The portrait of the Duke of Saxony, attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop, will be auctioned by Christie’s in New York in January 2025

The three curators, Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović, were selected by a seven-member committee to lead the 2027 edition, which marks the event’s 50th anniversary

The former director of Cologne’s Museum Ludwig “shaped the art discourse of the last five decades like no other", the museum says

US-based Manton Foundation's gift will establish a research facility and "intellectual hub" at Somerset House

The sketchbook will be shown in all three cities to mark what would be the artist's 250th birthday

Fischer, who resigned after a thefts scandal at the British Museum, has been announced as the founding director of the new institution, which is expected to open in 2026

The prize rewards a space for children that “will cement museums as places they belong and feel welcome as they grow up, regardless of their background”

Ackermann is to take up the post in June 2025 after nine years managing Dresden’s state art collections

The space, once used by the likes of Karl Marx, is finally available for all visitors to the London institution to see

The work, to be auctioned at Sotheby’s today, was one of more than 2,500 held as collateral and sold, shortly before the Nazi invasion, by the Dutch bank Lisser & Rosenkranz

The report by Raphael Gross calls for more research and details how Jewish owners are omitted from the published provenance

Albert Stern, the former owner, sold the painting “out of necessity” in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, the Dutch Restitutions Committee says

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