Truckloads of the most valuable art were removed by the family in the last weeks of the war, including three of the five Rubens oil sketches, which were later sold on the market.
One of those sketches, which depicts St. Gregory of Nazianzus, is now being returned to the castle and the foundation that operates it by a museum in Buffalo that bought it in 1952.
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum did not know the work had been misappropriated and illicitly sold and will receive compensation under a negotiated agreement.
"Our goal is to restore the historic integrity of the collection - especially its core works, these five Rubens sketches which belong together as a series." - Tobias Pfeifer-Helke, the director of the foundation overseeing Friedenstein Castle's museums.
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