Nazi Gold: Old Master painting may be handed back (Q98694143)
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Nazi Gold: Old Master painting may be handed back (English)
29 November 1997
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The Globe said Sotheby's listed the painting with a notation showing it had been acquired for a museum Hitler planned to build in the Austrian city of Linz.Guenther Henle, an industrialist and political architect of the post- war Christian Democratic government in Germany, bought the painting in 1961 from the Amsterdam dealer Pietre de Boer, who helped the Nazis obtain 300 paintings during the war. (English)