German painting turns up 15 years after vanishing

From: Winnipeg Free Press | Date: December 9, 2006 | Copyright information

BERLIN -- A portrait by German expressionist Emil Nolde worth about $660,000 US has been discovered more than 25 years after it went missing, Baden-Wuerttemberg state police said Friday.

The oil painting Nadja was discovered by an art historian who said he stumbled across it when cleaning out his attic and realized the work did not belong to him. The man handed it over to state police.

Painted in 1919, the portrait originally belonged to W...

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