Second World War
Germany’s first federal minister of culture since World War II resigns
The deputy editorship of Die Zeit newspaper and a better pension prove too tempting for Michael Naumann
Italian embassy in London pursues claim to Benevento missal
The Art Newspaper has tracked down further details of what happened to the twelfth-century manuscript during World War II
The World Jewish Congress’s Commission for Art Recovery restitutes works from museums in Hanover and Leipzig
Does this mark a change of direction for initiative, which previously only recorded losses?
Wildenstein reveal key documents on alleged war loot
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
How should billionaire Ronald Lauder be understood; philanthropist, restitution advocate, leader or naive temporiser?
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?
400,000 pieces of Nazi silver loot sold by US in 1950
British and French authorities dismayed at disposals that they considered illegal
Restitution battles rage from Seattle to Paris to Budapest to New Zealand
Matisse Odalisque restored to the Rosenberg family
Art in the media: History as a developing process
Lodz ghetto photos found in Vienna; Van Dyck reassessed; Tracey Emin in profile
MoMA reached settlement agreement with Malevich heirs
The works in question were smuggled out of Germany during the Nazi regime for safe-keeping
Books: a selection of the Art Institute of Chicago's holdings
Painting, design, and decorative arts from Colonial times until the Second World War
Tate acknowledges 'View of Hampton Court Palace' as Nazi war loot, expected to compensate family
An important test case for museums dealing with war loss cases.
Books: Wyndham Lewis and the art of modern war
This collection positions Lewis as an “anti-war war artist”
Restitution round-up: France, Austria, Italy, and Germany
Recent developments in the restitution of looted artworks
Dia Center shows Beuys taking notes on Leonardo
Beuys drawings based on the Renaissance master’s famous Codices Madrid show revolutionary artist experimenting with the ideas of another
Picasso's reaction to the Second World War
“Picasso and the War Years 1937-45”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 5 February-9 May
Much piety and hot air at Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets
No binding agreements were reached and little effect on restitution is expected
Austria makes legal amends by passing a bill ensuring restitution
Works acquired in a “suspicious manner” will begin to be returned at once
Jewish family loses out to Louvre over WWII spoliation case
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
The end of World War II for Berlin’s paintings: The Bode and the Dahlem come together in harmony at the Gemäldegalerie
The State Paintings Collection has opened in Berlin’s Kulturforum
Anatomy of plunder: Maurice Tempelsman finds himself at the centre of a scandal over illegally excavated antiquities
Jackie’s companion targeted for buying $1 million of hot Greek body parts
Ronald Lauder returns Nazi loot
1829 Kipresnky painting was taken to Berlin in the 1940's
US museums deny holding war loot
Museum directors summoned before the House of Representatives
US Customs seize a painting from a looted collection
The collection was stolen during Nazi occupation of France
Why did leading US museum director keep mum over paintings stolen from Kassel?
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts and its former director, Alan Shestack are castigated in the press
Weimar gets a painting back as Sotheby’s returns stolen Tischbein portrait
“A very happy occasion” as painting looted by American soldiers returns home
Twenty-five Hermitage “treasures” gained as war loot still unclaimed
Watercolours and drawings seized by the Red Army in a Berlin bunker in 1945 have been on show in the Hermitage earlier this year for the first time
Russian Parliament nationalises art taken from Germany
But negotiations continue between Chancellor Kohl and President Yeltsin
Works of art stolen from Austrian Jews by the Nazis sell out and realise $14 million, five times the estimated total
Auction was an expression of piety, not of the art market
Texas war booty charge thrown out of court
Technicality spares the sellers of the Quedlinburg treasure
A symbol of the city rises from the rubble as Dresden's Frauenkirche is reconstructed
The crypt of the baroque Frauenkirche was reopened last month, with an altar by Anish Kapoor