Austrian Panel Recommends Restitution of Four Works of Art

A file picture dated 14 February 2008 shows the noted Austrian art collector and museum director Rudolf Leopold, in Vienna, Austria. Leopold died at the age of 85 in a Vienna hospital on 29 June 2010. - EPA/ Han Klaus Techt

VIENNA (AP).- A commission has recommended that four paintings
contained in a vast Vienna art collection should be returned because
they were
either seized by the Nazis or given up against the will of their former
Jewish
owners, Austria’s Culture Ministry said Monday. The paintings — one by
Egon
Schiele and three by Anton Romako — obtained by the Leopold Museum
Private Foundation, which has been criticized by the Jewish community
and others
for allegedly containing works stolen by the followers of Adolf Hitler.

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