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Hunt underway for painting lost in World War after TV appearance
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 02 - 09 - 2009

Bavarian detectives are looking for the owner of a painting stolen at the end of World War II, after the item worth an estimated 100,000 euros (142,000 dollars) appeared on a TV show, dpa quoted police officers as saying today.
The painting by artist Frans Francken the Younger, titled The
Sermon on the Mount (St Paul in Lystria), was shown on Bavarian
state television last November, during a programme which assesses the
value of antique items found in viewer's homes.
During the programme on Bayerischer Rundfunk, experts confirmed
the authenticity and value of the painting by Francken, who belonged
to a significant 17th-Century Flemish painting dynasty.
In April, a viewer contacted the Bavarian Office of Criminal
Investigation to alert them that the work of art presented in
November - if indeed genuine - may have come to its current owner
through theft.
The painting measuring 33 by 79.5 centimetres is thought to have
been nabbed from Hitler's so-called Fuehrerbau in central Munich and
has been missing since 1945.
Art experts think the painting, intended in the 1940s for a museum
in the Austrian town of Linz, had not been brought to security in
time as US troops advanced at the end of the war.
As the Bavarian state broadcaster refused to name the individual
who presented the artwork on the TV programme, the police are
appealing to the public for information leading to the person
currently in possession of the painting.
The Bayerischer Rundfunk told the German Press Agency dpa that it
was making use of its journalistic right to protect its sources.


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