Leopold, Rudolf
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- His Egon Schiele, 1973:
- German Wikipedia WWW site, Jan. 9, 2007
- New York times WWW site, June 30, 2010
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Rudolf Leopold (1 March 1925 – 29 June 2010) was an Austrian art collector, whose collection of 5,000 works of art was purchased by the Government of Austria and used to create the Leopold Museum, of which he was made director for life. Claims had been made by Jewish survivors of the Holocaust that some of the pieces in the collection were Nazi plunder and should be returned to their rightful owners.
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