Overview

• The drawing, titled "Die drei Räuber," reenters the Kupferstichkabinett roughly 80 years after it was deemed lost during World War II.
• The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin said the work surfaced this spring in a consignment at Zurich’s Auktionshaus Koller, where specialist Franz‑Carl Diegelmann identified its Berlin provenance.
• The owner agreed to gift the sheet to the museum following contact initiated by the auction house, avoiding legal restitution proceedings.
• The Kupferstichkabinett originally acquired the Busch drawing in 1909 from the artist’s heirs, and it disappeared after being moved to a Reichsbank deep cellar in 1945.
• The museum notes that three other sheets from the same series remain missing and expresses hope of reuniting the group.