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rare photo of hitlers apartment sheds light on cranach paintings strange journey
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- A photo from the early 1940s shows Cranach's 'Cupid complaining to Venus' in Hitler's Munich apartment.
- The National Gallery acquired the painting in 1963 from E. and A. Silberman Galleries with false provenance.
- The painting was selected by journalist Patricia Lochridge in 1945 from a storehouse of recovered art.
- The painting's earlier ownership is unclear; it may have been seized from a Jewish collector.
- The National Gallery continues to seek information about the painting's provenance.