Anita Halpin
Anita E. Halpin (née Hess born 1944, Hampstead, London)[1] is a British journalist and political activist.
Halpin is the former chair of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), honorary treasurer for the National Union of Journalists and member of the Trade Union Congress General Council. She is married to CPB Industrial Organiser Kevin Halpin.[2] Previously a long-time member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, she stood for election to the London Assembly.[3]
Restitution of paintings
In 2006 she inherited a painting, as the sole surviving heir to a Jewish German shoe-factory owner, under contentious restitution laws concerning art looted by the Nazis. Berlin Street Scene by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, which had hung in Berlin's Brücke Museum,[4] was sold at Christie's auction house in New York for £20.5million on 8 November 2006.[5]
According to 'Pandora' in The Independent newspaper of 26 May 2008,[6] she has donated the sum of £9,310 to her party.
References
- ↑ "£100m secret of woman they call 'Stalin's granny'", Evening Standard (thisislondon website), 18 November 2006
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