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Spoliation Advisory Panel rules that German banker sold Rubens to pay debts and not because of Nazi persecution.

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皇冠体育app today which concluded that Herbert Gutmann, a German banker and art collector, sold , an oil sketch by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, in 1934 to repay business debts he had incurred in the early 1930s and not because of the actions of the Nazis.

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皇冠体育app Spoliation Advisory Panel was designated by the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport as the Advisory Panel for the purposes of considering the claim under Section 3(2) of the Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Act 2009.聽 皇冠体育app Panel was set up in 2000 to help resolve claims on art looted during the Nazi era.

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Published 15 December 2010