Kurt Grawi (born February 1, 1887, in Hannover; d. 1945 in Santiago, Chile)[1] was a German Jewish businessman and art collector who was persecuted by the Nazis.
[4][7] After Grawi's arrest on Kristallnacht and detention in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938, he had fled Germany for Chile in 1939.
The painting passed through Galerie Nierendorf, and William and Charlotte Dieterle, according to the German Lost Art Foundation.
[6] Sold in New York to fund Grawi's escape from Nazi Germany, the sale was considered to have been made under duress.
[11] In January 2022, after hesitations and delays[12] that attracted criticism, Düsseldorf restituted Marc's The Foxes ("Die Füchse" ) to the Grawi heirs.