"a sculpture of lady justice with cracks at its foundation, justitia holding broken scales and wearing a somewhat disarranged blindfold, while a soldier hides behind a wall"
sold under duress by jewish collector leo bendel (who later died in a concentration camp)
bought by the nazis
after ww ii hung in a presidential estate until 2006
restituted to its rightful heirs in 2019
sold for $773,000 at auction, 6 may 2020. Object Type: painting. Genre: allegory. Date: 1857. Place of creation: Germany. Dimensions: height: 48.5 cm (19 in); width: 26.7 cm (10.5 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Munich Central Collecting Point. Carl Spitzweg - Das Auge des Gesetzes (Justitia) - 1857
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