Poland Secures Return Of Gorgeous Artwork From Danish Auction Stolen During World War Ii

Poland Secures Return Of Gorgeous Artwork From Danish Auction Stolen During World War Ii

Poland Secures Return Of Gorgeous Artwork From Danish Auction Stolen During World War Ii Recovered painting ‘Lato’ (Summer) by Danish artist Bertha Wegmann – Photo by Magdalena Lorek for National Museum in Wrocław (MNWr) /Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu (cropped) A gorgeous 20th century painting has been donated to Polish cultural authorities following its reappearance after 70 years. Recorded as being housed in a girl’s school in the city that would become Wroclaw after World War II, it never resurfaced following the end of the conflict until last year when it appeared at auction in Denmark. Entitled  Summer,  it depicts a rustic yet beautiful woman breastfeeding one infant while cradling another amidst a golden sea of corn or wheat. A lynchpin to the story is that a region that was once part of Germany, called Lower Silesia, was given over to Poland after the war. The agreement included all state-owned cultural and historical works, but many were either looted or destroyed during the conflagr…