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a member of the Nazi Party, confiscated it from her private collection. By mistake, the painting was restituted to the
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Ages to the mid-twentieth century, can now be seen under one roof. The adapted rooms in the Lower
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acquired some of his collections together with the palaces. Various parts of the imperial art collection were subsequently placed on display at the
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