"Verification of the art must still be done, but from a layman's view it appears to be the same pieces that were taken in Pretoria."
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"South Africa art stolen from Pretoria museum recovered", BBC News, United Kingdom, 2012, Retrieved 27 March 2025.
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Irma Stern
Irma Stern (2 October 1894 – 23 August 1966) was a South African artist who achieved national and international recognition in her lifetime. Stern was born in Schweizer-Reneke, a small town in the Transvaal, of German-Jewish parents. Her father was interned in a concentration camp by the British during the Second Boer War because of his pro-Boer leanings. Irma and her younger brother, Rudi, were thus taken to Cape Town by their mother. In 1901, the family returned to Germany and later would cons
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