MISSING EMIL NOLDE CANVAS FOUND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER

The AP reports that a portrait by German expressionist Emil Nolde worth about €500,000 ($658,237) has been discovered more than twenty-five years after it went missing. A spokesman for Baden-Wuerttemberg state police said Friday that the oil painting, Nadja_, 1919, was discovered by an art historian who stumbled across it when cleaning out his attic and realized the work did not belong to him. The man, whose name was not released, handed it over to state police. The portrait originally belonged to Walther Rathenau, the foreign minister of Germany’s Weimar Republic who was murdered in 1922. Rathenau’s brother then inherited the picture, which went missing while in the hands of a transport company in the late ’70s.