stolen art

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

Two US soldiers, shown in 1945 or 1946 inspecting a Rembrandt self-portrait in a salt mine where the Nazis stored stolen and hidden art (Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration)

June 5, 2019, 9:46 pm

France ramps up bid to return stolen WWII Jewish assets

Thousands of artifacts plundered by Nazis still held in French museums; government vows ‘active role’ to find owners

By AFP

The 1639 painting by Salomon Koninck titled "A Scholar Sharpening His Quill" looted by the Nazis from the Schloss family during World War II, is unveiled on April 1, 2019 at the French Consulate in New York City. (Photo by Don Emmert / AFP)

April 3, 2019, 9:12 am

Heirs welcome return of Nazi-looted 17th-century masterpiece

But in a New York ceremony unveiling the painting, Vernay family also accuses French government of dragging its feet on hundreds of other stolen artworks

By Catherine TRIOMPHE

The painting 'Portrait of a Seated Young Woman' by Thomas Couture stands on a easel during a restitution ceremony to the heirs of Jewish French politician Georges Mandel in Berlin on January 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

January 8, 2019, 4:44 pm

Germany returns Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish French resistance leader

Portrait belonging to family of Georges Mandel is among 1,500 found in possession of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-era art dealer

By AFP

Personnel from the FBI’s Art Crime Team hold a framed work by Marc Chagall, 'Othello and Desdemona,' prior to its return to the owners’ estate nearly 30 years after it was stolen. (FBI)

April 17, 2018, 8:58 am

Chagall painting recovered 30 years after theft

Family’s estate to auction ‘Othello and Desdemona,’ stolen in 1988 along with other artworks in what FBI say was inside job

By AFP

Hermann Goering speaking with a foreign journalist in his private garden in Augsburg , Germany, May 13, 1945. (Getty Images via JTA)

April 17, 2018, 8:18 am

Auction house offers antique Jewish Bible stolen by Goering

Nazi leader took rare 17th century volume from a Beaugency doctor during World War II; tome recovered by French soldiers in 1945

By JTA

Italian Carabinieri officer Massimo Maresca shows the first century AC Druso marble head during an interview in the Carabinieri barracks, Friday, September 1, 2017 (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

September 2, 2017, 4:18 am

Italy displays marble Roman head stolen in World War II

Sculpture depicting Roman Emperor Tiberius’ son Drusus was believed to have been first taken to Algeria, eventually moved to France, and in 2004, auctioned off

By AP

Museum of Fine Arts (Kunstmuseum) in Bern, May 8, 2014. (AFP/FABRICE COFFRINI)

June 27, 2017, 9:56 pm

German museum shows Nazi-looted artwork from recluse’s trove

Collection of paintings confiscated from Jews and found in home of Cornelius Gurlitt to be exhibited simultaneously in Bonn, Bern

By Agencies and TOI staff

Anne-Marie O'Connor, left, and Ora Ahimeir, just prior to a discussion as part of the Personal Pages: Meet the Authors series at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem's Old City, May 15, 2017. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)

May 16, 2017, 2:59 pm

At TOI event, bestselling authors present true stories of women of valor

Writers Anne-Marie O’Connor and Ora Ahimeir tackle women’s resilience during genocide in discussion at Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum

By Yaakov Schwartz

In this file photo taken Wednesday, April 13, 2016, Eli and Shuli Barzilai hold a copy of the Birds' Head Haggadah, the text read around Jewish dinner tables on the Passover holiday, in their home in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

April 10, 2017, 11:35 am

Jewish family renews fight for world’s oldest illustrated haggadah

13th-century Passover manuscript, owned by German Jewish lawmaker Ludwig Marum until he was taken by the Nazis, now housed in the Israel Museum

By Daniel Estrin

Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky, left, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (Wikimedia commons/kremlin.ru)

December 16, 2016, 7:43 pm

Did Russia meddle in recent US art theft legislation?

New congressionally approved bills provide immunity from seizure of foreign works on loan in the States. As one critic alleges the Hermitage had undue influence, is it just a case of jumping on the anti-Russia bandwagon?

By Rich Tenorio

The Amber Room of St. Petersburg's Catherine Palace in 1931. (Branson DeCou, public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

From the WebJune 11, 2016, 2:12 am

Could long-lost Amber Room be stashed in a Nazi bunker in Poland?

New York Times: Historian in northeast Poland believes he’s found missing Russian treasure stolen by Germany at end of World War II

Actress Helen Mirren attends the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, January 30, 2016. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

June 8, 2016, 8:07 am

Helen Mirren urges Senate on bill aiding return of Nazi stolen art

Actress calls for passing legislation to increase statute of limitations in cases of items taken from Jews during Holocaust

By JTA