Focus on Villa R and analyze the Degenerate Art.
In 1939 the painting was confiscated from an art gallery in Frankfurt-am-Main by the Nazis as "degenerate art" and sent with other confiscated works in the Degenerate Art auction by the Fischer gallery in the Grand Hotel National in Lucerne, Switzerland. There it was sold to its current owners, the Kunstmuseum Basel.
Degenerate Art auction Fischer Lucerne Grand Hotel National Basel Kunstmuseum Basel