The Israeli heirs of a Czech Jewish art collector whose collection was looted by the Nazis in 1939 will receive more than 100 of the looted works. Last week, legal representatives for the descendants of Brno-based lawyer Arthur Feldmann signed a restitution agreement that will return 135 drawings by Dutch, Italian and German masters from the 16th to the 18th centuries, currently held in the Moravian Gallery.
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