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France is returning a Nazi-looted Klimt painting to its rightful Jewish owners
2021-03-19
[CBSNews] The French government announced Monday that it will return a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners more than 80 years after it was stolen from a Jewish family in Austria in 1938.

The colorful 1905 oil work by the Austrian symbolist painter titled "Rosebushes under the Trees" has been hanging in Paris' Musée d'Orsay museum for decades.
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Posted by:badanov

#6  [biddle-dee-bum... TING!]

"Eh... zu früh?"
Posted by: Nutsy Antiques Roadshow1706   2021-03-19 22:04  

#5  #3 "I was just admiring your wife's Klimt."

Or: "...getting a whiff of her Kokoschka"
Posted by: Knuckles Jineger7329   2021-03-19 21:32  

#4  Better late then never.
Posted by: ruprecht   2021-03-19 20:23  

#3  "I was just admiring your wife's Klimt."

Back To School (1986ish)
Posted by: Bigfoot Prince of the Jutes   2021-03-19 15:43  

#2  the 2015 movie 'Woman in Gold' is about this although the movie makes a fair number of changes (e.g., in movie, Austria rather than France holds the painting).
Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-03-19 14:04  

#1  Good
Posted by: Dacama   2021-03-19 07:06  

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