The Museum Reinhard Ernst, opening this week in the city of Wiesbaden, houses works by Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Damien Hirst and Neo Rauch

The collector and textiles entrepreneur Carl Sachs sold the painting after fleeing to Switzerland from Nazi Germany in 1939

Paintings by Courbet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Gauguin are to be removed from display at Zurich’s Kunsthaus

As a “thank you” gesture, Italy is reciprocating with loans from Paestum and Naples

The portraits painted by Bartholomäus Zeitblom carry an estimate of £400,000-£600,000

The reduction, which comes into effect next year, meets long-standing demands from German dealers

The Centre Albert Anker in Ins, Switzerland, is set to open to visitors on 7 June with an exhibition on the artist's travels to Italy

The work, showing two of Kirchner’s fellow artists playing chess, was sold under duress by the Berlin dealer Victor Wallerstein after he fled to Italy from Nazi Germany

Ekner, who was appointed interim director general last year, has 25 years of museum experience in Sweden and New Zealand

More than 100 Ukrainian museum professionals, meeting in Berlin, pledge to rebuild a modern, inclusive cultural sector

The painting, purchased by the real estate magnate Bruno Stefanini in 1998, was once owned by a Jewish woman who fled Hitler’s Germany

Archive of the Avant-Garde in German city’s renovated Blockhaus hosts Egidio Marzona’s collection of paintings, drawings and vast documentary archive of letters, manuscripts, sketches, invitations and stickers

The shortlist of five for Art Fund's ₤120,000 award also includes the Craven Museum, Dundee Contemporary Arts, the National Portrait Gallery and the Manchester Museum

The inclusion of Otto Muehl, who was convicted of sexual abuses against minors, has triggered protests at the Vienna Actionism Museum, which opened in March

The price paid by a buyer from Hong Kong was at the lower end of the estimate range, but still an auction record for Austria

Police are appealing for information about two other paintings stolen in the same 2020 burglary

König says the new space, König Bergson, is one of the largest commercial galleries for contemporary art in Germany

Currently director of Bonn’s Kunstverein, Hellberg takes up her new post in October 2025

However arts organisations worldwide trail behind the corporate sector and academia, according to a study, often because of limited resources

Thousands have called for Israel’s pavilion to be cancelled, a proposed Palestinian exhibition was rejected, while Ukraine’s pavilion deals with its ongoing war

The haul includes works purportedly by Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and Natalia Goncharova

Cullinan, currently the director of the National Portrait Gallery, faces an array of challenges in rebuilding the oldest national museum in the world’s reputation

Kornfeld died last year, shortly before turning 100

Plus, a mid-career painting by African American artist Hughie Lee-Smith

While the architect, who has been accused of sexual misconduct, has been fired or stepped down from a number of contracts, other institutions continue to work with Adjaye Associates

The changes will allow Germany to better meet its commitments under the Washington Principles, the country's culture minister says

Painting in a stairwell and foyer at the German Hygiene Museum is one of the few early works to survive

Dix’s war painting The Trench, lost during the Second World War, is in focus at the opening

The artist and Grammy winner supported a 2021 petition by Palestinian artists titled “Letter Against Apartheid”

The auction house Im Kinsky estimates the price of the 1917 painting at between €30m and €50m