Germany Stops Collector From Selling Artwork

August 26th, 2015 by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

WDR Headquarters in Cologne, Germany.

Photo: Raimond Spekking via Wikimedia Commons

German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), which controversially put some of its art collection up for sale to pay off debts, has been banned from exporting two paintings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Max Beckmann.

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