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Nazi-looted art
This May 12, 2005 file photo shows an unidentified visitor viewing the Impressionist painting called "Rue St.-Honore, Apres-Midi, Effet de Pluie" painted in 1897 by Camille Pissarro, on display in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. (AP/ Mariana Eliano)
July 11, 2017, 11:18 pm
Appeals court allows Jewish family to sue for Nazi-looted painting
Grandson of Lilly Cassirer to sue Madrid museum for Paris street scene by Camille Pissarro, valued at at least $40m
By JTA
This May 12, 2005 file photo shows an unidentified visitor viewing the Impressionist painting called "Rue St.-Honore, Apres-Midi, Effet de Pluie" painted in 1897 by Camille Pissarro, on display in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. (AP/ Mariana Eliano)
July 11, 2017, 4:51 am
US family can sue to get back Nazi-looted masterpiece
Appeals court revives lawsuit by Lilly Cassirer's great-grandchildren over 1897 Camille Pissarro oil-on-canvas
By SUDHIN THANAWALA
Screen capture from video showing a detail from The Disrobing of Christ or El Expolio, by artist El Greco, an example of some of the Nazi-looted artworks of art sought by heirs of Baron Mór Lipót Herzog. (screen capture: YouTube/Andrea Greco y Fernando Álvarez)
June 22, 2017, 4:47 pm
US court rules heirs can sue Hungarian museums of Nazi-looted art
More than 40 pieces from the collection of Baron Mór Lipót Herzog are estimated to be worth some $100 million
By JTA
Members of the federal police show a bust relief portrait of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at the Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 16, 2017. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)
June 20, 2017, 8:39 am
Huge hidden trove of Nazi artifacts found in Argentina
Police discover 75 items in secret room of art collector, including macabre medical device used to measure head size possibly tied to Josef Mengele
By Debora Rey
Museum of Fine Arts (Kunstmuseum) in Bern, May 8, 2014. (AFP/FABRICE COFFRINI)
June 7, 2017, 12:01 pm
Swiss museum that inherited Gurlitt trove selling properties
Kunstmuseum Bern working to restore any Nazi-looted items to Jewish heirs, seeking to raise cash to cover cost of maintaining collection
By AP and TOI staff
Michele Marieschi, La Punta della Dogana e san Giorgio Maggiore, 1739-40. (Sotheby's)
From the WebMay 28, 2017, 3:22 am
Case of Venetian masterpiece looted by Nazis closed 80 years on
18th-century Italian masterpiece bought in good faith 60 years ago expected to fetch more than £500,000, The Guardian reports
The Marmottan Museum in Paris. (CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons)
May 6, 2017, 8:00 pm
Pissarro seized in WWII turns up in Paris show
Family of Simon Bauer, who have long been searching for 'Picking Peas' painting, pursuing legal action for its return
By AFP
A harlequin figure made by the porcelain manufacturers Höchst, Fürstenburg, and Fulda. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston via JTA)
May 4, 2017, 9:06 pm
Boston museum settles Holocaust restitution claim
Museum of Fine Arts pays heirs undisclosed sum for 18th-century figurines sold by Jewish owners in Berlin in 1937
By JTA
In this Feb. 8, 2014, file photo, a visitor to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, takes a photograph of a piece called “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” by French impressionist artist Camille Pissarro, at the museum. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
April 28, 2017, 7:35 am
Painting stolen by Nazis to rotate between Paris and US
Legal settlement will see 'Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep' displayed at University of Oklahoma and French museum
By AP
File: Hitler assesses looted art (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
April 23, 2017, 6:06 pm
Nazi-pillaged artwork to be auctioned in Vienna
‘Portrait of a Man’ by Bartholomeus van der Helst taken during Holocaust from the famous Adolphe Schloss collection
By TOI staff
Close-up of a ornate cross found in the Guelph Treasure (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia)
April 22, 2017, 5:01 am
Germany to appeal US case involving Nazi art sale
Fate of precious collection sold to Prussia under Hitler's rule should not be decided by American judges, officials say
By AP
In this photo taken on Wednesday, April 5, 2017, Meir Heller, the Jerusalem lawyer, whose client insists on maintaining his anonymity, holds the Max Liebermann's 'Basket Weavers' painting in a law office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 7, 2017, 11:28 am
Israeli Holocaust survivor to return Nazi-looted artwork to US Jewish heir
After emotional negotiation that pitted two victims of Nazi persecution against each other, Max Liebermann's 'Basket Weavers' to be returned to Peter Toren, 91
By Aron Heller
A medieval cross, part of the Welfenschatz, is displayed at the Bode Museum in Berlin. The heirs of several Nazi-era Jewish art dealers have spent nearly a decade trying to persuade German officials to return the collection of medieval relics valued at more than $250 million (AP/Markus Schreiber)
April 6, 2017, 3:10 pm
US court ruling could bring more suits over Nazi-looted art
Judge's decision that forced sale of Guelph Treasure was part of genocide and violated international law will likely move cases out of 'obstacle-ridden' Germany
By SAM HANANEL
'The Judgement of Paris' by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1913. Wikimedia Commons)
April 6, 2017, 6:00 am
German government pays $1.28m to heir of Nazi-looted painting
'The Judgment of Paris,' a 1913 work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchener taken from Jewish collector in WWII, will continue to hang in German museum
By JTA and TOI staff
The medieval Dome Reliquary (13th century) of the Guelph Treasure is displayed at the Bode Museum in Berlin, January 9, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Markus Schreiber)
April 3, 2017, 4:55 pm
Heirs allowed to sue Germany over Nazi-looted collection
US court rules that Jewish descendants may file claim for collection known as Guelph Treasure, on display in a Berlin museum
By JTA
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