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DEUTSCHE KRIMINALPOLIZEI KRI MINALPOLICE EILIGSTELLE PRAG. Prag II, November 3, 1942. B.No. K III/1/42. C.M.v.Weber-Strasse 7. ./. F 18./XI. To the Lord Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia dd in Prague Subject: 2 paintings by Spitzweg. Procedure: Decree v.22.10.1942, Tgb.Nr.I/l0 No. V 3-1-287 and correspondence between senior government councillor Dr. by B o t h and Krim.Kom.Labitzke of 30.10.1942. Attachments: 1 Process /5sheets/. About the two Spitzweg paintings offered to the # group leader State Secretary K.H. Frank the following is noted: These are the paintings "Ständchen im Mondschein" and "Naturforscher mit Schmetterling". The owner of the paintings is the gymnastics teacher H o y e r from Prague; allegedly he inherited them from his father. In the spring of 1994 he decided - according to his own information - to sell the paintings and for this purpose handed them over to an imperial German named Krüger, who presented them to various experts for verification. A professor from the "Alte Pinakothek" in Munich declared her to be genuine, but because of her "skit-like execution" she was inferior; Prof. Hanfstengl from Munich thought she was Falsificate. Later, the art dealer Jäger from Prague was interested in the pictures and sent them to an expert in Vienna, who also declared them wrong. the paintings saw a director Hrbek from Prague, who allegedly here on behalf of the "Dorotheum" Vienna painting