After 76 years in Germany, the small untitled artwork by French painter Nicolas Rousseau is back in France.
After 76 years in Germany, the small untitled artwork by French painter Nicolas Rousseau is back in France and exhibited at the World Centre for Peace, Liberty and Human Rights in the northeastern town of Verdun.
For the last fortnight, it has hung in the lobby of the centre, which receives around 60,000 visitors a year, in the hope it will nudge someone's memory and lead the painting back to its owners or their heirs. But when he got to the address in the German capital where he had been told to take the canvas, he found the building in ruins.
Julien Acquatella, of the Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation in Berlin, said Peter had suffered a health problem four or five years ago which entailed a lengthy hospital stay.
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