A 17th-century painting looted by Nazis from the home of a Jewish Belgian art collector is being returned to his family by ...
New guidelines agreed to last year by 21 nations (including the U.S.), and a recent French law, may make it easier for Jewish families to claim ownership of artworks that they believe were sold under ...
Lilly Cassirer's descendants "describe the painting, which once hung in Cassirer's parlor in her German home ... For now, the ruling is a major victory for the Cassirer family and Lilly ...
The author of the California legislation, Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, D-Encino, said Monday’s order by the Supreme Court “is a victory ... and return the Nazi looted art they are holding ...
(JTA) – Christie’s has announced that it will not follow through with plans to hold a second auction of jewelry from an estate that was partially built on Nazi plunder. The announcement on ...
Hundreds of thousands of works of art were confiscated by the German military. Art that was seen as representing the National Socialist Party’s accepted view of German national heritage was designated ...
Historian Jonathan Petropoulos investigates the life of Bruno Lohse and his role in the Nazi looting operation, interviewing Lohse himself, as well as curators, art investigators, Lohse’s ...
Few who see Picasso's "The Actor "at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art know its complicated history. Paul Leffmann, a German Jewish businessman, sold it in 1938. "It used to hang in the home ...