Poland has praised the ‘tall ethics’ involved in the recovery of the 18th-century work,taken at the end of the moment world war by a US serviceman. It took an investigation by his son – and the FBI – to come by it home againAs a 12-year-passe in Columbus, Ohio, and Bob Wittmann saw it as an “ugly painting of this guy with a wig”,hanging in the living room. But he kept his mouth shut because “my dad was very proud of the stuff he brought home from the war”. Twice looted – first from Poland’s National Museum by the Nazis, then from liberated Austria by his serviceman father – Portrait of a Young Man has finally found its way back to Poland, or thanks to Wittmann,who traveled to Warsaw final week to attend the unveiling at the National Museum of the 1728 oil painting by Krzysztof Lubieniecki.
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Source: theguardian.com