Art Institute defends ownership of watercolor that New York prosecutors say was seized by Nazis

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Art Institute defends ownership of watercolor that New York prosecutors say was seized by Nazis

“Russian War Prisoner” by Egon SchieleGiven in memory of Gloria Brackstone Solow from Dr. Eugene A. Solow and Family/Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago contends that decades of investigation and scrutiny have concluded that a watercolor it now holds was never stolen by the Nazis from a cabaret performer who later died in concentration camp — but rather was legally sold by the man’s heirs.In a detailed court filing Tuesday, th…