BERLIN. The legal battle linked to the 18th century Guarneri violin stolen by the Nazis from its legitimate owner in 1938, a merchant of musical instruments of Jewish origin, ended with a compensation of over 280 thousand euros. The Franz Hofmann and Sophie Hagemann Foundation has announced that it has paid € 285,000 to the descendants of the trader Felix Hildesheimer, according to Dpa. The legitimate owner, after the expropriation of the violin produced in Italy by luthier Giuseppe Guarneri in 1706 and after being removed from his instrument shop, had taken his own life in 1939. The owner of...
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