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Visegrad Group
DECLARATION OF THE VISEGRAD GROUP COUNTRIES AND SLOVENIA
Meeting of the Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Group Countries - Warsaw, 8 December 2004
Restitution of works of art
Returned works of art
Painting attributed to Jacob van Walscapelle (artist active in 1665-1718), Flowers in a Glass Vase (oil, canvass 76 x 61.5 cm.). Looted from the National Museum in Warsaw; restituted in April 2001 from the United States.
Painting by Adriaen Brouwer (1605/6-1638),
Peasants in an Inn
(oil, copper plate 17.5 x 23 cm.). Looted from the National Museum in Warsaw; restituted in February 2002 from Great Britain.
Painting attributed to Georg Pencz (ca. 1500-1550),
Holy Trinity
(oil, wood-board 51.3 x 39.2 cm). Looted from the National Museum in Warsaw; restituted in February 2002 from the United States.
Court ledger (15 th century) and district record-book (16th century). Looted from the State Archive in Cracow; restituted in March 2002 from Germany.
Silk tapestry, Persia, 16 th century (275 x 212 cm.) Looted from the Czartoryski collection. Restituted to the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow in May 2002 from the United States.
Sculpture attributed to Giovanni Maria Padovano (1493-1574)
Head of a Young Man
(white marble, 23 cm. high). Looted from the National Museum in Warsaw; restituted in July 2002 from the United States.
Charles – François Hutin (1715-1776) Woman in an armchair Oil, canvas 77 x 55,5 cm.
An early 15th century breviary (liturgical book containing texts of prayers recited at canonical hours). Removed from Wrocław City Library (formerly Stadtbibliothek Breslau) during the last war; restituted from Great Britain in early 2005.
School of Malopolska, late 15th century, Virgin and Child; tempera on wooden board 31,5 x 22,5 cm. Looted in 1944 from Konopka family collection in Warsaw; restituted in December 2004 from United States.
A page from one of the manuscripts (Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra, commentary to the Torah; 14th -15th century), removed by the Germans from the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Wroclaw and ultimately discovered at the National Library in Prague. The collection of 34 manuscripts and 6 incunabula returned to Wroclaw in December 2004.
Two pages from a 15th century Dominican gradual (service book containing the musical portion of the mass sung by the cantor and choir) - which went missing from the parish collection of the Church of Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary in Racibórz during World War II. Restituted from the United Kingdom in June 2005.
Portrait of a Courtier
(also known as the
Portrait of Charles VIII
– king of France)
Oil on wood, 42 x 32.5 cm.
Two relief panels (Bearing of the Cross and Crucifixion) from an altarpiece at Wkryujście (f. Ückermünde), early 16th c. Removed by the Red Army from the region of West Pomerania; restituted in March 2006 from a museum in Riga (Latvia).
Church book
IURA VICARIORUM ECCLESIE CATHEDRALIS POZNANIENSIS
(15th century), from the collection of the Archdiocese Archive in Poznań, removed by Germans during World War II. In 2004 it was identified in the collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague and returned to Poland in January 2007.
Aleksander Mroczkowski (1850-1927)
Harvest
, 1882, oil on canvas, 42 x 81 cm. Lost in the WW II, restituted in 2008 from the United States.
Pieter de Grebber (born in 1600)
Portrait of the reading man
XVII century, oil on wood 69,8 cm. x 50,8 cm. Looted in the WW II, restituted in 2008 from the Great Britain.
The flag of the Association of Polish Legionnaires, Pabianice, looted from Pabianice in September 1939, restituted in 2009 from Germany.
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