The German Chancellor also welcomed debate on colonial-era art at a ceremony in the Humboldt Forum

Two-day auction will include works by Picasso, Matisse, Egon Schiele, collected by Bernd Schultz over six decades

Works will be shown in a new home for contemporary art opening next year

Benin Dialogue Group announces three-year schedule for new Royal Museum to display looted objects now in European collections

After painstaking work, its restorer curates a display at Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie

The paintings restituted to family of Alfred Flechtheim carry top estimates of $20m each

Hartmut Dorgerloh says institution will discuss presentation of non-Western art “together with critical friends and the communities”

Artist Olu Oguibe accepts alternative location, saying work’s humane message is urgently needed

Burned storage depot housed 8,000 exhibits; museum fears “heavy damages”

Government waives charges after funding five-year, £100m refurbishment

The German capital once attracted talent from across the world with its cheap rents, but gentrification is making an exodus already seen in London and New York

Show at the Kunsthistorisches Museum unites more than three-quarters of the artist's paintings

The Palais Populaire will be a permanent exhibition space for the bank's 55,000 works

“It shouldn’t be entirely up to us,” says Daniel Birnbaum, the director of Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, which recently restituted a Kokoschka painting

Russia film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s giant installation based on 700 hours of film faces insurmountable bureaucratic hurdles

Survey at Martin-Gropius-Bau boasts a staggering 1,000 exhibits discovered over the past 20 years in Germany

Munich-based dealer claimed paintings he sent for cleaning had been ruined

Stringent cultural heritage laws and bureaucracy are making consignments much harder to find

Pop artist's fist institutional exhibition revisited 50 years on at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet

Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz and Kasper König are among more than 70 interviewees in the project, called Café Deutschland

The 1910 portrait of a marquis was sold by Alfred Flechtheim’s employee after the dealer fled Nazi Germany

City authorities in Wiesbaden say it posed a threat to security

Russia film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky teams up with Brian Eno, Marina Abramovic, Massive Attack for project called DAU

Country's stance contrasts that of neighbouring Russia, which still holds around a million items of war booty looted from Germany

Former artistic director says being blamed for museum’s financial woes was among “most shocking” moments of his career

“Women are particularly affected by this precarious situation,” study’s author says

Fund-raisers have so far raised €300,000 of €800,000 needed

The exhibition's manager, Annette Kulenkampff, welcomes prosecutor’s decision

Museum director Hilke Wagner seeks to address lingering prejudices with exhibition and events

“Management errors of the past” are responsible for troubles, statement says