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Vienna police recover 67 paintings from the Hietzing theft

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Vienna police recover 67 paintings from the Hietzing theft
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Police found 67 of the 72 paintings stolen from a villa in Vienna’s Hietzing district in 2014. The recovered works included paintings by Carl Moll, Koloman Moser and Oskar Kokoschka. Five were unaccounted for at the time of the 2017 announcement. Image: Carl Moll’s Kirschblüten in Grinzing, via Der Standard.

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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