Belgium museum returns painting to Jewish family after 71 years – Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts takes downs the artwork by German artist Lovis Corinth to send it to the descendants of Gustav and Emma Mayer, who fled their Frankfurt home in 1938 for Brussels; family is looking for 30 other artworks | ynetnews

Belgium’s leading art museum has returned a painting it held for 71 years to the great-grandchildren of a Jewish couple whose property was looted by the Nazis after they fled on the eve of World War Two.
The family’s Berlin-based law firm approached the Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts (Royal Museums of Fine Arts) over five years ago and on Thursday, after a briefing signing ceremony, workers took down the painting and wheeled it off to be packed.