Max Stern: Dominion Gallery

McGill Universities Dept: On Tuesday, a museum in Stuttgart returned one of those paintings to Stern heirs: Concordia and McGill Universities, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, according to Montreal Gazette. Stern, who died in 1987 at age 83, was the owner and director of the venerable Dominion Gallery on Sherbrooke St. W. He died childless and left most of his estate to the universities and mONTREAL In 1938, Max Stern was forced to sell a collection of precious artworks to Nazi Germany to secure permission for his mother to escape the country. The three universities are his heirs. And we re like his children in a sense, said an overjoyed Clarence Epstein, director of the Max Stern Art Restitution Project, headed by Concordia University. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.