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Nazi-Looted Painting Found Decades Ago Among Amsterdam’s Street Trash Will Be Returned to Jewish Dealer’s Heirs
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (321+ words) A painting that once belonged to the prominent Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker has been successfully identified and will be returned to his heirs. Amsterdam resident Robert van der Hoek saw the painting decades ago on the side of…...
Dutch Commission Recommends New Guardianship for ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (389+ words) Guardianship of some 3500 objects, whose rightful owners have yet to be found be found, may be transferred from the government to a Jewish foundation A committee appointed by the Dutch government has come up with a plan for a state-owned…...
See Inside the Long-Lost Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton Album Full of WW2-Era Photographs
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (166+ words) The album had spent decades as a cherished family heirloom. It had been stored in a cupboard in the living room, Hoppen said, and the family would look through it together at Christmas. Miller trained Haupt on how to process…...
Pinakothek in Munich Returns Nazi-Looted Painting by Lesser Ury to Jewish Heirs
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (244+ words) The Pinakotheken in Munich will return a painting by the German painter Lesser Ury that was auctioned under duress during the Nazi regime in Bavaria. First reported by Monopol, the news signals a renewed push for restitution within Bavaria’s museum…...
Paul Klee Painting Once Owned by Walter Benjamin Thwarted from US Debut Because of Mideast War
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (472+ words) The work is currently still at the Israel Museum, which had agreed to loan it to a show at the Jewish Museum in New York. A Paul Klee painting famously owned by the philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin is…...
Matthiesen Gallery Files Lawsuit Against Convicted Con Man, Jill Newhouse Gallery and Top Collector Jon Landau Over Gustave Courbet Painting
9+ mon, 5+ day ago (507+ words) The Matthiesen Gallery has filed a lawsuit against a convicted con man, an artist, another Old Masters art gallery and a top art collector alleging fraud, breach of contract, and four other counts over the Gustave Courbet painting Mother and…...
Sotheby’s to Sell René Magritte Work Bought by Family of Nazi-Executed WWII Resistance Fighter
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (20+ words) The nude was acquired directly from the artist by the family of the World War II resistance heroine Suzanne Spaak....
Nazi-Looted Painting in Argentina May Be by Another Artist After All
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (263+ words) The drama surrounding a Nazi-looted painting found in an Argentine home in August continued last week as an expert cast doubt on the work’s attribution. In the press, the painting was widely attributed to Giuseppe Ghislandi, a painter associated with…...
Rural Danish Art Museum Acquires Painting by Artemisia Gentileschi
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (449+ words) An art museum in rural Denmark has acquired Artemisia Gentileschi‘s Susanna and the Elders (1644–48), a large work by the Italian Baroque artist. The Nivaagaard Collection said Susanna and the Elders was “the most important addition made to the collection…...
Heirs of Jewish Collector Urge Appeals Court to Reconsider Claim to Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (342+ words) The heirs of German Jewish banker and art collector Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy have called on the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Thursday to revive their lawsuit seeking the return of a Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers painting…...