The New York museum paid the Hess family “fair market value” to keep Nude in its collection

City says drawing was sold under duress, probably to fund escape to US by couple persecuted by the Nazis

Paintings recovered by Monuments Men and entrusted to Bavaria were instead sold, in some cases to prominent Nazis

Paintings were confiscated by Fascist government then seized by German occupying forces

Munich Upper Regional Court sets hearing date for September, leaving collection in limbo for several more months

Painting by Bartholomeus van der Helst once belonged to famous Schloss Collection coveted by Hitler and Göring

Vienna institution keeps three works after lengthy negotiation

Exhibition aims to “contribute to transparency” as researchers investigate how much of the art was looted by the Nazis

David Toren has filed a petition in New York State Supreme Court asking the Berlin auction house Villa Grisebach to reveal the buyers of works sold there

“Jewel” in Wilhelm-Hack-Museum’s collection may go back to heir of Alfred Hess after settlement

Ronald Lauder says works sold by refugees to fund flight from Nazis should be treated the same as looted art<br>

The sculpture, which was probably removed from the Koh Ker temple complex during the country's civil war, is the last of its kind to leave a US public collection

La bergère rentrant des moutons, seized by Nazis in 1941, has been hanging in an Oklahoma university museum since 2000

Authorities confirmed the objects had been taken from national collection and fakes left in their place

Ancient artefacts and colonial-era art repatriated from Argentina and Spain

Gloves come off in fight to run international database of stolen works of art

Expressionist work confiscated for Third Reich’s ‘shaming exhibitions’ returns to Germany

162 works suspected to be Nazi loot, but just five have been identified as definite plunder

Heirs insist German-Jewish factory owner was forced to sell portrait by Gerrit Dou in 1933

Much-criticised taskforce hands over responsibility as frustration grows at slow progress

Legal battle resumes for the Victorious Youth, which is housed at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles

US foundation claims Castro regime seized paintings that Hitler failed to steal

1935 sale of the Guelph Treasure predates the Holocaust “by several years”, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said in US court papers

The heirs of the Viennese entertainer Fritz Grünbaum, who died in Dachau, go to court in New York to recover his art

The twists and turns of a mistaken provenance meant a work by Kirchner had entered the museum’s collection under the wrong title and date

Greta Moll’s heirs argue painting was “misappropriated” in 1947

Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of the goddess Diana was taken by the Nazis during the Second World War

Late 18th-century Vincenzo Chilone regatta scene once owned by John and Anna Jaffé is due to be sold at Christie’s

At handover, the French dealer and collector Christian Deydier says he hopes all the objects taken from ancient tombs will “return home and be united”

The institution will get to keep the brilliantly illuminated gospel pages in its collection after legal settlement