Evening star., 1945-12-14
BY GEORGE KENNEDY.

The National Gallery of Art to-
day listed the 202 paintings from
Germany, valued at $4,000, 900,
which arrived at the institution
Sunday and now are stored in its
air-conditioned storerooms.
The paintings are the ones found
by the American Army on April 7
in the Merkers salt mine near Null
haus, Germany, along with $780,
100000 in gold.
All the paintings are from the
three great galleries in Berlin known
as the Kaiser Friedrich galleries, now
mass of rubble. None of the
paintings stolen from the countries
invaded by the Nazis is included.
Some of the finest examples of
the great Renaissance painters of
Italy, Flanders, Holland, Germany.
and France are among those stored
here The collection was started
when Frederick the Great, in
the mid-18th century, decided to
make his capital the cultural center
of Europe and attracted Voltaire
and other writers and painters to
his court.
The paintings in the Merkers salt
mine were the finest, but not all of
the gallery's paintings. American
officers, inquiring as to the fate of
the remainder, were told that many
valuable paintings were stored near
Berlin in a flax tower with extraor-
dinarily thick masonry walls and
that German soldiers set the con-
tents on fire just before the Russians
captured it.
Much of the galleries vast collec-
tions was stored in the Easements
OF the gallery buildings and de-
stroyed in the bombings.
However, the famous pictures of
the gallery in the history of art,
familiar to the millions who have
PACED through art books as well as
to those who have made pilgrimages
to the gallery, were all preserved in
the salt mine. They were taken
over by Arts Monuments officers of
the American Army and stored in a
museum at Weisbaden after broken
window panes were repaired.
The paintings have to be kept in
dry air to keep the canvas from de-
teriorating, and, because of the
shortage of fuel in Germany it was
decided to move them to the United
States. They were brought from
New York to Washington in a motor
convoy with armed guards.
Whether they will be exhibited
here has not been decided. A state
ment from the gallery said "the
trustees have agreed to accept Gus
tody of the paintings until condi-
tlons in Germany, insuring their
proper care, have been re-estab-
lished."
The collection includes 3 Raph-
aels. Is Rembrandts, Jan Van
Eycks, Botticellis. Memlins. s
Titians, 2 Vermeers, Giotto {
Franz Halls, 3 Holbeins, 2 Nicholas
PouissinS, Roger Van der Weydens
6 Rubens, Albrecht Durers and 3
Velasquez.
The list Of the paintings follows
Albrecht Altdorfer-Rest on the Flight;
Landscape with Satyr Family: Nativity, aTid
Christ's Farewell to His Apostles.
|. ChriStoph Amberger-Cosmograph &c.
baStian Munster
| Jacopo Ainigione-Lady as Diana.
Fra .Angelico--Last Judgment.
austrian Master &c. 1400)-C,hrist, Ma
donna, st. John.
~ austrian Master &c. I410)-crucifixion
VI Hans Baldwung -Grien--Altar of Halle.
Graf Lowenstein; Lamentation for Christ
and Pyramps and Thisbe a1 8
Giovanni Bellini-The Resurrection.
Bohemian &c. 350)-Glatyer Madonna
otticelii---Giuliano de Medici: Madorna
L Of the Lilies; st. Sebastian: e Simcnetta
Vespucci and Venus.
Dick Bouts--Madonna and Child. and
Virgin in Alteration. 4
Peter Breughel-Dutch Proverbs. and
Two Monkeys.
Angelo Bronzino-Portrait Of . YouI7