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Potsdam (AP) - A 17th century painting that was believed to be lost has returned to the collections of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg after 75 years.
The work "Camp scene with soldiers and women" by Johannes Lingelbach (1622-1674) was considered a war loss, the foundation announced on Tuesday.
It has now been restored.
According to the information, the return was made possible by the collector Thomas Rusche and the mediation of the Cologne auction house Van Ham.
The picture is now to be shown in Caputh Castle.
It came to King Friedrich Wilhelm III through an inheritance in 1811.
(1770-1840) in the Prussian collections.
From the 1930s it was presented in the Grunewald hunting lodge, where it was stolen after the end of the Second World War and later found on the art market.
Since 1945 the foundation has recorded almost 2,000 paintings as war losses.
According to the first loss catalog from 2004, almost 40 paintings have already been recovered through the art trade and from private collections.
They are presented in the Sanssouci picture gallery, in the New Palais, in the Charlottenburg Palace and in the New Pavilion, in the Grunewald Hunting Lodge and in the Caputh Palace.