Posts Tagged: Nazi Art
German Commission for Nazi-Looted Art Calls for Legal Changes to ‘Unsatisfactory’ System
The German independent advisory commission on Nazi-confiscated cultural property is calling for the implementation of a new restitution law in Germany that would give individuals...
German City of Dusseldorf Restitutes to Heirs of Jewish Gallery Owner Portrait From Mayor’s Office
The German city of Dusseldorf announced last week that it settled a long-standing dispute regarding a portrait in the city's possession that once belonged to...
US Supreme Court Takes Up Germany’s Appeal in Nazi Art Dispute
The US Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear Germany's bid to block it from facing a lawsuit in American court over medieval artwork that...
The Lauders Must Lead by Example on Transparency for Art Stolen During the Holocaust
The Commission for Art Recovery must lead by example if we are to end a lingering legacy of the Holocaust. No sooner had the Axis powers begun...
Australian Museum Returns First Nazi-Looted Art Piece to Heirs of Original Jewish Owner
The National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne, Australia, agreed to return a portrait in their collection to the heirs of its original Jewish owner, marking the...
Nazi-Era Painting Hoarder Begins Talks With Claimants, Launches Website
German art hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt, 81, began talks with claimants over 40 paintings from his collection of 1,400 works in his homes in Germany and...
Lawyer: Salzburg Nazi Art Find More Significant Than $1.6 Billion Munich Cache
German art hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt's collection of 1,400 paintings in Munich valued at some $1.6 billion, may be less significant than the 60 or...
Oklahoma University Art Museum Sued for Painting Stolen by Nazis
Oklahoma University and its Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art are being sued by a French woman who claims a painting in its collection was...
Nazi-Era Law Blocks Art Recovery
New York Times - Wolfgang Büche was amazed this month when a watercolor seized by the Nazis from the small museum in this eastern city,...
German Recluse, Hoarder of Stolen Nazi Art, Wants His Controversial Billion-Dollar Collection Back
He knows of the internet but has never used it. He hasn't watched TV since 1963. He says he has never loved another person and...
WJC Calls for Online List of Art Recovered From Nazis
AFP- The head of the World Jewish Congress Monday pressed the German government to publish an inventory of a recently discovered vast trove ...
Artworks Worth $1.6 Billion, Stolen by Nazis, Discovered in German Apartment
Art masterpieces seized by the Nazis and thought to have been destroyed in British bombing raids on Germany during WW2 have been found behind rotting...
Jewish Museum of Vienna Deals With Items Looted by Nazis
Twenty-five years after the founding of the Jewish Museum of Vienna, museum officials have admitted that many of the items in the museum's possession were...
Never-Before-Seen Painting of Nazi Goering to Go On Auction Block
A painting that Nazi leader Hermann Goering felt exposed a morphine addiction is going on the auction block next month, according to the UK's Daily...
