Vienna museum settles in looted painting case
Vienna museum settles in looted painting case VIENNA (Reuters) - A painting by Egon Schiele which was seized by the Nazis on the eve of World War Two was shown in public for the first time in over a decade on Thursday after a Vienna museum reached a "hard-fought" settlement with its remaining claimants. Last year, the Leopold Museum said it had agreed to pay $5 million in compensation to the sole granddaughter of Jenny Steiner, who owned the Schiele painting "Houses by the Sea" when Nazi Germany occupied Austria in 1938, but that negotiations with two other sets of heirs continued. ... //news.yahoo.com/vienna-museum-settles-looted-painting-case-145011117.html
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