An art gallery at Hebrew University is mounting an unusual art exhibit _ without original art.
"Auktion 392-Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Dusseldorf," features reproductions of the paintings that Germany's Nazi government forced art dealer Max Stern to auction off in 1937 because he was Jewish.
Curators had no choice but to use reproductions: Of the 227 paintings Stern was forced to sell, only 3 have been recovered.
For the exhibit, curators relied on photographs taken at the 1937 auction to make full-size sepia-toned copies of 26 of the paintings sold. The show opens Sunday at the Stern Art Gallery in Jerusalem, which is named after …
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