Rediscovered: Klimt's portrait of Osu Prince William Nortey Dowuona

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The story of the discovery of the painting is as remarkable as its creation in 1897 in the context of a Völkerschau in Vienna

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It was probably the most mysterious Klimt painting so far and was considered missing: A Viennese art store offers it from today on at the Tefaf in Maastricht.

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A painting by Gustav Klimt that had been last seen in public in 1928, in the Pavilion of the Secession in Vienna, has reappeared in Tefaf, the International Art and Antiquities Fair that these days brings together collectors, museum directors, historians and gallerists in the city of Maastricht. It is a portrait of a prince of Ghana, Guillermo Nii Nortey Dowuona, whose whereabouts were not known since the Nazi occupation of Austria in 1938, when…

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The portrait of African prince William Nii Nortey, lost in the Nazi occupation of Austria in 1938, for sale for 15 million euros at the fair