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When I Paint His Masterpiece: The Beltracchis

Ridiculous Crime

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Wolfgang Jäger's Art Collection

Werner Jäger's was a client of Alfred Fletch time, the famous Jewish art gallery owner who lost his gallery to the Nazis. So in order to save his works from the grubby clutches of the Nazis, Fletch sold a bunch of the paintings to Jäger, Helene's grandpa,. They then hid them in the Cologne mountains for the duration of World War II. The auction houses were stoked to get their hands on all these old masterworks believed lost to time.

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