(JTA) — An exhibit about world-renowned Jewish Montreal art dealer Max Stern has been reinstated by the mayor of Düsseldorf, Germany, after he cancelled it last month.
Mayor Thomas Geisel told the New York Times that the target date for the revised “Max Stern: from Dusseldorf to Montreal” exhibition is October 2018 in a “more complete and revised form”. A native of Dusseldorf, Stern took over his late father’s art gallery there in 1934 until the Nazis made it illegal for Jews to sell art. During this period, the Nazis looted hundreds of valuable artworks from his gallery. Stern soon left Germany and settled in Montreal, where he established the renowned Dominion Gallery. The list of Stern gallery artworks includes some works in the collection of the Stadtmuseum and the city of Düsseldorf.