By CLAIRE SAVAGE, The Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz…
CHICAGO — After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer to a German museum representative in a…
During World War II in Germany, an American soldier stole a baroque landscape painting created by 18th-century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer. The family of the solider contacted Art Recovery International to return the stolen painting in what a German museum curator said was a rare moment. Nearly 80 years after the painting went…
