Reiter am Strand

The painting was a possession of art collector and entrepreneur David Friedmann¹, who lived in Breslau. His art collection was expropriated by he nazis around 1941. After transiting through an auctioning house and a museum, it came into Hildebrand Gurlitt's hands in 1945.

After the death of Cornelius Gurlitt, the painting was identified as stolen art by the taskforce Schwabinger Kunstfund in august of 2014.²

When the painting resurfaced, Friedmann's heirs started a lawsuit against Germany in order to get the painting back. It ended up being willfully returned by the Art Museum of Bern after it accepted the estate.

Briefly after being returned, the painting was auctioned at sotheby's.³

The restitution of another Liebermann painting stolen from Friedmann's collection gained public attention in 2016-17. Die Korbflechter had also transited through the Gurlitt collection before it was acquired by an israeli holocaust survivor.⁴ The restitution was settled after a legal battle between the Friedmann heirs and the acquirer.