Savely Blumstein was a Jewish art collector from Riga.
The Gestapo confiscated valuable art works from the Blumstein's home in 1941. He fled Nazi -occupied Latvia with his brother Salomon and sought refuge in the United States.
Blumstein died in 2009, leaving two sons, Neil and Philip.
In 2013, a Chagall painting from his collection was found in the Gurlitt trove, the stash of artworks hidden by the son of Hitler's art dealer, Hildebrand Gurlitt. Experts confirmed that "Allegorical Scene" painted by Chagall in the mid-1920 ,had been looted by the Nazis.
The family has registered several paintings that were confiscated by the Gestapo on the German Lost Art Foundation database, including André Derain's, Portrait of a Girl, Salomon van Ruysdael's " Waterscape, Dirck Hals Group Picture and twenty others.