Nazi loot
Swiss government approves panel to assess claims for art acquired in Nazi and colonial eras
New panel is to find “fair and just solutions” for disputed works in museums
Kunsthaus Zurich advisers quit in conflict over new Bührle exhibition
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
Dutch dealer returns Weenix landscape stolen in the Second World War to Dresden museum
The painting, acquired by Augustus III, hung in a Soviet general’s home after the war
Egon Schiele works recently restituted to Holocaust victim's heirs head to auction
Christie’s will offer six of the seven pieces by Schiele that were restituted to heirs of Fritz Grünbaum last month during its November sales in New York
US authorities return seven Schiele works to heirs of cabaret performer murdered by the Nazis
The seven drawings, seized from public and private collections throughout the US, are collectively valued at nearly $10m
German culture minister promises new powers for Nazi-looted art panel
Claudia Roth says the commission’s current mandate is “inadequate” and “we are not living up to our responsibilities"
Allegedly Nazi-looted Egon Schiele works valued at nearly $4m are seized at US museums
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office ordered the seizure of works at the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museums and Allen Memorial Art Museum
German Nazi-looted art panel calls for more powers and a new law
The advisory commission said it sees the current framework as “unsatisfactory” and “in need of an urgent overhaul”
Yet again, a US court dismisses Nazi-era Guelph Treasure art lawsuit
The descendants of the €200m collection's Jewish former owners had appealed a 2022 regional court ruling
Hackers attack Nazi-linked collection exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich
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”
Lempertz to sell Max Pechstein self-portrait following settlement with Jewish doctor's heirs
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
German restitution commission recommends Bavarian bank return Kandinsky painting to heirs of former Jewish owners
Kandinsky’s "A Colorful Life" (1907), which had belonged to collectors Emanuel and Hedwig Lewenstein, was sold in a 1940 Amsterdam auction
MFA Boston settles ownership dispute with Jewish dealers’ heirs over a painting Hitler wanted for his Führermuseum
"Customers Conversing in a Tavern" (1671) by Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen van Ostade is up on display after a six years of research and negotiations
German city restitutes a Renoir to the heirs of a Jewish banker and buys it back
View of the Sea from Haut Cagnes will in future be displayed with information about its former owner, Jakob Goldschmidt
France's long-awaited restitution policy is finally here
Guidelines for returning objects looted from former colonies and during the Nazi period are laid out in a report commissioned by Emmanuel Macron and written by former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez
Dusseldorf settles with Jewish dealer’s heirs on portrait that hung in mayor's office
Wilhelm von Schadow’s painting 'The Artist’s Children' was once owned by Max Stern, who fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s
Appeals court judges hear latest argument in Nazi-era Guelph Treasure restitution claim
Heirs of the dealers who sold the collection of medieval artefacts to the Prussian government claim their case can be heard in US court because the dealers were not German citizens at the time of the sale
Gauguin, Renoir and Cézanne works restituted by Musée d'Orsay head to auction at Sotheby's
Four works recently returned to heirs of the influential French dealer Ambroise Vollard will go under the hammer in New York next month
Has New York's law aimed at identifying Nazi-looted art in museums worked?
Recent legislation requires institutions to label works they display that was stolen by the Nazis, but some are still unwilling to publish their provenance research
Courbet painting—seized by the Nazis and owned by a reverend—to be returned to its original owners
The forest landscape, La Ronde Enfantine, will be returned by the Fitzwilliam Museum, UK, to the heirs of Robert Bing
Musée D'Orsay ordered by Paris court to return four masterpieces by Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin stolen during Second World War
The works were owned by influential French dealer Ambroise Vollard and will be returned to his heirs
Art from persecuted Jewish dealer draws scrutiny at National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
Findings about the provenance of two Old Master drawings in the museum’s collection may test the pro-restitution stance recently adopted at US national institutions
The curious case of Madonna and the missing Old Master
Mayor of Amiens in France asks pop star to loan work believed to be by Jérôme-Martin Langlois, spotted in a photograph of her home
Restituted Kandinsky painting lost in the Holocaust could sell for $45m
The painting, which was the subject of a decade-long provenance dispute, will go up for sale at Sotheby’s London in March
French court orders Christie's to restitute a Nazi-looted painting sold in London
As the panel was looted in Paris, the magistrates claimed jurisdiction of the French courts over the High Court in London
Christie's marks 25 years of the Washington Principles on Nazi-confiscated art
Auction house kicked off its year-long restitution programme in Paris last week which aims to educate collectors and buyers
Was Van Gogh's olive grove landscape another Nazi-era 'forced sale'?
We uncover the tangled tale of the painting controversially sold off by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 and now in an Athens museum
Jewish collectors’ heirs sue the Guggenheim for return of Blue Period Picasso
The heirs of Karl and Rosi Adler claim “Woman Ironing (La repasseuse)” (1904) was sold under duress by the fleeing couple and are seeking its return—or as much as $200m in compensation
The Van Gogh Sunflowers lawsuit: the full story behind the Nazi-loot claim to Tokyo’s $250m painting
Plus, Singapore’s art hub ambitions and Grace Lau's project for Chinese New Year
Van Gogh's Tokyo Sunflowers: Was it a Nazi forced sale? And is the painting now worth $250m?
Bought for a Japanese museum in 1987, the masterpiece has just been claimed by the heirs of a Jewish Berlin banker