Art restitution

Gustave Courbet’s Landscape near Ornans returned to the Herzog heirs

Warsaw, Poland · Documented case date:

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Gustave Courbet, Landscape near Ornans · Wikimedia Commons
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Confiscated from the Herzog family’s bank deposit in 1944, Courbet’s landscape entered the National Museum in Warsaw and was returned to the family’s heirs in 2011.

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Art restitutionGustave Courbet

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

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