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

Two paintings by Signac and one by Pissarro are expected to fetch as much as £20m

Tel Aviv Museum of Art reveals surprising provenance of 19th-century work by Jozef Israëls, which will be restituted to Jewish owner’s heirs in October

New exhibition highlights works from the museum's Gilbert Collection that have unclear provenance during the Nazi era

Leo Bendel was killed at Buchenwald three years after he sold the painting by Carl Spitzweg to fund his escape from Nazi Germany

Gari Melchers's painting of a winter landscape, which was in the Arkell Museum in the state of New York, belonged to the media mogul Rudolf Mosse

For first time, advisory team stipulates that work must not be sold for ten years in case evidence emerges that contradicts its ruling

The Dutch still-life heads back to the Florence museum after bold campaign by director

The case 'shouldn't be heard in a US court', argues the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Study reveals that up to 8% of museum acquisitions were looted from private citizens

Grandchildren of art dealer René Gimpel accuse French culture ministry of blocking restitution of works hanging in state museums

Restitutions Committee recommends return of two Golden Age works to heirs of Jacob Lierens

Norton Simon Museum can keep two Cranach masterpieces