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Restitution request to German authorities after discover in the Gurlitt stash in Munich. [122] Restituted to the heirs in 2017. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Der Wildbach Strubb bei Ischi, oil painting, 1831 [123] Hermann Eissler Restitution request to German authorities after discover in the Gurlitt stash in Munich. [124] 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 ...
In 1937, Nazi Germany under Hitler condemned modern art as "degenerate" (not fitting to be called art in Hitler's view) and confiscated it from museums all over Germany. A travelling Degenerate Art Exhibition was set up where some of these pieces were displayed to the public to show their so-called "degenerate" nature. The Nazis set up a system ...
Restitution of confiscated artworks 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 ]
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 ...
Paul Cassirer, a German Jewish art dealer, played a key role in bringing van Gogh artworks to Germany before the war. [40] [41] While French museums owned only three van Goghs before WWII, van Gogh was, according to Felix Krämer, co-curator of the 2019 exhibition Making Van Gogh: A German Love Story, the most popular modern artist in Germany ...
Other restitution laws were the Gesetz zur Wiedergutmachung nationalsozialistischen Unrechts im öffentlichen Dienst (BWGöD) for (former) employees of public service institutions of 11 May 1951 and the Bundesgesetz zur Regelung der rückerstattungsrechtlichen Geldverbindlichkeiten des Deutschen Reiches und gleichgestellter Rechtsträger (Bundesrückerstattungsgesetz, BRüG) of 19 July 1957.
Jean Metzinger, 1913, En Canot (Im Boot), oil on canvas, 146 cm × 114 cm (57 in × 45 in), exhibited at Moderni Umeni, S.V.U. Mánes, Prague, 1914, acquired in 1916 by Georg Muche at the Galerie Der Sturm, confiscated by the Nazis c. 1936, displayed at the Degenerate Art show in Munich, and missing ever since Albert Gleizes, 1912, Landschaft bei Paris, Paysage près de Paris, Paysage de ...