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Vienna Philharmonic to Return Stolen French Painting

Posted on: May 3, 2014 by Hélène Deslauriers

For decades, the Vienna Philharmonic, a 172-year-old institution, held in its storage facility a painting by French artist Paul Signac paintend in 1883. The painting, taken by a German official in 1940 from a French Resistance fighter, was given as a gift to the Viennese orchestra for performances given to German soldiers in France in […]