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Art museum returning painting to heirs of Jewish owner after it was seized by Nazis

The Art Institute of Chicago has agreed to restitute a painting in its collection to the heirs of a Jewish art collector who was persecuted by the Nazis in occupied Netherlands.

Art museum returning painting to heirs of Jewish owner after it was seized by Nazis

The Art Institute of Chicago has agreed to restitute a painting in its collection to the heirs of a Jewish art collector who was persecuted by the Nazis in occupied Netherlands.

Nazi-looted painting surfaced in a real estate listing must be returned to its rightful heirs, judge rules

The 18th century canvas was one of more than 1,100 pieces collected by Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker by the 1940s.

Nazi-Looted Painting in Real Estate Listing Must Be Returned

The 18th-century painting “Portrait of a Lady” was stolen by a high-ranking Nazi in the 1940s. Last year, it surfaced in a real estate listing in Argentina.

Painting looted by Nazis to be returned to collector's heir

The painting was among the artworks looted and sold under duress to Nazi officials from art dealer Jacques Goudstikker after Adolf Hitler's Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940.

Lawsuits filed over Nazi-looted art displayed in museums in Los Angeles, Auschwitz

Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime orchestrated the largest art theft in world history, seizing over 600,000 works of art across Europe from Jewish families, collectors and mus...

Nazi-looted painting must be returned to Jewish art dealers heir, Argentina court rules

Nazi-looted painting must be returned to Jewish art dealers heir, Argentina court rules

LA Federation sues museum for custody of looted paintings once hoarded by Hermann Göring

Separate suits were filed Monday under a 2024 law that allows heirs to refile previously dismissed claims. -- The post LA Federation sues museum for custody of looted paintings on...

Renoir museum theft exposes another side of fine art risk

Two paintings remain unrecovered after a €9 million raid, while recovered works raise questions over damage during a theft

Eigentumsgeschichte von Kunstwerken: Das Erbe, das die AfD verdecken will

Provenienzforschung befördere ein unangemessenes „Schuldgefühl“, findet die AfD. Also sollte niemand nach geraubtem Kulturgut fragen? Wie die Forschung dagegenhält. mehr...

Renoir’s paintings have been stolen again. Their history may never be found.

The timing was as swift as Auguste Renoir’s brushstrokes. In the pre-dawn darkness of Sept. 8, thieves in camouflage and helmets took less than three minutes to saw through a wire-...

Prompted by new California and U.S. laws, two new lawsuits demand return of Nazi-looted art

Two lawsuits were filed this week in California demanding prominent museums relinquish artwork seized by Nazi officials.

This Is Looting by Another Name

Our cultural heritage is being sold off for parts.

New laws trigger a fresh legal fight over Nazi-looted art in Los Angeles and Auschwitz museums

Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California staking their claims to Nazi-looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prom...

Argentine court orders return of Nazi-looted painting to Jewish collector’s heir

(JTA) — BUENOS AIRES – A Dutch journalist hunting for art treasures belonging to an Amsterdam Jewish art dealer spent years trying to get answers from Patricia Kadgien, the daughte...

Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims sue California museum over Nazi-looted art

Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum holds 16th-century paintings stolen by the Nazis during the second world warJewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed tw...

Argentine court orders return of Nazi-looted painting to Jewish collector’s heir

“Portrait of a Lady,” discovered on a Mar del Plata real estate listing, will be restituted to Marei von Saher, sole heir of Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker. -- The po...

LA Federation sues museum for custody of looted paintings once hoarded by Hermann Göring

(JTA) — The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and the heirs to a Jewish artist filed suit against a California museum to recover a pair of 16th-century oil paintings seized by the N...

How AI Tech Helps Track French Art Looted in WWII

A new AI software program is helping provenance researchers analyze records so that art stolen by the Nazis during World War II can be returned to its rightful owners.

Законным владельцам вернули картину Джакомо Черути, украденную нацистами. Ее нашли на фото из дома бывшего помощника Гер...

Суд аргентинского города Мар-дель-Плата обязал вернуть картину «Портрет дамы», которую нацисты украли в годы Второй мировой войны у еврейского арт-дилера Жака Гудстиккера, его насл...

Nazi-Looted Kandinsky Painting Sells for $42 Million at Auction

“The Colorful Life,” a 1907 work by the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, had been returned to the original owners’ heirs in 2023.

In Argentijnse woonkamer opgedoken schilderij terug naar erven Goudstikker

Argentine couple to return Nazi-looted painting to rightful owner

The late-baroque Portrait of a Lady was lost for 80 years until it was spotted in photographs of a house for sale near Buenos Aires.

Stolen Renoirs recovered in France; six suspects in custody

Two Renoir paintings stolen last month in southern France were recovered this week, reports Le Monde. Swiped from a museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, the Madame Colonna Romano and Jeune fe...