Hidden from the Nazis, murdered Jewish artist’s trove of paintings discovered in Prague house Fearful that the occupying Nazi forces in Prague could confiscate a lifetime’s worth of artwork, Jewish painter Gertrud Kauders decided in 1939 to hide her vast array of paintings and drawings. Nearly 80 years later, in the summer of 2018, Michal Ulvr was leading a demolition team tearing down a decrepit house south of Prague when “about 30 paintings tumbled out and fell onto my head,” he told RFE/RL. As the day wore on, the crew turned up more stashes of strikingly beautiful artwork as they...
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