Georgina Prodhan (Reuters)
By Georgina Prodhan (Reuters)
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The Schmooze Vienna Museum Director Quits Over Looted Art
The director of Vienna’s Leopold Museum, home to extensive collections of work by Austrian artists such as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, has quit in a row over Nazi-looted art. Tobias Natter said he could no longer stay at the museum after some of its most senior staff joined a controversial new foundation associated with…
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Lucian Freud did not live to see the first exhibition of his paintings in Vienna, the city his grandfather Sigmund fled in 1938, but he helped plan the retrospective that opens this week. Freud, considered the greatest British painter of his generation, moved with his family from Berlin to London in 1933 to escape the…
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