A Nazi-looted painting by a German artist was recently returned to its Jewish owners in the United States. The move came after the City Council in the city of Linz, Austria, where the painting had hung in a museum since the 1950s, voted to return “The Seamstress” by Lesser Ury to the family of Louis Lowenthal, a prewar art collector. Lowenthal’s grandson, Michael, said he plans to donate the work to a Jewish museum.
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