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This undated image, provided by the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, Germany, shows the 1907 painting 'Das bunte Leben' (The Colorful Life) by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. (Lenbachhaus Museum via AP)
October 16, 2026, 3:00 pm
Kandinsky painting, restituted to Jewish family after Nazi looting, sells for over $42 million
‘The Colorful Life’ exceeds upper limit of estimated price by almost $10 million after six-minute bidding war, becoming highest-valued lot of the night, Christie’s says
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
Left: “Portrait of Bruno Cassirer” by Max Liebermann. Right: “Bruno Cassirer’s Father on His Deathbed”, by Max Slevogt (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)
March 3, 2025, 6:02 pm
87 years on, German gallery returns stolen portraits to heirs of Jewish art dealer
Nazis seized Bruno Cassirer’s prestigious publishing house and art gallery in 1938; works by Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt will be displayed in a national museum
By Zev Stub
Prof. Jonathan Petropoulos (left) and Bruno Lohse. (© Living Memory Productions)
February 19, 2025, 6:23 pm
Unrepentant Nazi art thief who stole Jews’ art from ‘still warm walls’ focus of new film
Airing Feb. 19 on PBS, ‘Plunderer’ chronicles the life of Bruno Lohse, who amassed a collection worth millions while looting the homes of Jews for his boss Hermann Goering during WWII
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative. Courier service staff prepare to ship the 16th-century Italian painting 'Madonna with Child,' attributed to Alessandro Turchi, which was looted from a private Polish collection by Nazi Germany during World War II, at the Polish embassy in Tokyo on June 1, 2023. (AP Photo/ Eugene Hoshiko/ File)
July 24, 2024, 10:22 pm
Germany moves to ease return of art looted by Nazis to rightful owners
Draft legislation would create a new ‘right to information’ for victims from whom works were taken between 1933-1945, suspend statute of limitations for return of artworks
By AFP
France's Culture Minister Rima Abdul-Malak (C), flanked by France's Minister for Solidarity, Autonomy and Persons with Disabilities Jean-Christophe Combe (L) and France's Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau, leaves the presidential Elysee Palace after attending the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris on July 13, 2023. (Photo by Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)
July 13, 2023, 7:06 pm
France passes law making it easier for Jews to reclaim Nazi-stolen art
Both houses of parliament unanimously vote in legislation cutting red tape for returning works from French museums to former owners
By AFP
Bruno Schulz, 'Dedication,' 'The Book of Idolatry,' 1920s. (courtesy)
June 30, 2023, 6:37 pm
How the work of a celebrated artist killed by a Nazi mysteriously ended up in Israel
In ‘Bruno Schulz,’ author Benjamin Balint follows the dark story of a renowned Polish-Jewish creative turned SS officer’s artist-slave, and the battles over his surviving legacy
By JP O’ Malley
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art will join nationwide protests against the judicial overhaul, by darkening its galleries on March 23, 2023 (Courtesy Amit Garon)
June 29, 2023, 7:33 am
Tel Aviv Museum of art facing pressure over links to auction of Nazi-looted works
Christie’s executive also on museum fundraising board under fire for conference that critics say will give war profiteers a platform; Claims Conference refuses donation offer
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
People take pictures of Gustav Klimt's 'Dame mit Faecher' (Lady with a Fan) as it is displayed at Sotheby's auction rooms in London, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
June 28, 2023, 4:21 am
Final portrait by Klimt sold for $94 million, smashing European auction record
‘Dame mit Facher,’ which was still on its easel when the celebrated Austrian painter was found dead in 1918, bought by Hong Kong collector in latest eye-popping art deal
By Agencies
This undated image, provided by the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, Germany, shows the 1907 painting 'Das bunte Leben' (The Colorful Life) by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. (Lenbachhaus Museum via AP)
June 14, 2023, 9:40 am
German commission backs restoring painting owned by Bavarian bank to Jewish heirs
Kandinsky’s ‘The Colorful Life’ was loaned by Lewenstein family to Stedelijk Museum, but put up for auction shortly after Nazi occupation of Netherlands
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Tourists stand near a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019. (Canaan Lidor)
March 29, 2023, 3:29 pm
Art in spotlight as 9 countries’ Holocaust envoys hold 1st gathering on restitution
US delegate Ellen Germain say conference meant to ensure governments are building on each other’s experience
By Canaan Lidor
Edvard Munch, 'Dance on the Beach.' (Reinhardt Frieze). (Courtesy of Sotheby's)
February 24, 2023, 3:23 am
Heirs of Nazi-persecuted collector hail justice in auction of Edvard Munch painting
Prof. Curt Glaser sold ‘Dance on the Beach’ under duress in the 1930s. Now, the 1906 masterpiece is expected to fetch $15-25 million after a deal was struck with the current owner
By Robert Philpot
This 'Statuette of Maria Lactans' was returned to the heirs of its pre-war Jewish owner, Jakob Goldschmidt. (National Museums in Berlin, Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art/Marion Böhl Public Domain Mark 1.0)
January 31, 2023, 4:39 am
Germany returns 16th-century statuette sold off by Nazis to Jewish banker’s heirs
Sculpture of Mary and infant Jesus had belonged to Jakob Goldschmidt, a prominent businessman persecuted by the Nazis and forced to flee Germany in 1933
By Toby Axelrod
A Maria Lactans, or breastfeeding Virgin Mary statuette, which was returned to the heirs of Jewish-German banker Jakob Goldschmidt, on January 20, 2023. (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)
January 24, 2023, 3:36 pm
Virgin Mary sculpture sold under Nazi duress returned to Jewish owner’s heirs
Germany finds 16th-century breastfeeding statuette was sold in 1936 by collector Jakob Goldschmidt under unfair financial conditions
By Michael Horovitz
The Wassily Kandinsky painting 'View of Murnau with Church,' which was returned in September 2022 to the descendants of a Jewish art collector who was murdered in the Holocaust. (Public domain)
September 29, 2022, 2:44 pm
Reversing earlier stance, Netherlands to return looted Kandinsky to Jewish family
Relatives of murdered Auschwitz victim Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann will regain ‘View of Murnau with Church,’ displayed in the Dutch city of Eindhoven’s art museum since 1951
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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