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3 unusual facts about Franz Koenigs


Franz Koenigs

The major part of the collection was exhibited in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and a minor part in Kiev.

During the war, the Allies decided with the Joint Declaration that all transactions between the occupied countries and the German occupier would be invalid, and that all art should be returned.

In January 1941 Van Beuningen sold the whole collection to Hans Posse, who acted for the Führermuseum in Linz.



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