Tag: Looted art
Felwine Sarrs novel The Places Where My Dreams reside – Culture
With his essay “Afrotopia”, published in 2016, the writer and economist Felwine Sarr from Senegal wanted to shake up his continent. Colonialism is long gone, but Africa has never achieved…
Kunsthaus Zürich: How the new director wants to deal with the crisis – culture
Ann Demeester likes to take things head on. The new director of the Zurich Kunsthaus had only been in office for six months when she ventured into Zurich’s conservative heart.…
Controversy over Picasso’s painting is getting hotter – culture
The petition is rejected: With this decision, the meeting of the Science Committee in the Bavarian State Parliament on the case of “Madame Soler” ended. This means that the dispute…
Restitution of Nazi-looted art: A suggestion from legal practice – culture
The auction of the painting “Self-Portrait, Reclining” by Max Pechstein from 1909 has now been postponed to autumn. It belonged to a Jewish doctor fleeing the Nazis, and its upcoming…
Debate about a looted art law: the case of Max Pechstein at an auction
A painting by Max Pechstein, which belonged to a Jewish doctor who had to flee the Nazis, is to be auctioned in Cologne. Why Germany finally needs a looted art…
Academy of Arts returns a sketchbook by Max Liebermann – Kultur
A sketchbook by Max Liebermann is restituted by the Berlin Academy of Arts and returned to the heirs of Max and Martha Liebermann. According to a press release by the…
The Stealing of Cameroon’s Cultural Heritage: Madness and Science
Cameroonian and German experts have researched how 40,000 objects from the colony ended up in German museums. Your report gives a new twist to the restitution debate. source site
Debate about looted art: the case of Max Pechstein – Kultur
A painting by Max Pechstein, which belonged to a Jewish doctor who had to flee the Nazis, is to be auctioned in Cologne. Why Germany finally needs a looted art…
Looted art dispute: decision on Picasso painting postponed
In the Bavarian state parliament, the Picasso painting “Madame Soler” was debated briefly and heatedly. Without a result. source site