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.

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 ...

He died in 1935. In 1938, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s family bank, Bank Mendelssohn & Co., founded in 1795, was seized by the Nazis and transferred to non-Jewish ownership.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"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.