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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The conference was hosted by the United States Department of State and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. [2] It assembled participants from a 1995 New York symposium, The Spoils of War—World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property, along with others, [2] and built on the Nazi Gold conference which had been held in London in December 1997.
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.
The Artistic Recovery Commission (Commission de récupération artistique, or CRA) was a French public body of the Ministry of Education created on November 24, 1944, in order to process and return artworks and books plundered by the Nazis during the Occupation of France by Germany during World War II, discovered by the Allies after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
People who had their art collections (in part or whole) appropriated or confiscated by the Nazi regime. Pages in category "Subjects of Nazi art appropriations" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total.