BERLIN.- An important bronze sculpture in the history of European modern art has been successfully reacquired on behalf of the National Museum’s National Gallery, thanks to support from the Kulturstiftung der Länder (a nationwide cultural foundation) and the Hermann Reemtsma Foundation. The Museum Island’s colonnade courtyard, officially opened in June 2010, now boasts another impressive sculpture – Constantin Meunier’s ‘The Sower’ from 1896. Many Berliners will already be familiar with the figure, as for a long while it stood beneath the Alte Nationalgalerie which had presided over the work since the fifties. Meunier’s bronze sculpture ‘The Sower’ originally formed part of the art collection of Dr. Otto Krebs. After the war, the bulk of his collection was confiscated and removed by the Soviet occupying forces, with only a few works in the collection remaining in Germany, (among them ‘The Sower’). These works were declared the