More Nazi Art Handed Back

A 1913 painting by artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner depicting a lively Berlin street scene will be returned to heirs of the Jewish family that was forced to hand it over to the Nazis before World War II. Kirchner's oil painting "Berliner Strassenszene" has hung in the Bruecke Art Museum in the German capital since 1980. It will remain in the art museum until Sunday, before being returned to heirs of the family that originally owned it. No details of the restitution, including the identity of the original owners, or the heirs, were to be released. The painting's value was estimated to be over €10 million (US$12.59 million), the government said. Irish Art