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The Leopold Museum in Vienna will return two looted watercolors by Egon Schiele to the 95-year-old descendent of the original owner.Eva Zirkl had been campaigning to have the watercolors returned to her for nearly 20 years. The artworks had originally belonged to art dealer Karl Maylaender, who was deported to Lodz in Poland from Austria in 1941 and then killed. (English)

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https://plone.unige.ch/art-adr/cases-affaires/five-schiele-watercolors-leopold-museum-and-eva-zirkl

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Karl Mayländer, a Jewish businessman and art collector, was deported from Austria to occupied Poland and later killed in the Holocaust. (English)

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Jewish Collectors and Art Dealers (Victims of Nazi persecution and expropriation)

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https://web.archive.org/web/20191214072523/http://www.lostart.de/Content/051_ProvenienzRaubkunst/DE/Sammler/M/Mayländer,%20Karl.html;jsessionid=3CA35AAEAA96383ED82A345F670743B8.m0

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Mayländer, Karl;Lebensdaten 1872-1941 (?);Beruf Kaufmann;Schicksal Am 23. Oktober 1941 mit Transport 8, Nummer 32, in das Ghetto Lodz deportiert.;Sammlung Sammler moderne Kunst, vor allem Werke Egon Schieles.;Quelle Werner J. Schweiger: Karl Mayländer.- Mitteilungen aus dem Kunstarchiv Werner J. Schweiger, Wien. Nr. 1/ 2001 (German)

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Holocaust victim

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Karl Mayländer

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