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N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 5 5 1 Discoveries FromTopEdgardEgasFourThposiTiononLEFTLEgCarLgusTavCarusThEEagLEspauLgauguinCabinundErThETrEEsFranCiospomponWiLdgoosE on Ice Art Sorry Third Reich looters. The priceless Albert otten collection is the one that got away. By colin W. sArgent D ear Nazi war criminals and your very quiet descendants While you were heartless- ly confiscating priceless works of art across Germany at least this stun- ningcollectionofpaintingsandsculp- tures escaped your grasp. Disappear- ing overnight in Cologne Germany in 1937 it vanished to a wisp in Swit- zerland spent decades on ice in Can- ada and when the coast was clear re- surfaced in Scarsdale New York and Teaneck New Jersey. Where is this collection today comparatively unknown and un- shown since 1987 dancing with Kan- dinskys Munchs Gauguins Klees Dufys Miros and Signacs Last year the world stepped into the darkness of movie theaters to watch Helen Mirren star in Lady in Gold the real-life story of Maria Alt- mann and her quest to restore Gus- tavs Klimts shimmering Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer to her family. The movie throbbed with chase scenes exotic settings in Vienna and leer- ing Nazis. The directors genius was to make the past sizzle to meet the pres- ent. But it has nothing on the Albert Otten collection which lives among us now in Portland Maine. Many residents of our state rec- ognize Les Otten as the man be- hind Sunday River the man who saved Fenway Park in Boston and the dreamer who is turning The Balsams into a blue-chip world resort. But this story begins a generation earlier with his father ironmonger and steel in- dustrialist Albert Otten who himself couldnt resist big dreams and objects of beauty. Albert Otten was born Albert Ot- tenheimer to a German-Jewish fam- ily in 1886. Soon his hometown of Bonfeld in southern Germany was too small to keep him down. He sur- faced in Cologne as the head of Albert Otten- heimer ironmongery where his keen sense of timing guided him to create branch plants and of- fices across Germany and Treasures in the Otten Collection include from top Fourth Position On Left Leg by Edgar Degas The Eagles by Carl-Gustav Carus Cabin Under the Trees Tahiti by Paul Gauguin and Wild Goose by Francois Pompon.