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Ohio auction house halts sale of paintings looted during the Holocaust and billed as ‘unclaimed property’

JL;DR SUMMARY Two 17th-century paintings by Dutch artist Ambrosius Bosschaert, looted from German Jew Adolphe Schloss's collection during World War II, were removed from an Ohio auction after intervention by the Monuments Men and Women Foundation. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustCultural HeritageArt RestitutionLooted ArtArt ProvenanceAmbrosius BosschaertAdolphe SchlossMonuments Men And Women FoundationOhio AuctionNazi Plunder

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Newark, Ohio, United States
"The two paintings, believed to be by Dutch artist Ambrosius Bosschaert, were set to be sold at an auction house in Newark, Ohio, this month until a tip submitted to the Monuments Men and Women Foundation prompted the group to intervene."
Argentina
"The discovery of the two paintings comes weeks after Argentine police recovered a painting that the Nazis looted from a Dutch Jewish art dealer during the Holocaust."
Germany
"Two 17th-century paintings have been taken off the auction block after a Holocaust art restitution organization determined that they had been looted from a German Jews collection in France during World War II."
France
"Two 17th-century paintings have been taken off the auction block after a Holocaust art restitution organization determined that they had been looted from a German Jews collection in France during World War II."
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"The Schloss collection, including the two paintings discovered in Ohio, was stored at Hitlers headquarters in Munich before being stolen in the final days of the war as Allied forces entered the city."

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