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Restitution request to German authorities after discover in the Gurlitt stash in Munich. [120] Restituted to the heirs in 2017. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Der Wildbach Strubb bei Ischi, oil painting, 1831 [121] Hermann Eissler Restitution request to German authorities after discover in the Gurlitt stash in Munich. [122] Restituted to the ...
Menzel v. List was a landmark restitution case involving Nazi looted art. It was filed by the widow Erna Menzel whose art collection was seized from the Menzel apartment in Brussels in 1941 after the Jewish family fled the Nazis. Menzel's attempt to recover her artworks through litigation was the first such case in the United States and is ...
The remaining 724 were assessed according to a "traffic light" system: green for works "proven or highly likely not to be Nazi-looted art" (28 items); yellow for "provenance during the period between 1933 and 1945 is not entirely clear; there are gaps in the provenance", i.e., requiring further investigation (650 items); and red for works ...
The Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, formally the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art and sometimes referred to as the Washington Declaration, is a statement concerning the restitution of art confiscated by the Nazi regime in Germany before and during World War II. [1]
Agathe Saulmann's daughter, Nina de Marez Oyens, took up her mother's restitution claims and researched the art collection until the 1960s. [14] In response to her 1962 inquiry at the auction house of Rudolf Neumeister, who had acquired Weinmüller's auction house in the late 1950s, she was told that all records had been burned during the war.
Subjects of Nazi art appropriations (74 P) Pages in category "Art and cultural repatriation after World War II" The following 96 pages are in this category, out of 96 total.
Rolf Nikolaus Cornelius Gurlitt (28 December 1932 – 6 May 2014) was a German art collection owner. The son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, an art gallery director and Nazi-era dealer of looted art who worked for Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring, Gurlitt inherited from his father a collection of over 1,400 artworks known as the Gurlitt trove or Gurlitt Collection, a small number (less than 20) of ...
Daisy was born in 1890; she had been married to Wilhelm Hellmann since 1912, with whom she had a large art collection of medieval art, old masters, contemporary paintings and more. Klara, born in 1901, was married twice and lived in the household of Jenny Steiner in Zedlitzgasse in Vienna until 1938.