David Rowland, Who Won Back Looted Art for Jewish Heirs, Dies at 67

Mr. Rowland started working for Glaser’s heirs greater than 20 years in the past and recovered artwork from greater than a dozen personal collectors and museums, together with the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Kunstmuseum Basel. At his dying he was nonetheless working to reclaim Glaser’s work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Kunsthaus Zurich.

“I always valued his ability to communicate to us that he cared,” stated Bettina Basanow, certainly one of Glaser’s heirs, who lives in Denver. “It wasn’t just business. We appreciated him as a friend and lawyer.”

David John Rowland was born in New London, Conn., on March 21, 1956, to Barbara Ann and John Robert Rowland. He spent most of his childhood in close by East Lyme, the place he swam, fished and raced a sailboat in Long Island Sound.

He attended Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and graduated in 1978. Having discovered German in highschool, he spent his junior yr in Vienna.

After graduating from New York Law School in 1983, he returned to Europe whereas finding out on the McGeorge School of Law on the University of the Pacific, spending some months on the University of Salzburg and dealing for a legislation agency in Munich. His fascination for the German-speaking world significantly formed his profession and took him regularly to Berlin.

In addition to his sister Elizabeth, Mr. Rowland is survived by his mom, Barbara Ann Rowland; one other sister, Leslie Rowland Jacques; three nieces; and three nephews.

Not solely did he assist to get better artwork, Mr. Rowland additionally avidly appreciated it. He was a member of the National Arts Club in New York, and in Berlin, the place he stored an condo, he arrange a gallery together with his good friend Frank Kutschera, an architect. They referred to as it Galerie Rowland Kutschera.