Nazi-looted art

Kandinsky painting returned to Jewish family as Netherlands shifts approach to looted art

The decision reverses a 2018 ruling against the descendants of Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann, who died in Auschwitz.

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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.

Amsterdam mayor wants state to return $22 million Nazi-looted painting now in the city’s museum

Displaying the Kandinsky artwork in the museum outweighs the interests of its rightful owners, according to a Dutch restitution body.

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

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Nazi-looted Picasso up for sale by heirs of German-Jewish banker

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National Gallery of Art will return Nazi-looted Picasso drawing to heirs of German-Jewish banker

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Swiss museum agrees to pay restitution to heirs of Nazi-looted art

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Nazi-looted art returned to heirs of German-Jewish art collector

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Germany returns Nazi-looted painting to heirs of French art collector

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Picasso painting sold by family escaping the Nazis can remain at the Met

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