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Restitution request to Musée d'Art Moderne de Strasbourg [291] Restitution ordered by court after legal battle 11 January 1999. [292] Fernand Léger La Femme en rouge et vert oil painting, 1914 MNR R 2 P Collection Leonce Rosenberg Restitution request to musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou: Restituted to the heirs in February 1999 ...
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 ...
In November 1938, amid the escalating anti-Semitic violence in the city, Frankfurt's Nazi mayor forced Goldschmidt-Rothschild to sell his entire art collection to the city's museums. Following the end of World War II, Maximilian's grandson, then serving in the American military, sought the restitution of his family's collection.
From the beginning of the occupation, the German embassy in Paris, and its representative, Otto Abetz, under the pretext of "securing" art, organized major seizures of art collection. [20] In September 1940, the responsibility for plundering artworks of Jewish art collectors shifted to the nazi looting organisation known as the Einsatzstab ...
Mondex Corporation is a Toronto-based company for the restitution of art and cultural artifacts looted during the Holocaust era. [1] [2] The company advocates on behalf of heirs to recover stolen art, [3] [4] and its practices have led to changes in restitution law and practices in various countries. [5] [6] Mondex was founded in 1993 by James ...
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 ...
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 ...
After the disbandment of the BHG, the database and accompanying website they compiled came under the management of NIOD's Expertise Center for Restitution, as of 2018. [23] [24] [25] In 2020 a Dutch commission found the Netherlands' art restitution panel showed "too little empathy" to victims of Nazi aggression and sided too often with museums ...