NewsMuseums
Mondrian’s heirs file US suit to recover four paintings worth $200m from a German museum
The complaint also demands compensation for four further works by Mondrian no longer at the Krefeld museum
NewsDiscoveries
Sculpture by Arno Breker—one of Hitler’s favourite artists—found buried in Berlin museum garden
Missing for 75 years, the large marble head, one of the artist's best-known works, was uncovered by chance during construction work at Kunsthaus Dahlem
Featurecoronavirus
Significant art emerged from traumas of the past—will the pandemic prove different?
As the coronavirus crisis stretches on, we look at how artists have captured confinement in recent history and what is being done now
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Executed by the Nazis: the story of Vincent van Gogh’s brave great-nephew
This month the Van Gogh family pays tribute to Theodoor, the 24-year-old student who faced a firing squad in 1945
NewsAuctions
First live auction in Germany after lockdown features painting bought for Hitler
Neumeister in Munich will today host a live auction for a maximum audience of 20
NewsPublic art
Carousel in Frankfurt to recall the Kindertransport that saved thousands of children from the Nazis
Yael Bartana's public sculpture commemorates those who were shipped out before the Second World War
NewsAcquisitions
Hitler in Hell: German Historical Museum acquires George Grosz painting
Painted while Grosz was living in exile, the work has remained in the family since 1944
NewsRestitution
Three Nazi-looted works bought by Gurlitt return to Jewish collector’s heirs
Two paintings by Jean-Louis Forain were discovered in Cornelius Gurlitt’s trove; the third work, by Constantin Guys, was restituted by another family member
NewsRestitution
Berlin restitutes painting to heirs of 'degenerate' artist for the first time
A portrayal of Lot by Hans Baldung Grien was sold to the Gemäldegalerie in 1937 by Hans Purrmann
NewsRestitution
How a Nazi-looted painting entered an Israeli museum
Tel Aviv Museum of Art reveals surprising provenance of 19th-century work by Jozef Israëls, which will be restituted to Jewish owner’s heirs in October
NewsCollectors
Collector Egidio Marzona buys eastern German castle to host design academy
The property was once home to Paul Schultze-Naumburg, a leading proponent of Nazi cultural policy
NewsRestitution
Bern museum sells $4m Manet painting from Gurlitt art hoard
National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo agrees to buy the painting, Ships at Sea in Stormy Weather
NewsProvenance research
'An invaluable resource' for provenance research: German pre-1945 auction catalogues are published online
The database includes 9,000 catalogues from more than 390 auction houses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh and Germany: Frankfurt mounts best show on the artist in recent years
Städel Museum tells the story of Germany's love affair with the painter, which ended in tragedy with Hitler’s rise to power
NewsControversies
Nazi design exhibition at Dutch museum braces for protests
The show called Design of the Third Reich features the Volkswagen Beetle and Riefenstahl’s films
ArchiveExhibitions
Germany’s Nazi past is evoked in Anselm Kiefer’s first retrospective in the UK
Dealing with the traumatic experience of growing up in a nation rising from the ruins of the Third Reich has been an important theme in the artist's work
ArchiveAnselm Kiefer
Book Review: A largely visual tour of Anselm Kiefer’s enormous studios and working methods
More than 300 illustrations explain how the German artist’s studio spaces have played a fundamental role in shaping his vision, work and philosophy
ArchiveJoseph Beuys
The scholarly battle over Beuys
Let’s admit it: without the artist to explain and animate his work, much of it is incomprehensible
ArchiveLiechtenstein
Lichtenstein's is the greatest royal collection after Britain’s—and is still growing
Prince Hans-Adam II may be spending more than any other in the world
ArchiveBooks
Books: How America took on the propaganda war in occupied Germany
A study of US arts policy and the ideology of denazification in post-war Germany
ArchiveProvenance research
Dresden takes major provenance research project to Russia
Strives to break restitution “logjam”
ArchiveSecond World War
Israel builds first monument to LGBTQ holocaust victims
Work is expected to start next month
ArchiveProvenance research
Dresden to spend €15m and employ 65 researchers on biggest provenance study ever undertaken
1 million objects will be examined and recorded over 10 years
ArchiveBooks
Books: Anselm Kiefer's engagement with the poetry of Paul Celan
“I myself would like to be a poet”
ArchiveLooted art
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
ArchiveRestitution
Germans call for return of paintings in the National Maritime Museum seized by British troops
The London museum has turned down two previous requests for restitution
ArchiveLooted art
The US Army’s hidden collection of Nazi art
Around 450 paintings made by artists working for the Third Reich are now in Washington, DC. They are unlikely to be returned to Germany
ArchiveLooted art
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
ArchiveNews
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
ArchiveRestitution
Auschwitz survivor wants her art back from concentration camp
Roma portraits were made by Jewish prisoner on the orders of Dr Josef Mengele
ArchiveLooted art
Revealed: National Gallery’s Cranach is war loot
The painting was taken from Germany at the end of World War II
ArchivePablo Picasso
Nazi Loot Picasso case can proceed in California
Marilynn Alsdorf had hoped the case would be thrown out of court
ArchiveExhibitions
Pompidou exhibits Otto Dix's inter-war drawings
German realism takes over Paris
ArchiveExhibitions
Posters of the Spanish Civil War at the Wolfsonian
