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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
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
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
Works of art by Austrian expressionist artist Egon Schiele on display at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, September 20, 2023, during a ceremony returning the pieces to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum. (AP/Bobby Caina Calvan)
March 9, 2024, 10:11 am
21 more countries agree to updated guidelines on restituting Nazi-looted art
WJRO and Claims Conference say 24 nations made minimal to no progress on issue, adding that it’s more difficult when it comes to pieces in private hands rather than public collections
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Russian War Prisoner, Egon Schiele (Art Institute of Chicago)
September 14, 2023, 10:37 pm
Authorities seize from US museums 3 artworks worth millions said stolen by Nazis
Paintings by Egon Schiele are sought by heirs of Jewish art collector who died in the Holocaust
By AFP
This photo, taken on June 29, 2023, shows a bronze head of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (145 AD-211 CE), Asia Minor, ca 195-211, displayed at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen. (Camille BAS-WOHLERT / AFP)
July 4, 2023, 11:35 am
Turkey seeks severed head of stolen ancient statue from Danish museum
Ankara wants to reunite the bronze head of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus with his recently returned body, but the Copenhagen museum is not sure the two are a match
By Camille BAS-WOHLERT
Christie's international head of jewelry, Rahul Kadakia, speaks on his mobile telephone behind a display case of jewels during a press preview of the 'World of Heidi Horten' sales in Geneva, on May 8, 2023. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
May 15, 2023, 2:27 pm
Holocaust survivors want Tel Aviv to pull out of Christie’s looted art conference
Request comes after auction house ignored Jewish groups’ pleas to drop sale of jewelry belonging to widow of man who bought Jewish businesses sold under duress in 1930s
By Canaan Lidor
Fritz Grünbaum, left, was an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer and art collector. Egon Schiele's 'Woman in a Black Pinafore' is shown right. (Courtesy of CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LTD. 2022 and Getty Images via JTA)
October 27, 2022, 10:29 pm
2 Nazi-looted paintings, returned to heirs of owner, to be auctioned for charity
Works by artist Egon Schiele, seized from Jewish cabaret artist Fritz Grunbaum during the Holocaust, are expected to fetch $2.8 million
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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
The painting at center, 'The Rape of Tamar,' was sold by a Jewish family under duress in Germany in the 1930s. Seen at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, August 20, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
September 2, 2022, 6:23 am
New York law on Nazi-looted art aims to shine light on lesser-known Holocaust evil
Amid widespread ignorance about genocide, state law requiring museums to label plundered art will inform public and pressure museums, but implementation remains unclear
By Luke Tress
Illustrative. Opioids in a loaded syringe and pills. (iStock)
September 1, 2022, 2:01 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 1: NY law addresses Holocaust education; an opioid antidote?
US reporter Luke Tress looks at Holocaust art education in NY and opioid crisis; Jessica Steinberg discusses Aviv Geffen’s abrupt political shift and rebates for film/TV producers
By ToI Staff
French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot poses next to an oil painting by Gustav Klimt painted in 1905 called 'Rosebushes under the Trees,' during a ceremony at the Orsay museum in Paris, March 15, 2021. (Alain Jocard/Pool Photo via AP)
January 30, 2022, 12:38 pm
France votes to restore 15 works of art looted by Nazis to Jewish heirs
Culture Minister Bachelot hails ‘historic’ bill; Senate approval still needed; among pieces to be returned are a Klimt and a Chagall
By AFP and ToI Staff
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, photographed on November 15, 2016. (The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
June 30, 2021, 5:21 am
How Nazi-looted treasures ended up in a Jewish-owned collection
After antiques were donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum, their ‘concealed histories’ were exposed, along with how much was known about their acquisition
By Jenni Frazer
"The Fox" by Franz Marc (Wikipedia Commons)
May 1, 2021, 2:54 am
In precedent, German city to return painting to heirs of Holocaust survivor
Commission on restitution of stolen Nazi-era art previously avoided cases in which cultural property changed hands outside Germany
By Toby Axelrod
'La Cueillette des pois' ('Picking Peas') by Camille Pissarro, painted in 1887. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)
July 1, 2020, 8:21 pm
France confirms restitution of Pissarro looted from Jewish collector in WWII
Court rules American couple who bought the painting in 1995 must return it to Simon Bauer’s family; they say they will appeal to European court
By AFP
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