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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

stolen art

"Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy" (Tate Britain)
March 30, 2025, 5:44 am
UK’s Tate Britain gallery to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish collector
Spoliation Advisory Panel rules that ‘Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy’ will be returned to descendants of Samuel Hartveld, who fled Antwerp with his wife in May 1940
By LAURIE CHURCHMAN
Two stolen paintings, Picasso's 'Tête' (right) and Chagall's 'L’homme en prière' (left) found in Antwerp are seen in this undated handout image. (Handout / Police judiciaire fédérale Namur)
January 17, 2024, 4:49 am
Stolen in Tel Aviv, Picasso and Chagall works worth $900,000 found in Antwerp home
The paintings, Picasso’s ‘Tête’ and Chagall’s ‘L’homme en prière,’ were purloined from a collector in 2010, along with $680,000 worth of jewelry
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Private First Class Richard Barancik joined the 'Monuments Men' in 1945; after the war, he became a prolific architect in Chicago. (Monuments Men and Women Foundation; Dignity Memorial via JTA)
July 26, 2023, 6:34 pm
Richard Barancik, last of ‘Monuments Men’ who recovered Nazi loot, dies at 98
Barancik served in Salzburg, Austria where he helped collect stolen treasures and return them to original Jewish owners
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, 12 September 2006. (Andrew Dunn, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia)
March 29, 2023, 11:35 pm
UK museum to return painting stolen by Nazis to family of Jewish owner
Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum surrenders 19th-century painting by French artist Gustave Courbet stolen from Paris apartment of Robert Bing in 1941
By AFP
This photograph taken on October 29, 2020 shows the empty entrance of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris at its closing time, ahead of a second national general lockdown from October 30 to December 1, aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
February 15, 2022, 1:33 pm
France to approve return of 15 artworks stolen from Jews during World War II
Motion authorizes public museums holding works, including Musee d’Orsay in Paris, to hand over property to heirs of original owners
By Anne Pascale Reboul
This image, provided by Christie's, shows Vincent van Gogh's 1888 work 'Wheatstacks,' sold as part of sale of 'The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism,' in New York, November 11, 2021. The watercolor, seized by the Nazis during World War II, sold to an undisclosed buyer of $35.9 million (Christie's)
October 22, 2021, 2:38 pm
The day I got to see Van Gogh’s Nazi-seized ‘Wheatstacks,’ from both sides
A work of great art has been on public display in London this week for the first time since 1905. On Thursday, I inspected it up close — front and rear…
By David Horovitz
A cubist female bust by the Spanish painter Picasso is displayed by police officers in Athens during a press conference on June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
June 30, 2021, 9:17 am
Greek police recover stolen Picasso painting, then drop it
No visible damage done to 1939 piece gifted by artist to Greece in recognition of resistance to Nazis; authorities hail ‘special day’ in return of painting after daring 2012 heist
By AFP and ToI Staff
Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 drawing of La Mousmé (courtesy: Christie’s)
March 11, 2021, 8:49 pm
Van Gogh drawing once looted by Nazis sold for over $10 million at auction
La Mousmé was restituted in 1956 after being seized from a Jewish banker during German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940
By ToI Staff
One of Pissarro's first paintings in the Neo-Impressionist or pointillist style, 'La Bergère rentrant des moutons.' (Wikimedia Commons)
March 9, 2021, 8:00 pm
French Holocaust survivor ratchets up battle with US over Nazi-looted painting
1886 artwork by Camille Pissarro was seized from Leone-Noelle Meyer’s adoptive parents during German invasion of France, and is now the subject of a legal battle
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT
Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 drawing of La Mousmé (courtesy: Christie’s)
February 28, 2021, 12:04 am
Van Gogh drawing once looted by Nazis to be sold at auction
La Mousmé was restituted in 1956 after being seized from Jewish banker during German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940; it is expected to be sold for $10 million
By ToI Staff
American-Hungarian dual citizen Martha Nierenberg shows an old family photo during a press conference in the Hotel Intercontinental in Budapest, October 24, 2000. (MTI/Tibor Rozsahegyi/ AP)
August 9, 2020, 4:33 pm
US Holocaust survivor who spent decades fighting for family’s looted art dies
Family of biochemist and tabletop designer Martha Nierenberg, 96, says they’ll continue legal battle for art collection, stolen by the Nazis and still held by Hungary
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Paul Signac's La Corne d’Or, 1907 (Courtesy)
January 11, 2020, 11:46 pm
After return to Jewish owners, Nazi-looted art to be auctioned for $22 million
Three pieces by Pissarro and Signac go up for sale nearly a century after they were taken from Gaston Levy’s home in German-occupied France
By ToI Staff
Paul Signac, Quai de Clichy (date unknown). (courtesy: German Lost Art Foundation)
July 3, 2019, 7:43 pm
Germany hands back Nazi-looted painting to Jewish heirs
Paul Signat’s ‘Quai de Clichy,’ found in Gurlitt hoard, returned to family of Gaston Prosper Levy, who fled from Nazis in France
By AFP
This image released by Christie's on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, shows a 3,000-year-old stone sculpture of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun at Christie's in London. (Christie's via AP)
July 1, 2019, 8:01 am
Tutankhamun sculpture’s London auction sparks Egyptian outcry
Ownership of art piece can apparently only be traced back to 1970s; Cairo wants representation of pharaoh’s head returned to its country of origin
By Dmitry Zaks
In this photo made available on January 1, 2019, Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi Gallery, poses for a photo as he holds onto a copy of a still-life "Vase of Flowers," by Dutch artist Jan van Huysum, with writing in red reading "stolen," inside the Uffizi gallery, in Florence, Italy. (Uffizi Gallery press office via AP)
June 30, 2019, 9:57 am
Germany to return painting stolen by Nazis to Italy
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to travel to Florence where he will hand over ‘Vase of Flowers’ by Dutch artist Jan van Huysum to Uffizi Gallery
By Agencies
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