Recent Restitution to Join Klimt at the Neue Galerie

NEW YORK—Heirs of Adele Bloch-Bauer have donated two sculptures by the Belgian artist George Minne to the Neue Galerie, the New York Times reports.

The Austrian government restituted the works, Kneeling Youths (circa 1898), depicting two gaunt youths hugging, to the heirs a week ago, four years after the staff at Vienna's Belvedere Museum realized the works had been looted from the family by Nazis. The sculptures are now shown beside the Klimt portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I just as they were displayed at the 1907 Kunstausstellung in Mannheim, Germany.

Ronald S. Lauder bought the Klimt portrait, which Austrian returned to the Bloch-Bauer heirs last year along with four other Klimt paintings that were looted by the Nazis, last year for the museum for $135 million.

E. Randol Schoenberg, a lawyer for four of the heirs, said that “the family felt very strongly that they wanted to donate them to the Neue Galerie in gratitude to Ronald Lauder and the Galerie for their acquisition of the Klimt painting and keeping it in the public eye.”