The great Jewish painter, Lesser Ury, who died a few weeks ago, shortly before his 70th. birthday, having lived all his life in poverty and half-starving himself, complaining always bitterly of his want and his inability to sell his pictures, was actually a miser, who has left a great sum of money behind, his executor revealed to-day.
Behind his canvasses, the executor states, he has found many thousands of paper marks, valuable articles of jewellery and packages of securities, and Berlin banking house has in addition notified him that it has a quarter of a million marks standing to Lesser Ury’s deposit account.
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