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Nazi-looted art
Illustrative: Oil work entitled 'Triptych of the Crucifixion' attributed to Flemish painter Joachim Patinir during a ceremony of restitution at Culture ministry in Paris, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
April 3, 2018, 11:25 pm
Report lashes France’s ‘lack of ambition’ to return looted Jewish art
Government paper blasts '40 years of inaction' over thousands of artworks that were either confiscated by the Nazis or forced to be sold for less than their real value
By Antoine FROIDEFOND
The Louvre (photo credit: Alvesgaspar/Wikipedia)
February 12, 2018, 6:28 pm
France returns Nazi-looted art to Jewish family
Three Renaissance paintings given to descendants of Herta and Henry Bromberg, who were forced to sell them in 1938 to flee Europe
By AFP
Screen capture from video showing a detail from Pablo Picasso's painting 'The Actor.' (YouTube)
February 8, 2018, 6:34 pm
Judge says the Met can keep Picasso sold by Jew fleeing the Nazis
Court finds that family of late German businessman Paul Leffmann failed to show he disposed of masterpiece 'The Actor' under duress as he escaped to Switzerland
By JTA
Paintings looted by Nazis during World War II, are on display at the Louvre museum, in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
January 30, 2018, 6:16 pm
Louvre displays art looted by Nazis, hopes to find rightful owners
Famed Paris museum features 31 paintings stolen during WWII in an effort to locate their legitimate beneficiaries
By Samuel Petrequin
Illustrative: The Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin (Wiki Commons, CC BY 3.0, Andreas Praefcke)
January 22, 2018, 8:41 pm
Two Berlin museums return works to heirs of Jewish collector
Foundation gives back 11 works that had belonged to Margarete Oppenheim, whose family was forced to sell them at a deflated price to National Socialists in 1936
By JTA
A section of Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze (Photo credit: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)
January 19, 2018, 11:32 pm
Vienna marks 100 years since heyday of art, and its Jewish collectors
A century after fall of Austro-Hungarian empire, museums in Austrian capital display country's top works, some of which were looted by Nazis
By Philippe SCHWAB
Richard Aronowitz, author of 'Five Amber Beads' and provenance researcher for looted Holocaust art for Sotheby's auction house. (Courtesy)
January 2, 2018, 5:10 am
How his novel led an author into the intriguing world of WWII art restitution
Richard Aronowitz fell into his role at Sotheby’s auction house after following his own journey of discovery into his Jewish-born mother’s turbulent past
By Nadine Wojakovski
A museum worker carries a 19th century painting during a presentation ceremony in Warsaw, Poland on November 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
November 29, 2017, 9:58 pm
Painting looted during WWII returns to Poland with US help
FBI agents in Pennsylvania recover 19th century painting by Polish artist Robert Sliwinski, which was stolen by the Nazis
By AP
German-Jewish art deal Max Stern in Berlin circa 1925. (Wikimedia Commons)
November 19, 2017, 7:38 pm
German city cancels exhibit on art dealer Max Stern over restitution demands
Dusseldorf official says it's pulling a project that's been planned for three years due to current demand for information
By JTA
A combination of photos released by prosecutors in Augsburg, Germany on November 12, 2013 show five of the more than 1,500 paintings believed looted by the Nazis, seized from a Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt. (Lostart.de/Augsburg prosecutors/AFP/File)
November 7, 2017, 11:10 pm
The tricky process of returning Nazi-looted art
Tens of thousands of works remain 'orphaned' with the heirs of original owners unknown
By Robin GREMMEL
'La cueillette des pois' ('Picking Peas') by Camille Pissarro, painted in 1887. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)
November 7, 2017, 5:27 pm
French court returns painting looted by Nazi collaborators to owner’s family
Lawyer for American couple in possession of Pissarro piece says they will appeal, shouldn't have to 'pay for the crimes of the Vichy regime'
By AFP
'La cueillette des pois' ('Picking Peas') by Camille Pissarro, painted in 1887. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)
November 5, 2017, 6:35 pm
French court to rule on Nazi-looted Pissarro painting
Descendants of original owner of 'La Cueillette des Pois' say current owners should have known picture was on list of stolen artworks
By Juliette MONTESSE
A visitor watches the paintings "Melancholisches Maedchen", left, and Nackte Frau im Walde" of German painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in the exhibition 'Status Report Gurlitt. degenerate art - confiscated and sold' in the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland, Wednesday, November 1, 2017. (Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via AP)
November 1, 2017, 8:53 pm
Hundreds of Nazi-looted artworks go on display in twin exhibitions
450 pieces from Gurlitt collection displayed in Switzerland and Germany to shed light on systematic theft from Jewish collectors
By Madeleine SCHWARTZ
A combination of photos released by prosecutors in Augsburg, Germany on November 12, 2013 show five of the more than 1,500 paintings believed looted by the Nazis, seized from a Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt. (Lostart.de/Augsburg prosecutors/AFP/File)
October 26, 2017, 6:06 pm
Tiny hole in canvas identifies Nazi-looted painting in Gurlitt collection
Work by French painter Thomas Couture determined to have belonged to Jewish politician Georges Mandel
By JTA
'La cueillette des pois' ('Picking Peas') by Camille Pissarro, painted in 1887. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)
October 9, 2017, 6:12 pm
Nazi-looted Pissarro painting at center of Paris legal tussle
Court to determine whether 1887 gouache belongs to descendants of French-Jewish art collector or US couple who claim they unknowingly bought it in 1995
By Juliette MONTESSE
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