The paintings seized by the Nazis, then the Communist government, may yet remain with the state

The panel finds Tate has legal title to a war-loot picture but agrees that the claimants should be compensated on ethical grounds

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

This will assist in the identification of looted artworks

Metropolitan Monet subject to claim

Does this mark a change of direction for initiative, which previously only recorded losses?

Christie’s and Sotheby’s to help with provenance research projects

In 1954 Knoedler sold picture stolen from Paul Rosenberg by Nazis

While the Kann descendants have solid evidence for their claim, the Wildenstein family are confident enough in their story to share their own documents with The Art Newspaper

The heir to the cosmetics fortune is creating his own museum and would like to see art returned to Holocaust victims, but how effective is he actually?

British and French authorities dismayed at disposals that they considered illegal

The Austrian Parliament decided that full restitution should be made to victims of the Nazis and to those who had been coerced into giving works after 1945 to the museums - but the advisory council has twice taken its own, negative, line

"Saved From Europe" commemorates the man who brought art condemned by the Nazis to the US and worked for the restitution of looted art

In the interests of future exhibitions, the New York Court of Appeals rules that Schieles on loan to Museum of Modern Art must be returned to the lender then a federal magistrate seizes one of pictures

An important test case for museums dealing with war loss cases.

The Van Gogh drawing and Hans von Marées painting were part of a large collection which was forcibly auctioned

A sheet of paper found in a second-hand book by The Art Newspaper details valuations of the drawings when sold by Colnaghi

Recent developments in the restitution of looted artworks

Christie’s, US Customs, a bankrupt dealer, hoards of lawyers, and much time and money played a part in this

Works acquired in a “suspicious manner” will begin to be returned at once

Disputed Degas to go to the Art Institute of Chicago

Restitution claims for the Lubomirski and Ossolinski collections are complicated by the history of Lviv’s occupiers

Critics pointed out that the AAMD has no enforcement provision for members who violate its guidelines, not even its own mediation process

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

Veteran’s reluctant admission of taking plunder clinches case

1829 Kipresnky painting was taken to Berlin in the 1940's

Stolen in 1945 from a Polish prince’s museum, it is now thought to be in Bavaria

The collection was stolen during Nazi occupation of France

A survey touching all the bases, including losses, recoveries, legal debates, and cultural restitution

A Foujita, a Picasso and a Gleizes revert to the descendants of the owners–but over 1000 works remain homeless