Famous masterpiece by Pieter Bruegel the Elder "the Battle of carnival and Lent" 1559, which is now in the Vienna Museum of art history, perhaps, was removed to Vienna wife of the Governor of kraków during the Nazi occupation of Poland

the World famous masterpiece by Pieter Bruegel the Elder "the Battle of carnival and Lent" (1559) appeared in the center of restorative proceedings between Austria and Poland after being released archival evidence that the painting could be stolen nazisti@

Now the work belongs to the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Austrian side says that it is stored there since the XVII century. However, Polish researchers have a different opinion on this. Recently in the archive of the National Museum in Krakow were found documents according to which Brueghel's painting "the Battle of carnival and Lent" was illegally removed from the Museum by Charlotte von waechter (Charlotte von Wächter) — the wife of the Governor of the kraków district, Otto von acoustic opening (Otto von Wächter) during the Nazi occupation Polisi@

Director of the National Museum in Krakow Blonska Diana (Diana Blonska) argues that, according to documents from the Museum archives, Charlotte von waechter visited the Museum in 1939, and took from him the work of Bruegel and other works, "subsequently came to the antique markets of Vienna". Blonska even quotes the letter of Coppery Felix (Feliks Kopera), Director of the Museum at that time, written in 1946 on the authorities of Krakow: "the Museum has suffered a huge, irreplaceable losses at the hands of the wife of the Governor of the district Krakow Mrs. waechter, wreaths 35 years. <...> Among the missing items were such paintings as "the Battle of carnival and Lent" Brueghel".

Poland intends to demand from the Austrian authorities a thorough investigation of the provenance of the painting from the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. So far, the Vienna Museum, States that the picture, taken from Krakow Charlotte von waechter in 1939, it was some other job. Today the painting by Peter Brueghel is estimated at approximately 77 million dollarov@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: artnet.com, artinvestment.ru