Jewish families who claim the Nazis stole their paintings say they will”go ahead with all guns flaring” in their attempt to regain the art works. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, which is sending the paintings on to a museum in Barcelona, Spain, turned down a request to keep the two paintings by Austrian artist Egon Schiele.
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