Kyoto museum returns Nazi-looted art to kin of Russian owners

Kyoto museum returns Nazi-looted art to kin of Russian owners

KYOTO, Japan - Clemens Toussaint (L), a 1921 abstract pastel by Swiss painter Paul Klee (1879-1940) is handed over to the representative of the family of a Russian-Jewish couple who owned the painting when it was seized by Nazis in 1937. Masayuki Murata, director of the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum in Kyoto returned the painting on Jan. 29 to the family, 64 years after it was stolen, along with other works of art, while on loan to a German museum.

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