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Martin van Heemskerck, Two altar wings with pictures of the donors: Richard Neumann. restitution claim to the city of Krems an der Donau. In 2007 the descendants of Neumann received back two paintings by "Kremser Schmidt" Martin Johann Schmidt, which had come into the possession of the city of Krems an der Donau illegally through the ...
New York prosecutors on Friday returned two pieces of art they say were stolen by Nazis from a Jewish performer and collector murdered in the Holocaust. The artworks were surrendered by museums in ...
Pieces of art looted by the Nazis can still be found in Russian/Soviet [49] and American institutions: the Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed a list of 393 paintings that have gaps in their provenance during the Nazi Era, the Art Institute of Chicago has posted a listing of more than 500 works "for which links in the chain of ownership for the ...
A Claude Monet pastel painting stolen by Nazis from a Jewish family during World War II, which vanished for decades only to show up with a Louisiana art dealer, was returned Wednesday in New ...
Seven drawings by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele have been removed from arts institutions across the country, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and returned to the heirs of ...
From 1933–1945, an estimated 20% of all artwork in Europe was plundered by Nazis. [1] All property owned by Jews, including artworks, were seized as part of the Holocaust. [2] [3] [4] Van Gogh's many Jewish collectors, who had played an important role in the popularisation and dissemination of van Gogh's work, were targeted.
For Jewish heirs seeking to reclaim art stolen from their families during the Holocaust, decades passed before the extent of Nazi looting in Europe was widely acknowledged and documented and steps ...
The inventory represents an official record documenting the seizure of artworks that were designated as 'degenerate' by the Nazi regime. It is believed that the compilation of the inventory served as a final record after the sale and disposal of the seized art was concluded in the summer of 1941.