After the fall of Germany, many items of art were moved to the USSR, though, during the following years, most of them were returned to East Germany. There were many reasons for this. The USSR couldn t hand the paintings over directly to West Germany because of the ideology of that time and East Germany wouldn t accept the paintings for legal reasons. To add to that, Russians couldn t forgive the Nazi Germans the destruction of such treasures of Russian culture as the frescoes of Novgorod and the palaces around St. Petersburg including the famous Amber Chamber which was never recovered. And so, the paintings from the private collections of West Germany were kept in the Hermitage, with a strict taboo on exhibition, picking up dust.
Nothing lasts forever, and so the USSR fell apart and the government changed.
In this boiling maelstrom of reforms, the exhibition ban on the paintings was lost, and they were finally shown to the general public. Their fate is yet to be decided. Leave that for the diplomats, the courts, the juries and the judges. The Ebbing Tide at Yport . In the summer of 1883, Renoir worked on the coast of Normandy.