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Return advised for Saint Christopher from Otto Mayer’s collection

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Master of Frankfurt, Saint Christopher, NK 2556 · Mauritshuis / Wikimedia Commons
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The committee found that Saint Christopher, NK 2556, had belonged to Otto Mayer and was confiscated in 1933. It recommended returning the painting to his estate’s beneficiaries.

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

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