Bringing Some Clout To The Art Repatriation Fight

“A British peer is in Vienna to try to persuade Austrian authorities to return a £10m painting stolen from a British family by the Nazis.” Lord Janner of Braunstone’s trip to Vienna is the latest salvo in his crusade to shame the Austrians into returning the Egon Schiele painting to its pre-WWII owners, who fled the country in 1938. Austrian law compels the government to turn over all such artworks which are publicly held, but Lord Janner claims that the government is using “cheating, fraudulent, disgraceful” tactics to sidestep the law.