Egon Schiele Masterpieces Restituted To Heirs Of Cabaret Performer
Seven significant artworks by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele have been restituted to the family of the Jewish art collector Fritz Grünbaum.
21 September 2023
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Piet Mondrian: Philadelphia Museum In Ownership Dispute – Banksy Releases T-Shirt To Support Colston Four – More Cornelius Gurlitt Nazi Restitution
Piet Mondrian: PMA In Ownership Dispute – Banksy Releases T-Shirt To Support Colston Four – More Cornelius Gurlitt Nazi Restitution
14 December 2021
London Dealer Richard Nagy Ordered To Return Stolen Egon Schiele Drawings
Two works on paper by the Secessionist artist Egon Schiele stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis in the late 1930s have been ordered to be restituted to the heirs of an Austrian Holocaust victim.
6 April 2018
Will Liz Taylor’s Van Gogh Sold In 2012 For £10m Flip For £50m?
Liz Taylor’s Van Gogh Vue de l’asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy is back on the market again after selling in an auction at Christie’s in February 2012 for £10,121,250.
22 March 2018
Lucas Cranach Painting Stolen By The Nazis To Be Auctioned
A painting stolen by the Nazis over 80 years ago by Lucas Cranach the Elder is to be auctioned at Christie’s.
21 March 2018
Nazi-looted Art UK Government Renews Commitment To Fair Restitution
Stronger measures to return Nazi-looted art to its original owners will be called for by the UK Government at the first European conference dedicated to the issue in five years.
28 July 2017
Stolen Paul Klee Painting Nazi Restitution Case Settled After 26 Years
Germany’s longest-running legal court case involving Nazi-looted art has settled with the claimant.
27 July 2017
London’s National Gallery Refuse Restitution Claims By Henri Matisse Painting’s Descendants
London’s National Gallery says it will not be giving the descendants of Henri Matisse’s model Greta Moll a work in their collection claimed… Read More
10 September 2016
MultiBillion Dollar Art Swag Stashed Away By Sock Puppets In Switzerland
The controversial Panama Papers, in which a cache of leaked documents revealed the true extent of various
15 April 2016
Contentious Nahmad Modigliani Masterpiece: Geneva storage Facility Raided By Authorities
Back in 2014 Artlyst reported that Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man with a Cane, a 1918 painting that was allegedly stolen… Read More
11 April 2016
El Greco Masterpiece Stolen By The Nazis Returned To Rightful Owners
A masterpiece by El Greco has been returned to the rightful owners by The Commission for Looted Art in Europe, and Art… Read More
24 March 2015
Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Has Restituted Eight Works To Heirs
Eight artworks have been restituted to the heirs of the Jewish publisher Rudolf Mosse by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,… Read More
15 February 2015
Juan Gris Painting Embroiled In Nazi Restitution Case
A long-standing restitution dispute between Germany’s Kunstsammlung NRW and the heirs of the Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim, regarding the… Read More
18 December 2014
Kunstmuseum Bern Releases First Details Of The Gurlitt ‘Munich Art Trove’
The Kunstmuseum Bern has released a preliminary list that begins to itemise some of the works in their controversial Gurlitt… Read More
28 November 2014
Kainer Heirs Sue UBS Over Nazi-Looted Degas
According to the New York Times; the descendants of Jewish collectors Ludwig and Margret Kainer, whose fortune, and art collection… Read More
21 October 2014
Nazi Loot To Be Returned By Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum
An intricate silver-gilt and enamel salt cellar is one of the 500 silverware items, believed to be worth in excess… Read More
20 October 2014
Nahmad Modigliani Masterpiece vs Mondex The Nazi Restitution Repo Squad
Let’s face it everyone hates the Nazis! Even after 76 years the Third Reich still evokes a nauseating feeling amongst… Read More
27 August 2014
Art Collector Cornelius Gurlitt To Return Claimed Stolen Degenerate Masterpieces
Cornelius Gurlitt, the elderly son of a Nazi era art dealer has come to a co-operative agreement with German authorities to resolve
8 April 2014
Gustav Klimt Nazi Restitution And The Blockbuster Hollywood Film
A new film covering the subject of Nazi looted art is about to go into pre-production in Hollywood. This time… Read More
6 April 2014
Tate Britain Caught Up In Nazi Restitution Case Over Looted Hungarian Constable
Tate Britain is to return a painting by Constable, which was looted from a Hungarian collector by the Nazis, during… Read More
29 March 2014
The Forgotten Heroes That Saved Europe From Nazi Cultural Devastation
The Monuments Men is a story about the forgotten heroes who saved Europe from cultural devastation during World War II…. Read More
11 August 2013
Hungary Is Powerless To Keep Stolen Art From Nazi Restitution
International pressure is mounting for Hungary to offer a settlement to the descendants of the Jewish industrialist Baron Mór Lipót… Read More
3 February 2013
Is Edvard Munch’s The Scream A Case For Nazi Restitution
A version of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, which broke all auction records for a work of art when it was… Read More
14 October 2012