North Carolina Art Museum Says It Will Return Painting Tied to Nazi Theft: by EMILY YELLIN
The Amer War Lib'y
Theft: by EMILY YELLIN
(EXCERPT) RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 4 -- After confirming that one of its
most prized paintings had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II
from an Austrian Jewish art collector, the North Carolina Museum of
Art announced plans this week to give the painting back to its
rightful owners, two sisters in Austria.
The painting, "Madonna and Child in a Landscape," by Lucas Cranach the
Elder, a German Renaissance artist, was deeded to the museum in 1964
by an art collector in Beverly Hills, Calif. The museum received the
painting when that collector, Mari...
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