Nazi-Looted Hans Wertinger Painting Finally Restituted To Heirs
A Nazi-looted painting by Hans Wertinger has been restituted to the heirs of the Jewish art dealers Isaac Rosenbaum and… Read More
18 August 2015
A Nazi-looted painting by Hans Wertinger has been restituted to the heirs of the Jewish art dealers Isaac Rosenbaum and… Read More
18 August 2015
The heirs of Paul Rosenberg have confirmed the unconditional restitution of Henri Matisse’s ‘Femme Assise’, discovered in the Munich home of… Read More
15 May 2015
The German Minister for Culture and the Media, Monika Grütters, has announced that a fourth artwork from the Gurlitt trove… Read More
9 April 2015
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
Several art works and objects seized in 1938 following the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany from Baron… Read More
12 March 2015
Gustav Klimt’s murals, The Beethoven Frieze should not be returned to the family of the original Jewish owners, an Austrian… Read More
9 March 2015
There seems to be no end in sight for the saga of Cornelius Gurlitt’s ‘Munich Art Trove’. The collection was… Read More
24 February 2015
After the Kunstmuseum Bern has released a preliminary list that began to itemise some of the works in their controversial… Read More
5 December 2014
The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has been criticised by the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) over their lack of… Read More
15 November 2014
The family heirs of Cornelius Gurlitt, the German recluse and art collector who was discovered to have a hoard of… Read More
14 November 2014
The Bavarian culture ministry has announced in a statement that the taskforce charged with discovering the rightful heirs to the… Read More
10 November 2014
The German Government has approved funds for a center to search for and return art looted by the Nazis. The… Read More
4 November 2014
The Badische Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe, Germany has recently announced that it has identified seven works of art within its collection,… Read More
28 October 2014
On November 5th, Christie’s is auctioning a 1910 Schiele watercolor ‘Town on the Blue River’. The auction house is doing… Read More
28 October 2014
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
The Gustav Klimt painting of Gertrud Loew is at the centre of an ongoing ownership dispute that may be resolved… Read More
12 September 2014
The first painting to be confirmed, as stolen by the Nazis, has emerged from the Gurlitt hoard. It is a… Read More
16 June 2014
Cornelius Gurlitt the son of a notorious Nazi art dealer whose secret collection included many Third Reich looted pieces, has died in Germany age 81.
6 May 2014
A Norwegian museum has agreed to the restitution of a $20m (£12m) Matisse painting stolen by the Nazis from the… Read More
22 March 2014
Now there is no place to hide from the grip of Nazi restitution! The Getty Research Institute has announced the… Read More
25 January 2013
Munich museum refuses to return Paul Klee painting, seized from family by Nazis to be displayed in 1937 ‘degenerate art’… Read More
29 March 2012
4,259 art posters finally to be returned to owner’s family after they were forcefully seized by the Nazis The collection of… Read More
19 March 2012
International Archive Established in World’s First Nazi Plunder Catalogue The National Archives and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe… Read More
5 May 2011
Ten years after the Gurlitt Hoard (“Schwabing Art Trove”) hit the headlines worldwide, two important watercolours by Otto Dix will go under the hammer at Ketterer Kunst
13 May 2022
The Modern Art Museum MAM Shanghai has announced Shai Baitel as its inaugural Artistic Director. The newly opened state of the art museum located at the heart of Shanghai’s cultural mile along the Huangpu River is a premier institution for contemporary art with a global and multidisciplinary approach.
9 February 2021
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
Oh, what a year 2016 has been! Many of us won’t be sorry to see the end of it, although not to be overly pessimistic, 2017 will certainly have its challenges with both the Brexit economy and the new US President. Yes, the one with the bad haircut! On the Art front there was plenty to keep us entertained, amused and informed and here are the year’s highs and lows:
29 December 2016
A newly discovered painting by Claude Monet has come to light in the Gurlitt Nazi restitution case. The landscape was… Read More
6 September 2014
In a recent ruling, the UK’s Spoliation Advisory Panel has upheld the retention of three significant paintings by Peter Paul Rubens…
25 March 2024
Hanover, Germany – In a gesture of resolution, the city of Hanover has returned a painting “Tête de Femme” (1917) by the renowned Italian Modernist painter/sculptor Amedeo Modigliani
17 February 2024
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
Upstairs, on the third floor of the Ashmolean, is a show that will quietly break your heart. Entitled Pissarro: Father of Impressionism (12 June 2022), this major exhibition of works drawn from the Ashmolean’s collections as well as international loans, spans Pissarro’s entire career.
31 March 2022