Belgium's leading art museum has returned a painting it held for 71 years to the great-grandchildren of a Jewish couple whose property was looted by the Nazis after they fled on the eve of World War Two. The family's Berlin-based law firm approached the Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts (Royal Museums of Fine Arts) over five years ago and on Thursday, after a

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Belgium museum returns painting to Jewish family after 71 years

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS - Belgium's leading art museum has returned a painting it held for 71 years to the great-grandchildren of a Jewish couple whose property was looted by the Nazis after they fled on the eve of World War Two. The family's Berlin-based law firm approached the Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts (Royal Museums of Fine Arts) over five years ago and on Thursday, after a

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BRUSSELS : Belgium's leading art museum has returned a painting it held for 71 years to the great-grandchildren of a Jewish couple whose property was looted by the Nazis after they fled on the eve of World War Two.
The family's Berlin-based law firm approached the Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts (Royal Museum

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A major Belgian arts institution has returned a painting held in its collection for decades to the descendants of a Jewish couple who had the work stolen by the Nazis.
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts on Thursday handed over the painting "Flowers," by German expressionist Lovis Corinth, to a lawyer re...

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The Royal Museums of Fine Arts gave back the painting "Flowers," by German expressionist Lovis Corinth, which had been looted by the Nazis.

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Après des années de recherches des ayants droit, la Belgique a restitué jeudi un tableau expressionniste des Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts dont avait été spolié un couple juif pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle lance aussi un travail de recherche en ligne portant sur 2.800 autres œuvres d’origine incertaine.

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Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts takes downs the artwork by German artist Lovis Corinth to send it to the descendants of Gustav and Emma Mayer, who fled their Frankfurt home in 1938 for Brussels; family is looking for 30 other artworks 

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"Flowers" was painted by Lovis Corinth and belonged to Gustav and Emma Mayer. The couple fled their home in Nazi Germany in 1938 to Brussels and, ultimately, Britain. After the war, Belgian authorities failed to establish the owner of the painting and entrusted it to the museum in 1951.

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