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

The commission said the work's history touches four families who had been “oppressed, robbed, deported, driven to flee or murdered”

Collection of the lawyer and collector Armand Isaac Dorville was sold after his death in an estate sale that the state argues was not forced

The collection of 18th-century porcelain was previously exhibited in Dutch museums

The agreement overturns the Restitution Committee's 2013 rejection of the claim, which argued the painting was worth more to the museum than the heirs

Apple Tree II, once confused for Roses Under the Trees, was returned to the wrong family 20 years ago, leaving the heirs of its original owner facing huge obstacles to get it back

The decision on whether to return the painting, which hangs in Dusseldorf’s Kunstpalast, will be made by the city assembly in April

Museum launches an online catalogue of 485,000 objects while curators comb through wartime acquisitions and works from former colonies

In a unanimous decision, the government’s advisory commission says it is likely the work was sold under duress

Law change follows refusal by some foundations to restitute property lost due to Nazi persecution

Petition calls for more transparency in planned display of the collection of Emil Georg Bührle, who bought Nazi-looted art with a fortune built on weapons

A new book by Jonathan Petropoulos explores Bruno Lohse’s devotion to Hitler’s number two

The case centres on whether Germany’s taking of a trove of medieval church reliquaries from its own Jewish citizens was a violation of international law—potentially opening the door for other reparations

The government's treatment of claims for art plundered by Nazis has come under fire for placing interests of museums over "legal redress for injustice"

The Magdeburg masterpiece may have been burned at the end of hostilities—but some believe it might have been looted and survive

Alfred Hammerstein’s departure follows criticism of Dutch committee’s decisions

The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project will begin with a pilot scheme focusing on the Old Masters collection of Adolphe Schloss, which was seized by the Gestapo

The Golden Age work by Aelbert Cuyp was looted from Jacques Goudstikker and acquired by Hermann Göring

Ruling by Paris court of appeal sets an important precedent for pending restitution claim over 16 paintings in French museum collections

The 93-year-old heir Grete Unger Heinz recalls contemplating a Jacopo del Sellaio painting as a child in Vienna

Family of Gustav Arens also receive French government compensation for a Tintoretto painting and a Dutch landscape

The view of Dresden's Zwinger moat had been returned to the heirs of Max Emden and will now be offered for sale in London on 28 July

The solicitor general’s recent filing suggests the Nazis’ looting of Jewish collections in Germany was a domestic rather than international crime

Victoria Reed, the provenance curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has been sharing the history about a work from the collection each day on Twitter while the museum remains locked down

Hohenzollern family is seeking compensation for thousands of works and expropriated property

Last week’s decision to reject an appeal over the ownership of Picasso’s The Actor was a missed opportunity to clarify the limitations of the 2016 HEAR Act

Andrea della Robbia’s Mary Magdalene was acquired by Hermann Göring in 1941

Lostart.de is caught between the conflicting demands of claimants and the holders of disputed art

The German state museum agency has argued that it cannot be sued in American courts by heirs of Jewish dealers who sold the works during the Holocaust

Hire of French art historian Emmanuelle Polack suggests a more proactive stance on Nazi-era provenance research at Paris museum