Tag: Nazi looted art
Germany’s handling of Nazi-looted art: Hardly any returns – it remains a scandal – Culture
Germany’s unwillingness to commit to comprehensive restitution of art stolen by the Nazis is becoming increasingly scandalous. Stuart Eizenstat, 80, is a polite man and one of Washington’s most experienced…
Germany’s handling of Nazi-looted art remains a scandal. – Culture
Germany’s unwillingness to commit to comprehensive restitution of art stolen by the Nazis is becoming increasingly scandalous. Stuart Eizenstat, 80, is a polite man and one of Washington’s most experienced…
Uproar over the Bührle Collection: Advisory board of the Kunsthaus Zurich resigns – Culture
The art collection of the German-Swiss arms industrialist Emil Bührle is once again putting the Kunsthaus in Zurich in distress. The museum, under its new director Ann Demeester, actually wanted…
Nazi-looted art: twenty years of standstill
Will the “Advisory Commission” for the restitution of Nazi-looted art finally be reformed? source site
Database for Nazi looted goods: Collector fails with action to delete before Federal Court of Justice
Status: 07/21/2023 3:25 p.m An art collector wanted to have the entry of one of his paintings deleted from a database for Nazi-looted art. He complained through the instances up…
BGH ruling on Nazi-looted art: Collector must accept entry in Lost Art – Kultur
While Germany’s public museums are obliged to elucidate the origin of Nazi-looted art and to return these works to the heirs of the previous owners – even if they often…
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…
Kandinsky “The Colorful Life” -Restitution – Culture
“The Colorful Life”, a major work by Wassily Kandinsky, hangs in Munich’s Lenbachhaus. Now it could be returned. A major work by Wassily Kandinsky, “The Colorful Life” from 1907, is…
Memorial project on Jewish fates – Munich
They have supported artists, shaped the reputation of German museums and enriched cultural life through their activities: art collectors, patrons and collecting citizens of Jewish origin. Many of them became…