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Christie's hid Nazi past of painting (English)
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Christie's researchers discovered that the painting had been stolen by the Nazis in 1937 from Ulla and Moritz Rosenthal, a Jewish couple who later died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. But the company made no attempt to contact the descendants of the Rosenthals. Instead, it returned the picture to Carl Schünemann, a German private collector and a long-standing Christie's client, w (English)
Nils Pratley
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24 October 2003