300-year-old painting returned to German museum after it was stolen by American during WWII
A painting that was stolen during World War II has been returned from the United States back to a museum in Germany, officials said.
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A painting that was stolen during World War II has been returned from the United States back to a museum in Germany, officials said.
Art Recovery International, a company focused on locating and recovering stolen and looted art, tracked down the elusive painting.
The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer to a German museum representative in a brief ceremony at the German Consulate in Chicago
The landscape was in the possession of the family of an American soldier who had served in post-war Germany
Alte Pinakothek announces the first monograph and catalogue raisonnée of the work of Jacobus Vrel Jacobus Vrel. Looking for Clues of an Enigmatic Painter. Eds. Bernd Ebert, Cécile Tainturier, Quentin Buvelot. 256 pages, 224 colour illustrations, 21.5 × 26.5 cm, 8 ½ × 10 ½ in., hardcover. Linen with picture label, high-quality coated paper. £39.95 / US$50.00. MUNICH .- His pictures look rather odd, his figures introverted and his street scenes curiously stage-like. Jacobus Vrel appears to record everyday life in the Dutch Republic during the 17th century, yet creates miraculous worlds ...