(Q59526748)
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1630s
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Stormy Landscape (English)
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Paysage par temps orageux (French)
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24 July 2022
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42 centimetre
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29.7 centimetre
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“In 1939, at the beginning of the war, the Schloss heirs put the whole collection — all 333 paintings — into a château outside Paris for safety. This château was discovered and then looted by the Nazis. Almost all the paintings were transported to Linz, Hitler’s hometown, where he was planning to build a huge museum complex to house ‘world-class art’ according to Nazi taste.”But not all the paintings went to Linz. Stormy Landscape was one of about 25 that were “disappeared” for the personal enrichment of two men — one of whom was Postma, who ended up with the Rubens.“Eventually, Postma sold it for 60,000 reichsmark, a lot of money at that time, to a Mr. Rademacher, a German museum official, who was on a shopping spree in Paris. Rademacher took it to Bonn, where it joined the collection of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum.” (English)