Jewish cabaret artist’s paintings, stolen by Nazis, to be auctioned
Grünbaum was said to be the inspiration for a character in the 1972 film “Cabaret” and was also a real-life collector of the works of Schiele, an Austrian expressionist artist.
Fritz Grünbaum was an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer and art collector.(photo credit: COURTESY OF CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LTD. 2022 AND GETTY IMAGES)ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA