Art restitution

Lauterer landscape returned to the Bavarian State Painting Collections

Chicago, United States; Germany · Source report date:

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The FBI handed over Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer’s Landscape of Italian Character in Chicago. The painting had been missing since 1939 and resurfaced in the United States.

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

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