Word: schwarzburg
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...destroyed in Germany during World War II. Soon the finding was authenticated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art: the paintings were 1499 portraits of a Nuremberg couple, Hans and Felicitas Tucher, by the German master Albrecht Dürer. They had disappeared in 1945 from safe-keeping at Schwarzburg Castle near Weimar during the American occupation. By 1969 Eliçofon was embroiled in a fierce custody battle for the Dürers that was to involve several claimants and stretch over a dozen years...
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