nude Woman, front view (1918) to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, the Austrian Jewish cabaret performer whose art collection was stolen by the Nazis. Grünbaum died at the Dachau concentration camp in 1941.

On Friday, for the third time since September, Timothy Reif found himself standing in the New York District Attorney’s Office to accept a modernist drawing that the Nazis looted from his family.