New panel is to find “fair and just solutions” for disputed works in museums

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

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

The seven drawings, seized from public and private collections throughout the US, are collectively valued at nearly $10m

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

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office ordered the seizure of works at the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museums and Allen Memorial Art Museum

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

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

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”

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

Kandinsky’s "A Colorful Life" (1907), which had belonged to collectors Emanuel and Hedwig Lewenstein, was sold in a 1940 Amsterdam auction

"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

View of the Sea from Haut Cagnes will in future be displayed with information about its former owner, Jakob Goldschmidt

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

Wilhelm von Schadow’s painting 'The Artist’s Children' was once owned by Max Stern, who fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s

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

Four works recently returned to heirs of the influential French dealer Ambroise Vollard will go under the hammer in New York next month

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

The forest landscape, La Ronde Enfantine, will be returned by the Fitzwilliam Museum, UK, to the heirs of Robert Bing

The works were owned by influential French dealer Ambroise Vollard and will be returned to his heirs

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

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

The painting, which was the subject of a decade-long provenance dispute, will go up for sale at Sotheby’s London in March

As the panel was looted in Paris, the magistrates claimed jurisdiction of the French courts over the High Court in London

Auction house kicked off its year-long restitution programme in Paris last week which aims to educate collectors and buyers

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

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

Plus, Singapore’s art hub ambitions and Grace Lau's project for Chinese New Year

Bought for a Japanese museum in 1987, the masterpiece has just been claimed by the heirs of a Jewish Berlin banker