When we last met this 2,000-year-old marble sculpture of a human head — affectionately nicknamed 'Dennis' — he had been found in a Goodwill in Austin. Now, the Texas chapter in his epic story is coming to an end.
this 2,000-year-old marble sculpture
of a human head — affectionately nicknamed"Dennis" — he had been found in a Goodwill store on Far West Boulevard, discovered to be missing for 70 years from a German museum and put on display in a museum in San Antonio. Now, this chapter in his epic story is coming to an end. Sunday is the last day the sculpture can be seen at the San Antonio Museum of Art."It'll be bittersweet," she said."There might be some relief [because] I can maybe focus on ... not him."Young paid $34.99 for Dennis, buckled him in the car, got him home and realized what she had. She hired a lawyer and spent years negotiating with the German government to send him home.
The bust — thought to depict a Roman nobleman named Drusus Germanicus — dates back to the first century. It was bought by the German king Ludwig I in the 1840s and put on display in a replica of a Pompeiian villa in the city of Aschaffenburg. The city — and the museum — were bombed during World War II, and the head went missing.
It's possible that an American soldier found — or looted — the sculpture from Aschaffenburg after the battle.But Young couldn't simply put the sculpture in a box and mail it to Germany. Repatriating stolen art is extremely complicated. It took her and her lawyer, Leila Amineddoleh, years to come to an agreement with the German government.
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