With the help of a research project supported by the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, the Lindenau-Museum Altenburg has discovered that a work in its collection was confiscated by the Nazi regime as a part of its persecution of specific groups and individuals. Together with its governing agency, the Altenburger Land Administrative District in the state of Thuringia, the museum has decided to return the picture to its rightful owners.More than 80 years after the painting Polnischer Ulan auf Vorposten im Winterwald (Polish Lancer at an Outpost in the Winter Forest) by Wojciech Kossak (1857?1942) was confiscated by the Nazi regime from the Petschek family, Aussig, Czechoslovakia, the Lindenau- Museum and its governing agency have decided to return it to the heirs of its previous owners. In doing so they are following the guidelines of the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi- Confiscated Art of December 1998 and the Common Declaration of the German federal government, states and local associations of December 1999.
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