Family: 400-Year-Old Painting Stolen By Nazis

WFTV ^ | September 9, 2011

[nickcarraway]

A 400-year-old painting of Christ is at the center of an investigation.

The painting is at a museum in Tallahassee, but it's believed to have been stolen from its original owners by Nazi soldiers.

The grandchildren of a Jewish man claim the painting was stolen from their grandfather in the 1930s, and now they want it back.

The CEO of the museum got a call from the U.S. district attorney about the artwork.

“She had information that indicated that it had been alleged that there was a family who claimed to have prior ownership of the painting and it had been stolen by Nazi soldiers,” said Chuca Barber.

Barber also said she found out the painting and five others were up for auction in a catalog in 1941. Those five paintings were proven to be the property of that family. The painting is estimated to be worth $2.5 million.

[NativeSon]

Also, not sure about “folding camera” these days, I’d go with “fold like a lawn chair”

[NativeSon]

Sure! Let's go for it while we're turning back the clock and rightin those wrongs!

if we can ID some ancestors that were slaves, we can probably score some reparations too

[nkycincinnatikid]

Okeky dokey Bro

[SunkenCiv]

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Effin' Nazis, still going around, stealing paintings and stuff. ;') Thanks nickcarraway. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.