Commission recommends return of 4 paintings owned by Austrian foundation
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}VIENNA (AP) — A commission set up by Austria's Culture Ministry has recommended that four paintings contained in a Vienna art collection should be returned because they were seized by the Nazis.
The paintings — one by Egon Schiele and three by Anton Romako — belong to the Leopold Museum Private Foundation, which has been criticized by the Jewish community and others for allegedly containing works stolen by the Nazis.
The foundation acknowledged the recommendations — which are nonbinding and were made public Monday — and said it would seek fair solutions.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The commission said the Romako works used to belong to Oskar Reichel, a Jewish doctor who lived in Vienna. It said the Schiele painting belonged to Jenny Steiner whose assets, including art, were confiscated in the late 1930s.