UK Gallery To Return Nazi-looted Painting To Heirs Of Jewish Collector

Fuente: International Business Times

The 'Triptych of the Crucifixion' attributed to Flemish painter Joachim Patinir was restituted in 2018 AFP The Tate Britain gallery is set to reunite the great-grandchildren of a Belgian Jewish art collector with a painting looted from his home by the Nazis, officials said on Saturday. "Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy" was stolen from the home of Samuel Hartveld after he fled Antwerp with his wife in May 1940. The artwork by English painter Henry Gibbs was one of hundreds of thousands the Nazis plundered from Jewish families during World War II.