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The painting was originally owned by Adolphe Schloss, a Jewish-German industrialist who resided in France and amassed a large collection of Flemish and Dutch paintings. During the war, the portrait at issue was headed for Hitler's planned Führermuseum in Linz, Austria. It was stolen again in 1945 from an Allied collecting point in Munich.
The painting was originally owned by Adolphe Schloss, a Jewish-German industrialist who resided in France and amassed a large collection of Flemish and Dutch paintings. During the war, the portrait at issue was headed for Hitler's planned Führermuseum in Linz, Austria. It was stolen again in 1945 from an Allied collecting point in Munich.