Marilynn Alsdorf, née Bruder, was born in 1925 and grew up in the Rogers Park area on the Far North Side of Chicago.
Their collection included 20th century European paintings, antiquities, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian art.
[1] In 2004 the FBI seized from Alsdorf a painting by Picasso, Femme en Blanc, that had been owned by Carlotta Landsberg and that was suspected of having been looted or sold under duress during the Nazi era.
[12] [13] [14] In 2023, Crain’s Chicago Business and ProPublica reported that nine objects from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf collection had been returned by the museum to their countries of origin since the late 1980s.
[17][18] Bennigson v. Alsdorf Stephen Hahn Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg Matthew Bogdanos