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Saturday, November 5, 2011

1915 Painting Returned to Holocaust Heir

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception
President Eisenhower inspects recovered art stolen by Nazis

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The Gustav Klimt painting will be returned to the grandson of Amalie Redlich who was deported to Poland in October 1941 and later killed by the Nazis. 

An arbitration court ruled the art work was improperly seized when the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938.

Painting's sad and sordid story at the link.

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