Museum Georg Schäfer

[4] A later design by Mies van der Rohe was rejected when the Schweinfurt city council declined to assume the cost of maintaining the museum.

[6] The museum is situated next to the city hall (Rathaus) at the southern entry to downtown Schweinfurt and was opened to the public on 23 September 2000.

[9] Provenance researcher Sibylle Ehringhaus investigated the collection for three years but resigned in 2020, saying that she had identified several plundered works, but that no one at the museum seemed to have any plans to return them to the heirs of the original Jewish owners.

[10][11] Carl Blechen's "Klosterhof mit Kreuzgang" (Monastery Courtyard with Cloister) appeared as lost property in the Lost Art Database of the Zentrum für Kulturgutverluste and had an adhesive label on the back documenting its ownership by Jewish collectors Bertrand and Martha Nothmann.

[12] In 2021, Germany proposed a law to make it easier for private foundations to restitute artworks lost due to Nazi persecution.