Magdeburg (dpa/sa) – It shows Magdeburg’s old town with the Elbe and Elbe barges: The Magdeburg Cultural History Museum has acquired an oil painting with a city view that has been missing for over 70 years. The Lord Mayor Fritz Markmann, appointed by the National Socialists in 1933, is said to have acquired it for the city, after the Second World War its whereabouts were unclear, as the museum announced on Wednesday. At the end of 2022, the son of a private owner from the western Harz region offered the Kulturhistorisches Museum the 1936 painting by Gerhard Graf for sale. The museum checked and grabbed. Now the 90 by 115 centimeter Magdeburg Elbe panorama has been added to the museum’s collection of paintings.
According to the information, the seller dissolved the household of his deceased parents. He is said to have learned about the history of the picture from the Gerhard Graf Society. As the museum further reported, the picture had moved to Bad Grund in the Harz Mountains with a couple from Berlin around 1970 and was later acquired by the parents of the current seller.