The Art Deco war comes to Florida International University
ArchiveNazi Germany
Solid gold, fake Celtic cauldron found in lake
If deemed a Nazi object, it belongs to the Bavarian State
ArchiveRestitution
British Museum Old Master drawings subject to restitution claim
Four drawings are being claimed by the heir of a Nazism victim
ArchiveBooks
Books: Latest assessment of Anselm Kiefer proves to be a book without a spine
An uncritical, adoring treatment of the artist has not served him well
ArchiveLooted art
Hector Feliciano seeks $6.8 million from Rosenberg heirs for finding Nazi loot
The complaint demands a 17.5% finders fee for aiding the recovery of stolen artworks
ArchiveRestitution
Japan returns looted Paul Klee watercolour
A Kyoto museum has accepted “symbolic” payment for restituting a work of art
ArchiveProvenance research
“The Jewish people should be heirs to heirless art” says Knesset member, as plans are made to return Nazi-loot to rightful owners
Christie’s and Sotheby’s to help with provenance research projects
ArchiveRestitution
Knoedler and Seattle Art Museum settle over Matisse lawsuit
In 1954 Knoedler sold picture stolen from Paul Rosenberg by Nazis
ArchiveLooting
In an attempt to find works of art that may have been stolen by the Nazis ten British museums have named 350 works of art whose history between 1933 and 1945 is uncertain
British provenance probes
ArchiveLooting
The World Jewish Congress has made accusations about the provenance of works in US permanent collections
Museums race to list questionable paintings
ArchiveBooks
Book Review: How we almost lost the Mona Lisa
The Spanish involvement with Nazi-looted art and the part played by the Austrian resistance in saving works of art are among the revelations in this book
ArchiveLooting
Restitution battles rage from Seattle to Paris to Budapest to New Zealand
Matisse Odalisque restored to the Rosenberg family
ArchiveLooting
Mahler-Werfel restitution case revived, and put on hold
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
ArchiveLooting
New York Court of Appeals rules that Schiele paintings must be returned to Leopold Foundation
The paintings are claimed to have been stolen from their rightful owners during the Nazi annexation of Austria
ArchiveKazimir Malevich
MoMA reached settlement agreement with Malevich heirs
The works in question were smuggled out of Germany during the Nazi regime for safe-keeping
ArchiveLooting
Russia rules on restitution: “Art taken from occupied Germany belongs to Russia”
Constitutional court decides in favour of nationalists’ bill
ArchiveLooting
Growing unease over looted Lubomirski Dürers
A sheet of paper found in a second-hand book by The Art Newspaper details valuations of the drawings when sold by Colnaghi
ArchiveLooted art
The National Gallery investigates wartime provenance of 120 paintings
The London gallery aims to ensure that they are not war loot and appeals for assistance in checking their recent histories
ArchivePablo Picasso
War-torn Picasso
At the liberation of Paris, Picasso declared, “I am not the kind of painter who goes out like a photographer for something to depict. But I have no doubt that the war is in these paintings.” This exhibition sifts the evidence
ArchiveNazi loot
War loot found in a rug dealer’s shop in Boston
Veteran’s reluctant admission of taking plunder clinches case
ArchiveExhibitions
Breughel-Breughel exhibition marred as family battles over gallery established with funds of Nazi Alfried Krupp
The Krupps go to war again
ArchiveWar & Conflict
Dresden recovers four missing pictures
The paintings have been missing since 1945
ArchiveBooks
Books: The “Spoils of War” 1995 conference papers
A survey touching all the bases, including losses, recoveries, legal debates, and cultural restitution
ArchiveArchives
Revealed: what happened to the “degenerate” art in Germany’s museums, from G to Z
A 1941 typescript has been discovered that fills in the missing history of 16,588 works of art seized by the Nazis
ArchiveObituaries
Death of Hugo Buchthal, one of the last original Warburgians
He died aged 87
ArchiveNews
Ukraine returns war booty to Germany
This is in marked contrast to Russia’s tough line against any restitution of works of art taken from Nazi Germany
ArchiveNews
Texas war booty charge thrown out of court
Technicality spares the sellers of the Quedlinburg treasure
ArchiveNews
War loot funded Quedlinburg GI’s double lifestyle
Former acquaintances in Dallas’s gay scene report war booty on show in his apartment
ArchiveBooks
Books: Stalin’s supermuseum
As the Red Army pushed back the Nazi invaders in 1944, a pair of Soviet art historians compiled a list of masterpieces from Europe’s museums to be brought back to Moscow
ArchiveBooks
Books: Spiegelman's comics come to MoMA
Maus, the highly successful re-telling of the Holocaust, uses mice, cats and pigs as the protagonists
ArchiveKazimir Malevich
Correcting Malévich’s own disinformation
Conference papers of the 1988-89 touring exhibition are scutinised
ArchiveKazimir Malevich
True claim to Malevich works still to be determined, but Popov eager to strike a deal involving Koening Collection
The Amsterdam Old Master drawings may be swapped for others owned by the van Beuningen Museum in Russia
ArchiveLooting
The library of the Sabatinis
After decades of pretending to know nothing about it, Mainz University library reluctantly returns Nazi loot of precious books
ArchiveSecond World War
Polish museums to sell military equipment preserved in bogs
They have already dug out several dozen armoured cars, field-guns, transporters and other vehicles
Archive'Degenerate' art
Nazi 'degenerate art' show to be reconstructed in LA
An irony that the American art world will enjoy after the Mapplethorpe censorship row: the N.E.A. is sponsoring a partial replay of the Nazi “Entartete Kunst” exhibition of 1937