![]() ICE returned an 18th century, leather-bound, hand-written manuscript, missing since 1943, to Venafro, Italy. Manuscript taken during World War II returned to Italian town In July 2010, the Leopold Museum agreed to compensate the family estate for the artwork. It is illegal to import stolen property into the U.S. Since this painting was owned by the Jaray family - not the Leopold Museum - the U.S. In 1997, the Leopold Museum loaned "Wally" to The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. In 1994, "Wally" became part of the newly-formed Leopold Museum. military forces and turned over to the government-owned Austrian National Gallery in Belvedere Palace. ![]() Bondi Jaray during the Holocaust.Īfter the war, the painting was seized by U.S. "Wally" was painted by Egon Schiele, one of the most prominent Austrian artists of the 20th century, in 1912. ![]() has entered into a settlement agreement with the Leopold Museum in Austria and the estate of Lea Bondi Jaray on the civil forfeiture action involving the "Portrait of Wally" painting. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that the U.S. Leopold Museum to pay $19 million for "Portrait of Wally" painting The paintings were formally welcomed home in September 2010 after being displayed at the Goethe Institute in Manhattan. Eighteen of them were done by Heinrich Buerkel, a native of the area. These 11 paintings were among 40 missing works from the Pirmasen Municipal Museum's collection. An ICE agent tracked the remaining few to friends of the family. serviceman who had served in Pirmasens in 1945 turned a number of the paintings over to ICE. The paintings were taken from the museum during World War II. ICE returned 11 oil paintings to the Pirmasen Municipal Museum in Germany. ICE Cultural Heritage Repatriations Paintings missing since WWII returned to Germany
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