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Seven valuable art pieces plundered by the Nazis more than 80 years ago are being returned to the heirs of a cabaret performer, who was killed during the Holocaust and

Seven valuable art pieces plundered by the Nazis are being returned to the heirs of a cabaret performer, who was killed during the Holocaust.

Seven valuable art pieces plundered by the Nazis more than 80 years ago are being returned to the heirs of a cabaret performer, who was killed during the Holocaust and whose massive art collection was stolen by the Third Reich

By some estimates, the Nazis stole 650,000 works of art from 1933 to 1945, many from Jewish families who were arrested and then killed in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Seven pieces of artwork, including sketches and paintings by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, were returned to the heirs of cabaret performer Fritz Grunbaum. The artwork, valued at $9.5 million, had been looted by the Nazis and resurfaced over the years.

Seven valuable art pieces plundered by the Nazis more than 80 years ago are being returned to the heirs of a cabaret performer, who was killed during the Holocaust and whose massive art collection was stolen by the Third Reich.

Seven valuable art pieces plundered by the Nazis more than 80 years ago are being returned to the heirs of a cabaret performer, who was killed during the Holocaust and whose massive art collection was stolen by the Third Reich. The descendants of Fritz Grünbaum have been seeking the return of more than 400 pieces of art, including 80 sketches by the Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele. The artwork is worth many millions of dollars, although the whereabouts of many of the pieces remain unknown. ...

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During his abbreviated lifetime, a cabaret performer named Fritz Grünbaum amassed a trove of artwork — more than 400 pieces, including 80 sketches and paintings by the Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele that were ultimately plundered by the Nazis. On Wednesday, seven of those pieces were returned to Grünbaum's heirs, who have been fighting for decades to reclaim the looted art. The seven Schiele pieces, valued collectively at $9.5 million, were handed over to the family ...

Seven valuable art pieces plundered by the Nazis more than 80 years ago are being returned to the heirs of a cabaret performer, who was killed during the Holocaust and whose massive art collection was stolen by the Third Reich.