The Asian Age

‘ Lost’ Klimt drawing found in Austria

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Vienna: A drawing by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, which disappeare­d from a museum collection, has been found in the effects of a recently deceased secretary, authoritie­s said on Tuesday. The drawing Zwei Liegende (“Two Reclining Figures”) is one of four works by Klimt and fellow pioneer of Viennese Modernism Egon Schiele that have been at the centre of a drawn- out legal battle between the city of Linz and the heirs of artist and collector Olga Jaeger. Jaeger had given the works to a museum in Linz on long- term loan in 1951. But when her descendant­s asked for them back in 2006, they were nowhere to be found.

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