The painting “Italian Landscape” by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer, stolen from Germany at the end of World War II in 1945, was returned to the country. In this respect reports Fox News.
The FBI presented Lauterer’s work to a representative of the Bavarian State Painting Collection (Munich) at a ceremony held at the German consulate in Chicago.
In the landscape, Lauterer depicted the Italian countryside. It is claimed that a descendant of the American soldier who took the painting with him in 1945 contacted the international organization Art Recovery International for the return of the stolen art.
They tried to sell the painting in 2011, but the museum demanded the rights to the painting. The painting was added to the German Register of Lost Art in 2012.
“The core of our work at Art Recovery International is the investigation and return of works of art stolen by the Nazis and located in public or private collections. Sometimes we encounter such situations where Allied soldiers take items home as souvenirs or spoils of war. “In this case, being on the winning side does not mean being right,” said Christopher Marinello, the founder of the organization. According to him, the owner initially tried to sell him the painting but eventually gave it away for free.
The other day, artist Robert Gemmell Hutchison’s painting “Children Walking on Water” was stolen from the Glasgow Museum (England) 34 years ago. returned to a cultural institution.
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