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<\/a> The Austrian Culture Ministry has revealed that it has received a formal request for the restitution of this work, The Art of Painting<\/i> by Johannes Vermeer.\u00a0 The family of Jaromir Czernin has urged its return for nearly 40 years, but the Austrian authorities refused on the grounds the sale was voluntary.\u00a0 However an attorney for the Czernin family argues the work was sold to guarantee the safety of Czernin and his family.\u00a0 The work was sold to Hitler in 1940 for 1.65 million Reichsmark.\u00a0 Irrespective of the outcome of this request, arguing Hitler purchased the disputed work is not exactly the kind of publicity Austria’s Kunsthistorisches Museum would enjoy.\u00a0 <\/p>\nPhilippe Schwab, Vienna museum fears restitution of stolen Vermeer <\/i><\/a>[AFP, Sep. 13, 2009].\u00a0<\/p>\n The Austrian Culture Ministry has revealed that it has received a formal request for the restitution of this work, The Art of Painting by Johannes Vermeer.\u00a0 The family of Jaromir Czernin has urged its return for nearly 40 years, but the Austrian authorities refused on the grounds the sale was voluntary.\u00a0 However an attorney for … Continue reading “Undoing a Sale to HItler”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[280,16,64],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Qw0M-8s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illicitculturalproperty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/illicitculturalproperty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/illicitculturalproperty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illicitculturalproperty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illicitculturalproperty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/illicitculturalproperty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illicitculturalproperty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illicitculturalproperty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illicitculturalproperty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}