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Alte Pinakothek

/ ˈaltə pinakoˈteːk /

noun

  1. a museum in Munich housing a collection of paintings dating from the Middle Ages to the late 18th century
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The painting, “Landscape of Italian Character,” is around 300 years old and has been missing since World War II. It will now be returned to the Bavarian State Painting Collections — Alte Pinakothek Museum in Munich, the FBI announced Thursday.

“The reuniting of Lauterer’s complementary landscapes is a real stroke of good fortune. A presentation of the restored companion works is planned for the near future,” Bernd Ebert, curator of the Alte Pinakothek’s collection of Dutch and German Baroque paintings, said in a statement.

The pair will soon be displayed together for the first time since World War II at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, according to Bernd Ebert, the museum’s chief curator of Dutch and German baroque paintings.

In Germany, protesters have stuck themselves to works including Rubens’s “Massacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem,” which hangs in the Alte Pinakothek, in Munich.

It was hung on its own in sepulchral gloom next to photographs that invited prestigious comparisons with Albrecht Dürer’s famous “Self-Portrait” in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi,” or “Savior of the World,” which sold for $450.3 million at Christie’s, a record for any artwork offered at auction.

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