Heirs get 19 million dollars for stolen arts

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25 Jul 2010

A dispute of 12 years to prove the stolen art by the Nazis rooted to world war 2. The difficulty ended on Tuesday over an agreement with the museum and the heiress. The oil paintings is dated by 1912 and will be givern back to the Vienna museum and will be available on display. The art was stolen by a Jewish art dealer the person who was behind the stealing was a Nazi agent.

The oil paintings is entitled as Portrait of Wally by Austrian expressionist Egon Schielie. Egon received a settlement from the leopold museum to own the paintings. The estate named Lea Bondi paid $19 million to showcase the paintings for three weeks. The oil paintings describes the Jewish Heritage and culture. The paintings subjected to many proceedings at the court in New York since 12 years.

The paintings was lent to museum of modern art in New York by Leopold museum. The judgment was ordered to return the paintings to Austria without any acknowledgment as it had been stolen. After a year the U.S judge Loretta Preska ignored the argument over the painting as it was not stolen. At last the Leopold museum stressed on the paintings in a good faith from the legitimate owners.

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