Jenny Steiner

Her sister Aranka, (married name Munk), was murdered with her daughter Lola in the Litzmannstadt ghetto during the Holocaust.

After Austria merged with Nazi Germany in the Anschluss of 1938, Steiner and her family were persecuted due to their Jewish heritage.

In 1938, Jenny Steiner fled with her daughters Daisy Hellmann and her husband and Anna Weinberg and a granddaughter to Paris, from there to Portugal and then to Brazil.

In addition to carpets and wall reliefs, furniture and paintings were confiscated and seized under the pretext of Reich flight tax debt.

Jenny Steiner died in New York in 1958; her grave is in the Old Jewish Section of the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gate 1, Group 7, Row 30, No.

[10] It was not until the Art Restitution Act of 1998 and its amendment of 2009 that some of the looted works were finally returned to their rightful owners.

[11] The painting by Egon Schiele Häuser am Meer located in the Leopold Museum was the object of a settlement in 2012 after a long dispute.