Recovery of Friedrich Painting
The Kunsthalle Hamburg then authorized Liebrucks to recover the Friedrich painting. When the two men returned from their vacation, Liebrucks was able to lower the price from an initial 1.5 million euros to 250,000 euros. Confident that he would be compensated later, the lawyer paid with his own money and returned the painting in August 2003 to the Kunsthalle. The two men left for Brazil. The Kunsthalle refused to pay Liebrucks, claiming that he had possibly acted in collusion with the thieves. Liebrucks sued in 2005 and prevailed in June 2006, receiving the 250,000 euros plus a fee of 20,000 euros.
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