articles/Work in Helmut Newton photographs could be looted masterpiece — theartnewspaper.com

Arnold Böcklin's Triton Family, 1880-81. © Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg. We were refused permission to reproduce the photographer’s Jenny Kapitan, Pension Dorian, Berlin, 1977 Is a painting in the background of two photographs by Helmut Newton a missing masterpiece by Arnold Böcklin? Tritonenfamilie (Triton family), 1880-81, which the work in the photographs resembles, was looted from the collection of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum (now the Kulturhistorisches Museum) in Magdeburg, central Germany, at the end of the Second World War. The work is among the most important of the 400 paintings that the institution lost towards the end of the war.

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