art restitution

Amsterdam to return Kandinsky painting to Jewish family following public outcry

The Dutch capital argued that the public interest of seeing the $22 million painting outweighed the lawful owners’ claims.

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 27, 2021 12:39 pm

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Bernardo Strozzi’s "Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well" at the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, the Netherlands. (Museum de Fundatie)

Dutch museum will pay $240K to owners of Nazi-looted painting it won’t return

The Netherlands has a divergent and controversial policy that results in non-restitution citing the public’s interest in access to culture.

April 20, 2021 10:56 am

The painting "Rosebushes under the Trees" by Gustav Klimt hangs at the Musée d'Orsay museum in Paris, March 15, 2021. (Courtesy of the French Culture Ministry)

French government to return Klimt painting looted from Austrian Jew in 1938

The return of the artwork shows “our commitment to the duty of justice and reparation,” the French culture minister said.

March 17, 2021 9:10 am

Dutch government criticizes country’s own Holocaust restitution policy that has blocked families from return of stolen art

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 8, 2020 2:32 pm

A Jewish family sold this Kandinsky painting to survive the Nazis. Amsterdam is keeping it anyway.

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 18, 2019 4:38 pm

Netherlands museums will return 2 Nazi-looted paintings to Holocaust survivor’s family

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 31, 2019 12:10 pm

Nazi-looted Renoir painting returned to last heir of Jewish art dealer

September 14, 2018 12:43 pm

Heirs of Jewish art collector join with German university to recover lost works

March 9, 2017 3:08 pm

Hermann Goering’s catalog detailing plundered art is published

September 30, 2015 4:29 pm

Report slams U.S. museums’ handling of Holocaust-era restitution claims

June 25, 2015 3:35 pm

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