Tag: Looted
“We are looted every day” … Traders denounce the insecurity of the city center
“I no longer know how to do, what to do, I spend my time keeping watch in and in front of my shop and the employees are afraid, but it’s…
Crime: Post employee is said to have looted packages for months
crime Postal worker is said to have looted packages for months According to the police, the accused hoarded some of the opened packages in an empty post office storage room.…
Colonial looted art: Benin bronzes can go back to Nigeria
Looted Colonial Art Benin bronzes can go back to Nigeria Happy faces: Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Minister of Culture Lai Mohammed. Photo: Britta Pedersen/dpa © dpa-infocom GmbH With the…
Benin Bronzes: Declaration on Colonial Looted Goods from Germany and Nigeria
Benin bronzes Statement on Colonial Looted Goods from Germany and Nigeria Various sculptures from Nigeria in the “Africa” exhibition in the Linden Museum in Stuttgart. Photo: Christoph Schmidt/dpa © dpa-infocom…
Looted art: agreement on the return of Benin bronzes – culture
Just one day after an agreement was reached between Germany and Nigeria on the so-called Benin Bronzes, the Linden Museum in Stuttgart is expecting a distinguished visitor from the African…
The incredible story of gold bars looted from a French wreck and found in the United States
December 3, 1746. Returning from the Far East, the “Prince de Conty”, a ship of the French East India Company, was shipwrecked near Belle-Ile-en-Mer (Morbihan). The toll is heavy: of…
Looted art or not? Dispute over a Lenbach painting – Munich
The message is simple: the owner of a Lenbach painting depicting Thomas Mann’s future wife, Katia Pringsheim, as a child is donating the painting to the Thomas Mann House in…
Munich: Colonial looted art in the Five Continents Museum – Munich
During a research project, the Five Continents Museum in Munich identified around 50 items from its collection as possible colonial looted art. According to a preliminary assessment, they came from…
Why freight trains are now being looted in the USA – Economy
You only believe some things when you see them with your own eyes; and then you no longer believe those eyes because what you see there is so monstrous, so…
Looted art in the Berlin Museum of Asian Art? – Culture
from Jörg Haentzschel The New York prosecutor’s office doesn’t often deal with official trips by Berlin museum directors. But the trip that Marianne Yaldiz, then director of the Museum of…