Up to 26 paintings from an art collection once owned by Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler may still be on Czech soil, an expert said Friday after having announced his discovery of seven canvases. "The remaining paintings could still be here," Jiri Kuchar, a writer who has penned two books on the collection which had been deemed lost for decades, told AFP.
Last week Kuchar revealed his discovery of seven paintings from the collection, in addition to another nine found earlier during his five-year-long hunt. The entire collection includes 42 paintings, about 30 statues - five of which have been located by Kuchar - various gifts, as well as a table now in storage in a western Czech chateau. The collection deposited at the southern Czech monastery of Vyssi Brod during World War II disappeared for decades after 1945, when former Czechoslovakia declared it war booty.
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