Second World War
Can past nuclear explosions help detect forgeries?
The inventors of a new technique for dating paintings say it can prove whether a work was made before or after 1945
Two new Holocaust memorials for Berlin
Parliament approves final budgets for monuments to homosexuals and Roma and Sinti people murdered by the Nazis
MoMA and Guggenheim file joint appeal against restitution effort
They dispute claims made by Julius Schoeps on Picassos in their collection
Amsterdam sale concludes Goudstikker series
Old masters, recovered as a result of one of the world’s largest Nazi restitution claims, net $20m
Successful Amsterdam sale concludes the series of Goudstikker auctions
Old masters, recovered as a result of one of the world’s largest Nazi restitution claims, net $20m
Norton Simon Museum of Art and Goudstikker heiress to go to court over fight for Cranachs
Marei von Saher claims they are Nazi loot, while Norton Simon believes it has legal title to the paintings
The German museum paintings secretly sold by the British government in 1946
Nearly 80 pictures, including works by Cranach and Kauffmann, were seized from the German embassy in London
Nazi crime revelations raise questions about the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
The late collector Heini Thyssen forced himself to forget his family’s Nazi involvement, but so did the countries that vied for his and his father’s pictures in the 1980s. This well documented book gives the details
Revealed: six paintings in Maritime Museum were seized by British troops from Nazi Germany
Last month we reported that a Nazi picture in the London gallery was taken by British soldiers at the end of World War II. We have now discovered that other works of art were also removed
Growing evidence that Göring seized National Gallery’s Cranach from its pre-war owner
We uncover the remarkable story of how a US war reporter governed Hitler’s mountain retreat for a day and took control of Reichsmarschall Göring’s collection of stolen art
Auschwitz survivor wants her art back from concentration camp
Roma portraits were made by Jewish prisoner on the orders of Dr Josef Mengele
Holocaust restitution: Lack of funding and cooperation have resulted in failure and injustice
A short history of nazi loot restitution efforts
Revealed: National Gallery’s Cranach is war loot
The painting was taken from Germany at the end of World War II
The Bode Museum reborn in Berlin
The vast collection of sculptural works removed on the outbreak of World War II are now back on view in the newly-restored building
Restitution pledge by US museums remains unfulfilled six years on
Results of survey lay bare how the US fell short
France promised Mona Lisa to Mussolini to avert war: The untold story of Leonardo's 1939 Milan retrospective
King George VI loaned 19 of his best Leonardo drawings to Milan for the most important exhibition on the artist ever held
Books: The view from eastern Europe on restitution
These essays emanate from a series of Polish conferences
Nazi Loot Picasso case can proceed in California
Marilynn Alsdorf had hoped the case would be thrown out of court
War provenance art: a growing source of supply in the market
Christie’s follows Sotheby’s and appoints a director of restitution
Ukraine returns Koenigs’ drawings
But the 139 works go to Dutch State, not collector’s heirs
The US finally unveils its Second World War memorial
It has taken almost 60 years to commemorate the 400,000 American soldiers who died in the conflict
Incoming Russian minister dismisses German restitution claims
Alexander Sokolov does not seem interested in returning looted art
Russian Minister on looted Baldin collection: “This collection should be returned and we will return it”
A legal loophole may enable the restitution to Germany of a collection taken to the USSR by a Soviet army officer in 1945
Maria Altmann's Holocaust restitution case against Austria will be heard by the US Supreme Court
An American citizen is claiming six Klimts from the Nationalgalerie in Vienna alleged to have been seized from her uncle by the Nazis and then unlawfully retained by Austria after the war
The Springfield Museum sues Knoedler over spoliated Bassano
Knoedler's poor provenance research led to the return of a $3 million painting to Italy
Weapons of mass dissemination: The propaganda of war on show at the Wolfsonian
Florida International University presents a brilliantly curated tour of the First and Second World Wars
How Paul Klee reached of fulfilment at the close of his career: Exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler
Works shown in Basel reflect how he made peace with the approach of death
Dutch government yields Nazi-looted 'NK collection'
Thousands of works in secret collection are now being claimed
World War II still rippling in Austria: Restitution fears hamper the Klimt show, and a flak tower becomes a Kunsthalle
Is this the predicted 'chilling effect' on international loans?