Ice Skating by Adam van Breen was acquired by Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command, and bequeathed to the city of Trier’s museum in 1987

Schultz, who died last month, was arrested in 2019 on suspicion he cheated customers

Committee led by Jonathan Fine of Vienna’s Weltmuseum may pave the way for new legislation

The researchers are investigating the origins of 200 artefacts from Cameroon at Munich’s Museum Fünf Kontinente

Claudia Roth says she will rethink Humboldt Forum and set up a central “green culture” desk in the country

Government museums body takes control of repatriated artefacts after ruler of Benin challenges new trust set up to unify Nigerian claimants

Michael Schultz was arrested in 2019 but died before he could be prosecuted

Though country was not a colonial power, major museums in Vienna have acquisitions of colonial goods

Hermann Gerlinger had been loaning his 1,000 works to museums, but will now sell them through Munich-based auction house Ketterer Kunst

New law will set up expert commission to sift through thousands of objects at the Royal Museum for Central Africa

Ethnological museum in the port city has one of Germany's largest collections of Benin treasures

Zurich museum's displays of the collection of arms dealer Emil Georg Bührle have prompted criticism and a national debate

The museum is “eager to work with the relevant parties in Nigeria” to restitute the sculpture

So far 25 institutions have contributed 8,000 entries; the plan is to expand it and translate it into several languages

A new publication and forthcoming exhibition explore Herlinde Koelbl’s chronicle of the extraordinary 30-year political career of Germany’s first woman chancellor

The women's and gay rights campaigner brings extensive political experience to a position that has gained in stature under the incumbent Monika Grütters

Proposals include eliminating statutes of limitation for claims, creating a central court for cases and strengthening the advisory commission

The two funerary reliefs and the head of a priest were exhibited at the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva in 2017

German health minister warns that by the end of the winter, everyone will be “vaccinated, recovered or dead”

An all-party parliamentary group headed by the MP for Streatham aims to “start a discussion and educate people”

The director of the Pitt Rivers Museum says the report is a step in the restitution process

Museum says ban protects the building and sculptures—but has attracted criticism for ostracising younger generation

Wolfgang Haney, who died in 2017, assembled 15,000 postcards, leaflets, photographs and more bearing witness to the persecution of Jewish people

Ehrhardt Bödecker’s family requested the removal after his “militaristic, anti-democratic and in some respects, radically right-wing and antisemitic” views became public

The 13 Mayan objects were handed back in a ceremony in Berlin today

“We cannot build for the future without making our best effort at healing the wounds of the past,” the museum’s director says

Analysis of the work—stolen in East Germany’s biggest art heist—suggests that it was painted by the Old Master rather than others in his studio

Fair organiser is working with police and Swiss cyber security authorities to identify perpetrators of malware attack on 20 October

The bequest from the estate of the German photographer Ulrike Crespo includes 90 works and will go on show in November.

Both foreign and domestic art galleries benefit from the discount