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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 ...
Organizations with information on a piece's history, museums in particular, often have a disincentive to share information that could assist in an heir's claim. [7] For organized looting, see: Art theft and looting by Nazi Germany; Art theft and looting by Japan; Art theft and looting by the Soviet Union
Nazi plunder (German: Raubkunst) was organized stealing of art and other items which occurred as a result of the organized looting of European countries during the time of the Nazi Party in Germany. Jewish property was looted beginning in 1933 in Germany and was a key part of the Holocaust .
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 ...
A movement by Jewish heirs to reclaim valuable Nazi-looted art scattered worldwide has grown exponentially. And Manhattan's courts, both federal and state, are considered to be among the few ...
In 2018, a New York judge awarded two Nazi-looted drawings "to the heirs of an Austrian Holocaust victim". According to the BBC, the drawings, "Woman Hiding Her Face" and "Woman in a Black Pinafore", by Egon Schiele, "will go to the heirs" of Fritz Grünbaum, who was killed in the Dachau concentration camp in 1941. Art dealer Richard Nagy ...
A Swiss museum says its delighted to receive more than $1 billion worth of paintings from a Nazi-art hoarder, but it also says it has some questions. Cornelius Gurlitt inherited several paintings ...
The collection attracted international interest in 2013 when it was announced as a sensational 2012 "Nazi loot discovery" by the media as a result of actions by officials of Augsburg in Cornelius Gurlitt's apartment in Schwabing, Munich, investigating Gurlitt on suspicion (later shown to be unfounded) of possible tax evasion.