Stolen Schiele Artworks Seized from U.S. Museums

Manhattan prosecutors have seized three artworks by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele from three out-of-state museums, claiming they were stolen from a Jewish art collector who was a Holocaust victim and rightfully belong to the collector's heirs. The artworks, valued at millions of dollars, were seized from the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. The seizures shift the art recovery cases from civil court to criminal court and could set new precedents in the field of Holocaust art restitution.