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Friday, 23 October 2015 11:41

A Bruegel Painting is Embroiled in a Heated Dispute Between Austria and Poland

 Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 'The Fight Between Carnival and Lent.' Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 'The Fight Between Carnival and Lent.' Wikipedia

A painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559), is at the center of a dispute between Austria and Poland after claims arose that the artwork might be Nazi loot.

According to the Financial Times, documents that have surfaced in Krakow's National Museum claim that the Renaissance masterpiece, whose value is estimated at $77 million, was seized by Charlotte von Wächter, the wife of Krakow's Nazi governor Otto von Wächter, during the German occupation of Poland.

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