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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 ...
Galerie van Diemen was a commercial art gallery founded in 1918 in Berlin (Germany), and which had branches in The Hague, Amsterdam and New York. [1] Under the Nazis, the German branch was Aryanized and its Jewish owners forced into exile and murdered.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
After the defeat of Nazi Germany, Welz was arrested and investigated for his role in looting art from Jewish collections. [11] [12]The Americans appointed the provisional administrator Fritz Hoefner for Welz's Salzburg art dealership, who reported Welz to the public prosecutor's office of the People's Court in Linz on June 26, 1947, for the "Aryanization" of a villa in St. Gilgen, the Würthle ...
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.