Museum in Switzerland to pull famous paintings by Monet, van Gogh over Nazi looting fears

A museum in Switzerland is set to remove five famous paintings from one of its exhibitions while it investigates whether they were looted by the Nazis.

The Kunsthaus Zurich Museum said the decision to remove the paintings comes after the publication of new guidelines aimed at dealing with the art pieces that have still not been returned to the families they were stolen from during World War II.

The pieces are part of the Emil Bührle Collection, which was named after a German-born arms dealer who made his fortune during World War II by making and selling weapons to the Nazis.