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		</div><p>The French government has announced it will return a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners more than 80 years after it was stolen from a Jewish family in Austria in 1938.</p>
<p>The colourful 1905 oil work by the Austrian symbolist painter, titled Rosebushes under the Trees, has been hanging in Paris’s Musee d’Orsay museum for decades.</p>
<p>French culture minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin told a Paris news conference that “the decision to return a major work from the public collections illustrates our commitment to the duty of justice and reparation vis-a-vis plundered families”.</p>
<p>The oil work will be returned to the family of Nora Stiasny, a Holocaust victim who was dispossessed during a forced sale in August 1938.</p>
<p>Ms Bachelot-Narquin said French authorities had not initially identified the painting as being stolen by the Nazis, and its provenance only recently came to light after French government-led investigations.</p>
<p>“It is in recent years that the true origin of the painting has been established,” she said, adding that it was “the only Gustav Klimt painting owned by France”.</p>
<p>“Rosebushes under the Trees is a testament to the lives that a criminal will has stubbornly sought to eliminate.”</p>
<p>Thousands of artworks looted by the Nazis across Europe wound up in French museums after the Allies defeated Nazi Germany in 1945.</p>
<p>Though many have been returned, French authorities have stepped up efforts in recent years to find homes for the scores of hanging heirlooms that remain unclaimed.</p>
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