Show stolen art found on U S army 1121 wall fall old masters loot of nazis hang in office BERLIN loot sleuths have found six valuable paintings stolen from the netherlands by nazis right in the middle of american m military il it a r y g government ov e r n me n t h headquarters e a d qu a arters w where h e r e t they he y w were e r e 0 decorating e cor a t i n t the he of cices of gen lucius D clay and his deputy military governor gen frank A keating slightly red in the face american military government issued a news release explaining that the paint ings were bought in good faith from a german firm of interior decora tors in berlin for 66 marks 8 the german decorators horn brothers explained that they had brought them from the Roomer brad hotel at badenweiler Baden weiler baden in the french zone there would indeed have been seven paintings on headquarters walls the official release edged but one was destroyed in a fire at the german decorators warehouse this was a Dam der which had been bought by mill tary government for 22 marks 2260 2 the loot sleuths of military gov s monuments fine arts and archives section found the pic tures when they undertook to trace netherlands restitution claims the tireless aleu sleuths with bulging port olios folios and art catalogues happened to look on the wall of clay s office and found there van dyck s por per trait of a woman bought for 9 marks on keating s adjacent walls were five more paintings a land 14 marks waterfall by bassano 10 marks salva tor rosa s two mounted riders and battling both 9 marks and grand canal 22 marks the sleuths have traced millions of looted articles from master pieces to sewing machines in their treks across europe but none of them cared to talk about this find one of the underlings of col john 11 alien allen section chief indicated that the dutch might have given some hints as to where to look |