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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
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LAURIE CHURCHMAN
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
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Reuters
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ToI Staff
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
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
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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
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
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
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AFP
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ToI Staff
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
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ToI Staff
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
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
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
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
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
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AFP
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
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
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Agencies
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