Vienna museums sued for return of works held by collector murdered in Dachau

Falckenberg, one of Germany’s most important private art collectors, once said he was drawn to “outsiders and freaks"

Hilda Graetz sold 'Still Life With a Cup' to fund her new life in South Africa after her art dealer father died in a concentration camp

The experts were hired after a previous iteration of the show was deemed inadequate in addressing the dark legacy of Emil Georg Bührle, who made his fortune selling weapons to Nazi Germany

The new centre is to “include groups of victims who have so far received less attention,” the Bundestag says

The landscape was in the possession of the family of an American soldier who had served in post-war Germany

The painting, acquired by Augustus III, hung in a Soviet general’s home after the war

Three works will be going up for auction at Christie's New York—but with an unusual caveat

With a new show opening at the Serpentine, the German artist explains how the past continues to inform his work

A pilot project will begin operating in February 2024

The French-born artist’s retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery captures her diverse influences

From Old Master portraits and grainy photographs to sculptures on chairs and naked performances

Wide-ranging nationwide survey will catalogue artefacts held by monasteries and convents that were collected by missionaries in Africa, Asia and South America

He replaced a painting by Franz von Stuck with a forgery and sold the original

Claudia Roth says the commission’s current mandate is “inadequate” and “we are not living up to our responsibilities"

The advisory commission said it sees the current framework as “unsatisfactory” and “in need of an urgent overhaul”

The lawyer and activist may play a key role in negotiating the return of Benin bronzes

The spear, digging stick, cudgel and net were brought home by German missionaries nearly 200 years ago

The 54-year-old woman used ticket-sale tricks at the Fondation Beyeler near Basel to fund luxury cars and holidays

A directive that aims to create a single value-added tax system will enable member countries to set their own reduced rates internally

The trove stolen from the Kelten Römer Museum near Munich was the biggest Celtic gold find of the 20th century

The descendants of the €200m collection's Jewish former owners had appealed a 2022 regional court ruling

A sculpture by Michelangelo Pistoletto was destroyed by fire in Naples on Wednesday

Visitors who accessed text via QR codes saw collector Emil Georg Bührle described as “a Nazi sympathiser, authoritarian militarist, at the very least a war profiteer and probably a war criminal”

After taking guidance from the community's traditional elders and religious leaders, the Oxford museum presented the "symbolic gift" on the weekend

The director of Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie will succeed Klaus Albrecht Schröder from 2025

The scientific director of the Weltmuseum in Vienna will take charge of one of Europe’s most important museum organisations in 2025

The painting was pulled from a sale in June following reports it was sold under duress in 1936 by Walter Blank, who died in Spain while fleeing Nazi Germany

The fragment, plundered in the 1980s or 1990s, was seized in a criminal case in Geneva

Currently director of the Weltmuseum in Vienna, Fine succeeds Sabine Haag in 2025