Headline: Painting stolen during WWII returns to National Art Museum in Kyiv
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Ukrainian journalist and TV presenter Oleksii Sukhanov captures the Female Portrait (1898) by Polish and Ukrainian painter Wladyslaw Galimski with his smartphone during the presentation at the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU) in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 15, 2025. The painting that was deemed lost after it had been illegally taken away from NAMU by the Nazis during World War II was discovered at an auction in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2018. Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service and museum workers managed to return the canvas.
Keywords: culture,art,painting,WWII,Nazi,museum,history,NAMU,National Art Museum of Ukraine,fine art,Kyiv,Oleksii Sukhanov,technology,smartphone
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