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In 2021, the Bavarian State Painting Collections returned a medieval work to the heirs of Drey and his business partners, Ludwig and Friedrich Stern. [ 16 ] In 2021, Munich's Neue Pinakothek restituted Fischerboote bei Frauenchiemsee (1884) by the 19th-century Austrian painter Joseph Wopfner to the heirs of Nuremberg toy manufacturer and art ...
Restitution claim filed in Federal Court of New York against Bavaria (Bavaria State Painting collections) [88] [89] [90] In June 2021 Bavarian officials refused to refer the dispute to the national commission created to review claims of art lost in the Nazi era. [91] Edvard Munch "A summer's night on the beach" (1902) Alma Mahler-Werfel [92 ...
After the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, in January 1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter put an immediate freeze on the consulate program, [13] by withdrawing seven consular officers from Kiev who had been sent to the Ukrainian SSR in advance of the consulate opening, and ordering the expulsion of 17 Soviet diplomats who were to be attached ...
An independent German commission on Tuesday recommended that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky currently owned by the Bavarian state bank be returned to the heirs of a Jewish family that originally ...
New York City, the largest city in the United States, is home to the General Assembly of the United Nations, and all 195 member and observer states send permanent delegations. Nine diplomatic missions in New York City listed below are also formally accredited as each country's official embassy to the United States. There are 108 missions in the ...
Homburger died in New York in 1965. [6] In 2012 the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe restituted the painting "Portrait of an Ancestor" to the descendants of Dr. Paul Philipp Homburger (1882-1965). The painting was seized in July 1939 by the Nazi run Foreign Exchange Office of the Baden Regional Finance Office in Karlsruhe. [7] [8]
It housed art confiscated from Parisian Jews—more than 21,000 objects [9] —and about 2,000 works from the Bavarian State Painting Collections. [10] The collection of the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum (now the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg) was transported to a salt mine in the nearby town of Stassfurt, in order to protect it from Allied ...
Ernst Buchner (20 March 1892 – 3 June 1962) was a German museum administrator and art historian. A native of Munich, he was director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, a position in German arts administration second only to the head of the Berlin museum network.