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

The restitution question was hardly mentioned, but it tautened everyone’s nerves

"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

The paintings are claimed to have been stolen from their rightful owners during the Nazi annexation of Austria

The council on looted art has postponed its decision on whether to return five paintings in the Oesterreiches Galerie to the granddaughter of Alma Mahler-Werfel

Constitutional court decides in favour of nationalists’ bill

The penalty of lying to customs

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 Monet returned; a Bonnard, Léger and Matisse still claimed

Recent developments in the restitution of looted artworks

Curator voluntarily collaborates with Italy in accordance with museum’s policy

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

No binding agreements were reached and little effect on restitution is expected

Weimar, Cultural Capital of 1999, negotiates over its cultural treasures

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

After an emergency ruling, the Louvre retains five Italian paintings that were salvaged after the war and the aggrieved Gentili family must now await appeal. Meanwhile, the Musée national d’art moderne has approved the return of more works

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

The recent, widely publicised dispute over the provenance of two paintings by Egon Schiele, withdrawn last year from a loan exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on the grounds of contested ownership, offered a vivid illustration of the problems facing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

A relation of the Polish painter Tadeusz Pruszkowski, who died in 1942, has asked Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, to hand over seven Polish paintings and four tapestries, but the Jesuit Institution says the objects properly belong to it

Veteran’s reluctant admission of taking plunder clinches case

Montreal museum maintains they bought the Vasari in good faith

Jackie’s companion targeted for buying $1 million of hot Greek body parts

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