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Offline Chris_

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€1bn Modernist art haul, 'looted by Nazis', recovered by German police
« on: November 04, 2013, 12:08:41 PM »
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Modernist art haul, 'looted by Nazis', recovered by German police

About 1,500 modernist masterpieces – thought to have been looted by the Nazis – have been confiscated from the flat of an 80-year-old man from Munich, in what is being described as the biggest artistic find of the postwar era.

The artworks, which could be worth as much as €1bn (£860m), are said to include pieces by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann and Emil Nolde. They had been considered lost until now, according to a report in the German news weekly Focus.
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Re: €1bn Modernist art haul, 'looted by Nazis', recovered by German police
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2013, 12:21:42 PM »
All those artists painted like insane people. 

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Re: €1bn Modernist art haul, 'looted by Nazis', recovered by German police
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2013, 03:45:49 PM »
All those Nazis looted like insane people.
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Re: €1bn Modernist art haul, 'looted by Nazis', recovered by German police
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2013, 06:41:38 PM »
Quote from: obumazombie on November 04, 2013, 03:45:49 PM
All those Nazis looted like insane people Democrats.

Just something else they have in common.
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Re: €1bn Modernist art haul, 'looted by Nazis', recovered by German police
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2013, 06:46:04 PM »
Quote from: Dori on November 04, 2013, 12:21:42 PM
All those artists painted like insane people. 

Quote from: obumazombie on November 04, 2013, 03:45:49 PM
All those Nazis looted like insane people.

Quote from: thundley4 on November 04, 2013, 06:41:38 PM
All those Nazis looted like insane people Democrats.
Just something else they have in common.

so I guess everyone is insane except us?.   :whistling:
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Re: €1bn Modernist art haul, 'looted by Nazis', recovered by German police
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2013, 10:16:25 PM »
On a related subject there's a movie coming out this December titled "The Monuments Men" dealing with recovering the art the Nazis stole during the war...looks like it might be pretty good....

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8tz8YeCz1s[/youtube]
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