Antonin Stanek’s sudden firing of National Gallery director Jiri Fajt sparked international protests and a petition

Laboratory tests revealed "sensational" discovery that the figure in Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window was overpainted decades after the artist’s death

Software entrepreneur Markus Hannebauer opens Fluentum to the public with Dutch artist Guido van der Werve

“Safety comes first,” the building’s manager says

Anti-immigration party AfD is using provocative 19th-century work on its posters for the upcoming European elections

Sotheby's assisted the return of the books, including 11 medieval manuscripts, which were found in Belgium

Regulation is designed to protect against smuggling and cut off a source of terrorist financing

Australia is pursuing further repatriations from Germany, ambassador says

Show at the Hamburger Bahnhof explores how the German artist hid behind Hitler's "degenerate" label

On the same day, the nearby Neues Museum Weimar will open a new permanent exhibition on early Modernism

But the Sackler Staircase in the museum will keep its name

Zentrum für politische Schönheit sees artistic freedom under attack

Hasso Plattner also plans to put his Impressionist works on permanent display in his Barberini Museum

Painting acquired for Oslo's National Gallery was bought at auction from heirs of Jewish dealer persecuted by the Nazis

The entrance building to Museum Island is the German capital’s answer to the Louvre Pyramid

German advisory commission on Nazi-looted art says paintings in government collection should be restituted to the descendants of Max James Emden

The exhibition opening in April at the Museum of Fine Arts is billed as the artist’s biggest-ever solo show in Germany

The UK architect talks about working in China and the decline of its "funny-shaped" buildings

Dutch Square is one of many paintings the Bavarian state returned to the families of the looters instead of the original Jewish owners after the war

Online-only auctions may focus on the lower end of the market, but they are key to expanding clientele. We survey ten auction houses to find out their strategy

Enwezor inspired a global, inclusive view of art history

Restitution discussions with descendants of Jewish owner are underway

Joint declaration is “a statement of historical responsibility,” says Culture Minister Monika Grütters

Rijksmuseum opens talks with Sri Lanka, ethnology museums publish guidelines

Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz confronts the legacy of its controversial first director, cousin of Hildebrand Gurlitt

Dutch Old Masters in the retailer’s corporate collection are to be sold at Sotheby’s

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a totemic Klansman to the art of colonial Latin America

New exhibition presents documents that lay the foundations for reconstruction of Aleppo and other sites ruined by civil war

Despite the failure of five of the dictator-to-be’s watercolours to sell at auction last month, a market for his works—both real and forged—remains

Exhibition about the Venetian Renaissance at Frankfurt’s Städel Museum also includes works by Giovanni Bellini and Jacopo Tintoretto