France to return Klimt painting sold under duress during Nazi era

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A Jewish family was forced to sell Rosiers sous les Arbres after the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938. …

The pre-war owner of Rosiers sous les Arbres (Rose Bushes Under the Trees) was Nora Stiasny, from a well-known Austrian Jewish family. She had inherited it from her uncle, the Austrian industrialist and art collector Viktor Zuckerkandl, Ms Bachelot told a news conference at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

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