The factory was headquartered in the 1916 building known. He said that Peter Forner, who died at the age of 80 last year, had expressed hope the artwork would be one day returned to its rightful owners. Verdun, Quebec, was home to one of Canadas most important munitions factories during World War II. "It could prompt high school students to stop and ask questions about this period of the war, which is slipping away from us but still an essential part of understanding the world today." Beginning of Battle of Verdun February 1916. "It's a slightly different way of presenting the second world war," Hansch added. The so-called French front had many of its own landmarks but for France and Germany one of its greatest symbols would be Verdun. German troops in action at the beginning of the Battle of Verdun 1916. The painting is an excellent symbol of the franco-german friendship, he says, and can act as a bridge between the past and the present. Hansch said that he went to Berlin in a car at the beginning of August to fetch the work, which, with an estimated price of around 3,500 euros, has more of a historical value than a monetary one. Battle of Verdun, (February 21December 18, 1916), World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. "It's an example of the French school, a bucolic landscape with a fisherman in the foreground and a village in the distance," he told RFI. It was the longest fight of the war with well over. Philippe Hansch, the director of the Centre for Peace in Verdun, says he hopes the public will come forward with information related to the original owners, who have not yet been identified. No, verdun,a french fortress city was sucessfully defended against german attack in feb-dec. His son, Peter, decided to return it to its country of origin and contacted the French embassy in Berlin to do so in January 2019.Īfter an investigation carried out by the French ministry of culture and the commission in charge of compensation for victims of war theft in Berlin ( CIVS), the painting arrived back in France in August 2020. He died a few months later and the painting remained intact. Army and thus prevent a future World War II Marshal Foch overruled him, however. Upon arrival, he found the building had been destroyed, so he decided to keep the painting in his home. Petain held embattled Verdun by a variety of techniques: dogged. The brutal Battle of Verdun was fought between the German and French armies from February to December 1916, claiming one million casualties and 300000. The small landscape by the student of the Barbizon school had been hanging in the Forner family living room in Berlin for 75 years.Īlfred Forner, an officer in the German Luftwaffe who was stationed in Pas-de-Calais during World War Two, was tasked by a superior to take the painting to an address in Berlin during a leave of absence in 1944.
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