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Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Monika Grutters returns three artworks to a descendant of a Jewish French collector who owned the pieces until his death in 1941 after the Nazis occupied France, at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany January 22, 2020. A watercolour entitled "Lady in an Evening Dress" and an oil painting "Portrait of a Lady" are by Jean-Louis Forain, the third work, "Amazonian on Rearing Horse", was a drawing by Constantin Guys which had been in private ownership. REUTERS/Madeline Chambers

Germany returns Nazi art from Gurlitt trove to French family

At a ceremony in Berlin, culture minister Monika Gruetters said the return of the pictures was a small but important step