Museum Admits Painting Had Been Taken By Nazis (Q108319013)
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Museum Admits Painting Had Been Taken By Nazis (English)
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RALEIGH, N.C. - A North Carolina art museum has concluded that a 16th-century German painting in its collection was stolen by Nazis from a Jewish collector. In making the announcement, North Carolina Museum of Art Director Lawrence Wheeler said he hoped the heirs of Philipp von Gomperz of Vienna, Austria, would allow the painting, "Madonna and Child in a Landscape," to stay at the museum. Last March, the World Jewish Congress advised the museum that two elderly Viennese sisters - Marianne and Cornelia Hainisch - claimed their great-uncle had owned the painting. The case was one of a number to emerge in recent years in which museums were alleged to be holding artworks plundered by the Nazis. (English)
5 February 2000