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Max Slevogt painted one of his most famous works in the Libyan Desert. The conditions were anything but easy: a sandstorm was raging across the landscape. Helpers had to organize windbreaks so that the painter could complete his picture. This can be seen in contemporary photographs. Art historians Sara Pließ and Heike Biedermann however are looking for a very different kind of evidence – grains of sand from the Libyan Desert. They are organizing the microscopic analysis of Slevogt’s Egypt works in the painting restoration workshop at the Dresden State Art Collections.