Milan (AP) - the Director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence calls on Germany to return the Dutch masterpiece stolen by Nazi troops during the 2nd universal war, dramatizing its inaccessibility, hanging a black and white photo of the work with the inscription "stolen" in 3 languages.

Eike Schmidt said in a new year's appeal on Tuesday, in fact that the still life "Vase of flowers" by Dutch artist Jan van Guisum is in the hands of a German family, which did not return it, not paying attention to countless appeals. Instead of this the mediators for family insisted on payment for her return to Italy.

"The view is already considered mandatory property of the Italian country and as a consequence has no opportunity to be" bought", - said Schmidt.

The oil view hung as a share of the Pitti castle collection in Florence from 1824 until the beginning of the 2nd universal war. It was moved for protection during the war, but was stolen by retreating German troops. This did not come out again until the reunification of Germany in 1991, when the proposals to implement it back to Italy started.

"This situation prevents the healing of wounds caused by the 2 Universal War, and the horrors of Nazism," - says German Schmidt. "Germany is not obliged to use the Statute of limitations on works of art stolen during the war, and it is obliged to take measures to ensure that these works were returned to their legitimate owners."

He called" moral long-term " Germany to return to the works of art, adding: "I believe that the German government will arrange it at 1 ability, of course, together with all other works of art stolen by the Nazi Wehrmacht."

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