Two paintings stolen by the Nazis have been found hanging inside Germany’s parliament building, according to research provided by an art historian.
The historian’s report, which was given to Germany’s Bild newspaper, shows that the two works included the oil painting, Chancellor Buelow speaking in the Reichstag, by Georg Waltenberger from 1905, and a chalk lithography entitled Street in Koenigsberg by Lovis Corinth.
A German parliament spokesperson refused to confirm the historian’s findings, but agreed that the two pieces of art were indeed “suspicious cases”.
This new discovery is just the latest in a string of embarrassing revelations for the German government involving priceless art stolen during the Nazi period.
