George H. de Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a founder of Vox Records and a fourth-generation descendant of the composer Felix Mendelssohn, died of cancer Wednesday in Dusseldorf, West Germany. He was 75 ...

But Mendelssohn now stands before us, disclosed by the most searching of all processes, his own letters to his own friends. And how graceful, how winning, how true, tender, noble is the man !

On March 21, 1816 – as it happened, the birthday of Bach – he was baptized, along with his three siblings, as a Lutheran. His parents, Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn, were baptized a few years later. To ...

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was one of the earliest major German collectors of Van Gogh’s work. The legal complaint records that in 1934 he consigned six other Van Gogh paintings to Rosenberg.

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy reportedly sent his three Picassos to Switzerland for safekeeping shortly after the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933. Soon thereafter, he ordered that they be sold.

Although Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s heirs previously won a $5 million settlement after suing the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim over two other Picassos from his collection, The suit says ...

The family name was made world-famous by composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Now, the historic heritage building in Berlin that preserves the family's legacy is at risk.

The Heirs to the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy estate had previously sued both the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim for two Picassos in their possession that had been owned by their ancestor.

Lawyers representing the heirs contend that Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was forced to begin liquidating his art collection by Nazi policies, which robbed him of income and jeopardized his life.

"The plaintiffs - heirs of Mendelssohn-Bartholdy ('Mendelssohn heirs') - have demonstrated to Bavaria that Mendelssohn-Bartholdy consigned the painting in 1934 to Berlin art dealer Justin K.