[MSN] Police Recover Valuable Painting In German Art Theft

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Police Recover Valuable Painting In German Art Theft
 
A stolen painting estimated to be worth half a million euros (650,000
dollars) has been recovered by German police, nine months after art thieves
took it from the Mannheim Art Gallery in the south-west of the country. 

The picture, Peacetime, by Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885), depicts a 19th-century
soldier guarding a fort that is being overwhelmed by vines. 

Police said Thursday the painting was recovered the previous evening near
the city where it was stolen late on March 18 and one person was arrested.
Police said they would give more details later. 

The 25-by-49-centimetre oil painting, which had been in the gallery for more
than 100 years, is typical of the Biedermeier period of German art. 

The gallery admitted security had been lax while workers were preparing a
new exhibition in a closed part of the gallery where the painting was
hanging.

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