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‘Slap in the face’: Poland passes law effectively blocking Holocaust-era art restitutions
Lawyers and collectors weigh in on new rule that sets a 30-year limit on claims to property that was stolen by Nazis and Communist leaders
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Hidden daily lives of Hasidic Jews in Jerusalem are captured in marvellous book of photographs
Photographer was given privileged access to document scenes and to make portraits among the people of this conservative group
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Catalogue of Colmar Treasure conjures up picture of 14th-century bourgeois Jewish life in France
Hoard of objects loaned by Paris's Musée de Cluny to the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells a complex tale
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Ashmolean to return silver salt cellar to Jewish collector’s heirs
The UK Spoliation Advisory Panel concluded that the piece was the subject of a forced sale in the 1930s
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Israel steps up hunt for Nazi-looted art
Museums under pressure to research collections for Holocaust victims’ assets
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From shtetl to spectacle at the Russian Jewish Museum and Centre of Tolerance
Constructivist-style bus garage transformed into high-tech Jewish museum in Moscow
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Speech by Nir Barkat: Anselm Kiefer on Jerusalem and the Kabbalah
“What has been divided can be brought back together again—not in the form of a reunification, but in a way that we cannot yet define”
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Munich pushes provenance research concerning possible Nazi looting
The project, led by Dr Vanessa-Maria Voigt and Dr Horst Kessler, came about by a chance find in a desk...
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Minneapolis hands Léger to collector’s family
The painting was stolen from its Jewish owner during the Nazi occupation of France
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Dresden takes major provenance research project to Russia
Strives to break restitution “logjam”
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Dresden state museums expand provenance research — all the way to Russia
Strives to break restitution “logjam”
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Leopold Museum in Vienna accused over Nazi-looted art
Institution says restitution laws don’t apply as it is a private gallery
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Conservation project focuses on Jewish heritage sites and underwater archaeology
Israel and India join forces
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Auschwitz survivor wants her art back from concentration camp
Roma portraits were made by Jewish prisoner on the orders of Dr Josef Mengele
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Holocaust restitution: Lack of funding and cooperation have resulted in failure and injustice
A short history of nazi loot restitution efforts
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Austria must return five Nazi-looted Klimt paintings to the heirs of the Jewish collector Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer
“Morally, this is a gain for Austria” not a loss, says Maria Altmann
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$6.5 million settlement to heir for stolen Picasso
Chicago collector agrees to pay claimant to gain title to the work
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A portrait, person by person, item by item, of a society wiped out
This important book gives a full documentation for the Jewish art collectors of Vienna whose goods and lives were targeted by the Nazis
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Some progress has been made in restitution of Klimt paintings, but much more needs to be done
Although successful restitutions have been achieved through focused research in individual museums, numerous cases in federal and provincial museums still need to be solved
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Austrian court orders seizure of Nazi-looted Schiele
Heirs will have to sue for the painting, which is currently being held at Dorotheum
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Test case for restitution in Hungarian museums as claim on 11 paintings proceeds to appeal
The paintings seized by the Nazis, then the Communist government, may yet remain with the state
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Who should own Nazi-era assets in Jewish museums?
Museums in the US and Israel contain Judaica from pre-World War II European Jewish communities, redistributed by the Allies who thought this the best solution for material taken from people and institutions that no longer existed
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“The Jewish people should be heirs to heirless art” says Knesset member, as plans are made to return Nazi-loot to rightful owners
Christie’s and Sotheby’s to help with provenance research projects
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Much piety and hot air at Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets
No binding agreements were reached and little effect on restitution is expected
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Austria makes legal amends by passing a bill ensuring restitution
Works acquired in a “suspicious manner” will begin to be returned at once
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Jewish family loses out to Louvre over WWII spoliation case
After an emergency ruling, the Louvre retains five Italian paintings that were salvaged after the war and the aggrieved Gentili family must now await appeal. Meanwhile, the Musée national d’art moderne has approved the return of more works
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Probing provenance: The importance of due diligence and insurance for defective title
The recent, widely publicised dispute over the provenance of two paintings by Egon Schiele, withdrawn last year from a loan exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on the grounds of contested ownership, offered a vivid illustration of the problems facing museums and private collectors who may find themselves having to prove good title to their possessions
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An interim report comes from "Spoils of War" symposium
A survey touching all the bases: losses, recoveries, legal debates, cultural restitution
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Phillips moves into Judaica sales in New York
A difficult market now centred on Israel and Amsterdam
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Christie’s takes on sale of Jewish loot
900 works of art looted from Vienna’s Jewish community and stored in a monastery since 1955 to be sold on its behalf - It may be a PR nightmare for the auctioneers
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Walter Goetz, cartoonist, collector and friend of The Art Newspaper dies
Contributor to Vogue, Harpers and Punch amongst others