Heirs Demand Vermeer from Vienna Museum

The Austrian Culture Ministry revealed earlier this September that it has received a formal request for the restitution of The Art of Painting by Flemish master Johannes Vermeer, which has been displayed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum since 1946. Vienna’s art museum is bracing for a protracted legal battle with the heirs of a man who reportedly sold his Vermeer painting to Adolf Hitler in 1940.