The Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna has offered to return 10 paintings belonging to the Rothschild family that it had been holding since World War Two. The museum approached one of the heirs of the family for the restitution. It had already handed back all the works stolen by the Nazis from its collections in Austria however on condition that 10 paintings should remain in the Kunsthistorisches. Nevertheless, the museum, basing its decision on a moral point of view, is ready to hand back these works. Austria has asked its museums to check all litigious acquisitions made during the war following the seizure in the U.S of works by Egon Schiele included in the Leopold collection which was on tour in this country.
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