WARSAW, Poland — A priceless sixteenth century Italian portray that was looted by Nazi Germany throughout World War II and found in Japan has been returned to Poland, authorities in Warsaw stated Wednesday.
The “Madonna with Child” attributed to Alessandro Turchi, is the newest of some 600 looted inventive items that Poland has efficiently repatriated. More than 66,000 so-called warfare losses stay unaccounted for. The portray was handed over throughout a ceremony at Poland’s Embassy in Tokyo Wednesday.
Culture Minister Piotr Glinski instructed reporters in Warsaw that the baroque portray was on the Nazis’ listing of the 521 Most worthy items of artwork among the many tens of 1000’s of artworks that they looted once they occupied Poland between 1939-45.
He stated it was “not easy” to elucidate the historical past behind the looted works in addition to the necessity for his or her return. But he stated the “Madonna with Child” was returned following negotiations with the Japanese facet and the “Mainichi Auction Inc. as well as the person who was in possession of the painting have decided to return it to Poland, without any costs.”
Agata Modzelewska, head of the ministry’s division for restitution of tradition objects, stated the Polish facet all the time stresses in negotiations that returning looted artwork is “the best moral and ethical gesture.”
The portray was recognized by ministry consultants at an public sale in Tokyo in 2022. It comes from a group of Poland’s 18th century aristocrat Stanislaw Kostka-Potocki. In 1823, the portray was listed amongst artwork works belonging to a different Polish aristocrat, Henryk Lubomirski, within the city of Przeworsk. It was looted through the warfare and was bought at a New York public sale within the late Nineties.
“More and more of the looted objects are appearing at auctions because the memory (of their past) has weakened and the persons who are in their possession now do not have the full knowledge or are not aware of where the artwork is coming from,” Modzelewska instructed The Associated Press.
Poland has for many years actively sought to repatriate artwork looted through the warfare by the Nazis and Soviet troops.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”