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France to return Klimt painting, which hangs in the Musée d’Orsay, to heirs of Viennese Jewish owner (English)
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Laurence des Cars, president of the Musée d’Orsay, says: “Removing such an important painting from the national collections is a heavy decision, which honours our collective commitment to the memory of the victims of Nazi barbarism.” (English)
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Rosiers sous les arbres, was acquired by the Jewish Austrian industrialist and collector Viktor Zuckerkandl in 1911. After Zuckerkandl and his wife Paula died, it was bequeathed to his niece, Eleonore “Nora” Stiasny. She was forced to sell it for a bargain sum in August 1938, shortly after Hitler annexed Austria to Germany, to Philipp Häusler, a professor acquaintance who was a Nazi party member. Four years later, Stiasny and her family were deported and killed by the Nazis. (English)