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Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich Returns Painting to Great-Grandson of Jewish Collector Who Fled Germany in 1938

Paul Laporte, a great-grandson of the well-to-do Sofie Heilbronner, who fled Munich for the United States in 1938, spent the past eight years working to reclaim a painting that belonged to his great-grandmother and had been lost as a result of Nazi persecution. The artwork, Music (Arcadian Scene) , 1892, by German painter Albert Lang was returned to Heilbronner’s heirs in a ceremony on September 22 at the German Embassy in Washington, DC. Before Tuesday, it had been held by the Bavarian State Painting Collections, a museum in Munich. A notice from the New York State Department of Financial Services, which administers the Holocaust Claims Processing Office, explains that Heilbronner packed up her artworks before leaving Germany, intending to sell them in New York. Instead, they were seized by the German government and auctioned off; the Lang painting was later discovered in a former Army barracks-turned-warehouse in Munich and eventually ended up in the Bavaria...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 142: Nev MacEwan

Nev MacEwan was a leading player in Wellington club rugby and for Wellington representative teams throughout his career which spanned 1954-67. MacEwan was a lock or No. 8 and specialist lineout forward. He played all his rugby for the Athletic Club, the last three seasons as captain and coach, leading his team to Jubilee Cup...
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Matchday Scoring Highlights: Wellington U16s v Wellington Co-ed Schools U18s

The Wellington Co-ed Schools U18s is a new representative team, with players selected from those Co-ed schools who are mostly playing in the non-Premiership grades in the College Sport Wellington competitions. A number of high profile players have come through and risen to the top of the game from these schools in the modern era,...
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Codex Azcatitlan Goes on View in Mexico City, as Culture Ministry Continues Centuries-Long Quest for Repatriation

The Azcatitlan Codex, a rare manuscript about Aztec history and civilization, recently went on view at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, as the Mexican Culture Ministry continues its nearly two-century-long quest to have it repatriated. The illustrated document, created between the late 16th and early 17th centuries, is on loan from the National Library of France (BnF) as part of the celebrations for the bicentennial of diplomatic relationships between France and Mexico, Le Figaro reports . In exchange, the National Museum of Anthropology sent the Boturini Codex to the BnF. Each document will return to the country that currently owns it by the end of the year. On view until December 6, the manuscript is returning to Mexico for the first time since 1840. Across 20 folios, the codex “combines Mesoamerican pictographic traditions with elements of European writing” and “narrate[s] the Mexica migration from Aztlan to the founding of Mexico-T...
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See 10 Paintings from the Met’s Landmark Chang Dai-Chien Acquisition

In what will surely make for a survey to remember, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired 38 works by the revered Chinese ink painter Chang Dai-chien. The trove includes studies from Dai-chien’s time at Dunhuang, an ancient Buddhist temple complex on the edge of the Gobi Desert, in the 1940s, as well as works from the 1960s and beyond, when his delicate landscapes and still-life unraveled into radiant abstractions. “Chang Dai-chien stands as one of the most important painters of the modern era. He combined a deep knowledge of classical Chinese culture with a transnational perspective to fashion a style of ink painting that was both locally rooted and connected to a wider global outlook,” Met director Max Hollein said in a statement, alluding to the artist’s three-decade artistic journey, from his birth and early life in China through South Asia—from India to Japan and Taiwan—and, in the 1970s, to his later years in Monterey, California. According t...
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Matchday Scoring Highlights: Hawke’s Bay U18s (42) v Centurions U18s (41)

For the neutral observer, this match featured some cracking tries by both teams – and its all packaged up in the highlights below. Hawke’s Bay trailed the whole game but scored a try when it mattered with the final play of the game and kicked the winning conversion on fulltime. Earlier, the Centurions had got...
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Sideline Conversions 21 September (some news and information to start the new week)

Horowhenua-Kapiti and Ories flanker David Leota-Johnson surges forward on Saturday, flanked by teammates, including Petone prop Kafa Katoa and HOBM No. 8 Mika Alaifatu. Photo: Stewart Baid. They beat Thames Valley 57-26.  Monday morning edition: The first week of spring and the start of daylight savings at the end of this week mean the 15s...
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