The Czech National Gallery may be holding artworks looted from Jews during World War II, a museum official admitted. Among the works is a painting attributed to Rembrandt, “Old Man in a Fur Cap,” which may have belonged to French Jewish art collector Adolph Schloss. More than 300 works owned by Schloss were looted by the Nazis in 1943.
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