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Nazi-looted art

Black and white photographs of the Adam and Eve Diptych painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder. (Goudstikker/von Saher archive)
September 17, 2026, 9:43 am
LA Federation sues museum for custody of looted paintings once hoarded by Hermann Göring
Pasadena museum taken to court over Adam and Eve diptych; separately, Holocaust survivor’s daughters sue Auschwitz Museum for watercolors she was forced to paint for Josef Mengele
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Visual arts teacher Ariel Bassano speaks in front of a painting identified as "Portrait of a Lady," stolen by the Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector, as it is displayed at the Public Prosecutor's Office in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on September 3, 2025. (AFP)
September 4, 2026, 8:51 pm
Argentina ordered to return Nazi-looted painting to Jewish Dutch collector’s heir
Patricia Kadgien, whose father was high-ranking Nazi Friedrich Kadgien, agrees to return the painting to sole heir, Marei von Saher, and give some $3,200 to local hospitals
By Federico Bruno
This handout photograph taken in an undisclosed area and released by Arthur Brand on May 11, 2026, shows the painting 'Portrait of a Young Girl' by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, an art piece stolen from the world-famous Goudstikker collection by the Nazis, discovered in the house of the descendants of a notorious Dutch SS collaborator (Handout and Arthur BRAND / AFP)
May 11, 2026, 11:19 am
Art looted from Jewish collector hanging in home of Dutch SS leader’s family, sleuth says
Discovery made when descendant of Nazi collaborator revealed ‘Portrait of a Young Girl’ by Toon Kelder was displayed in relative’s hallway; theft has passed statute of limitations
By Richard Carter
French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting, "Madame Alphonse Daudet," left, is seen at the Musée d'Orsay museum's new permanent gallery dedicated artworks recovered after World War II whose ownership remains uncertain, in Paris on May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
May 6, 2026, 6:47 am
New gallery at Paris museum reckons with French role in Nazi art looting
Musée d’Orsay displays works that have been unclaimed since the Nazis obtained them during WWII, when the art market in Paris grew rich on the looted property of slaughtered Jews
By Thomas Adamson
Illustrative: Violinist Stefan Jackiw holds the 1714 Joachim-Ma Stradivarius at Sotheby's auction house in New York on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
April 24, 2026, 5:42 pm
300-year-old Nazi-looted Stradivarius said to reappear in France
Experts believe violin made by iconic Italian luthier in 1719 was stolen by German soldiers from Warsaw museum in 1944
By Isabelle Le Page and Damien Stroka
A judge ruled in 2026 that Amedeo Modigliani's "Seated Man with a Cane," shown here in part, must be returned to the family of the man who owned it before the Holocaust. (Courtesy Sotheby's)
April 15, 2026, 12:41 pm
US scraps deadline for Holocaust-looted art claims, paving way for new restitution efforts
Trump signs law expanding 2016 HEAR act, canceling sunset clause and barring artworks’ current owners from using certain legal tactics, such as switching courts
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Amedeo Modigliani's 'Seated Man with a Cane,' 1918
April 5, 2026, 3:50 pm
Court orders Nazi-looted Modigliani painting be returned to Jewish art dealer’s estate
After 11-year case, NY judge rules $25 million painting kept in storage in Switzerland is same one Germans seized from Oscar Stettiner’s Paris shop in WWII
By ToI Staff
Andre, played by Alex Lutz, in a still from 'Auction.' (Courtesy)
November 1, 2025, 7:10 am
French film ‘Auction’ revisits thrilling tussle over real-life Nazi-looted masterpiece
In US theaters Oct. 29, Jewish director Pascal Bonitzer’s latest feature centers on a $21 million painting by Egon Schiele that went missing in WWII and turned up on a small town wall
By Rich Tenorio
Argentine Patricia Kadgien (C), daughter of SS financial guru Friedrich Kadgien, one of several high-ranking Nazis to escape to Argentina after the war, attends a hearing after being arrested in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province on September 4, 2025. (AFP)
October 12, 2025, 4:43 pm
How a Dutch retiree helped uncover Nazi-stolen art in Argentina
Working from his father’s wartime diaries, Paul Post tracked down painting looted during the Holocaust to Argentina, in possession of daughter of high-ranking Nazi official
By Leila Miller
Two paintings believed to be by Ambrosius Bosschaert recovered by the Monuments Men and Women Foundation. (Courtesy Monuments Men and Women Foundation via JTA)
September 16, 2025, 10:48 am
Ohio auction house halts sale of ‘unclaimed’ paintings Nazis took from Jewish owner
Art restitution organization, responding to tip-off, researched works by Ambrosius Bosschaert and discovered they belonged to family of German Jewish collector Adolphe Schloss
By Grace Gilson
A painting identified by Dutch newspaper AD as believed to be "Portrait of a Lady" by Italian baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi (1655–1743), stolen by the Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector, is displayed at the Public Prosecutor's Office in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on September 3, 2025. (AFP)
September 4, 2025, 2:27 am
Argentina recovers Nazi-looted painting that went missing after being spotted in property ad
Argentine prosecutors say ‘Portrait of a Lady’ was returned by lawyer of senior SS officer’s daughter; art expert assesses that the piece is ‘in good condition for its age’
By AFP
A member of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) stands outside the house that was raided (L) after a photo showing 17th century masterwork 'Portrait of a Lady' by Italian baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi, allegedly stolen by the Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector, appeared in an advertisement for the sale of the property, in Parque Luro neighborhood, Mar del Plata, Argentina, on August 27, 2025. (Mara Sosti / AFP)
From the WebSeptember 3, 2025, 7:48 am
Two held after Nazi-looted painting shows up in ad for Argentina house sale
Daughter and husband of Hitler’s financial adviser arrested, but ‘Portrait of a Lady,’ plundered from Amsterdam art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, has since disappeared
By AFP
The Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker kept a record of his holdings in a pocket notebook in the 1930s. Among the paintings he owned when he died was one that has reappeared in a real estate ad in August 2025 in Buenos Aires. (Black book by Marcel Antonisse/AFP via Getty Images via JTA; real estate photograph from Robles Casas & Campas via JTA)
September 3, 2025, 6:50 am
Argentina arrests daughter, son-in-law of Hitler’s financial adviser over looted painting
Cops seize two other artworks amid searches but fail to find ‘Portrait of a Lady,’ which has been missing since for-sale notice revealed it was in Nazi fugitive Friedrich Kadgien’s home
By AFP
The Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker kept a record of his holdings in a pocket notebook in the 1930s. Among the paintings he owned when he died was one that has reappeared in a real estate ad in August 2025 in Buenos Aires. (Black book by Marcel Antonisse/AFP via Getty Images via JTA; real estate photograph from Robles Casas & Campas via JTA)
August 27, 2025, 12:09 pm
Looted painting vanishes after being seen in Nazi’s daughter’s real estate ad
Friedrich Kadgien’s daughter evades questions from journalist who spotted artwork, immediately removes ad and changes name on Instagram
By Toby Axelrod
La Route Montante (The Road), 1884, by French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). The painting is part of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection and can be viewed at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, Switzerland. (Public domain)
June 25, 2025, 8:09 pm
Swiss museum reaches deal to keep Gauguin work sold by Jews fleeing Nazi Germany
French master’s 1884 ‘The Street’ is one of five originally Jewish-owned works removed by Kunsthaus Zurich that were looted or sold under duress and swept up by German arms dealer
By Agencies
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