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The Nazi penchant for playing the role of art critics and connoisseurs, combined with the party's aim of attaining complete control over all aspects of German life, resulted in a far more heavy ...
Fighting for the return of Nazi-looted art 06:31. Few who see Picasso's "The Actor "at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art know its complicated history.
Few who see Picasso's "The Actor "at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art know its complicated history. Paul Leffmann, a German Jewish businessman, sold it in 1938. "It used to hang in the home ...
Despite efforts by the U.S. and Allies to return Nazi-looted art after World War II, and renewed efforts since the late 1990s, over 100,000 works of art still have not been returned to their ...
Cornelius Gurlitt, whose stash of art in Munich was revealed to the world last fall, has launched a web site. In English and German, Gurlitt explains that he is both duty bound “to preserve and ...
I first met Dr. Bruno Lohse in June 1998, and I remember every single detail. You know, after all, it's not every day you meet an old Nazi. We arranged to have lunch together, and he said he would ...
The first case about Nazi-looted art to go to trial in the United States may set a precedent for similar claims, says an attorney for the heir of a Viennese art collector murdered in the Holocaust ...
Some 150 art works from a massive trove amassed by a German collector during the Nazi era went on public display for the first time on Wednesday in the Swiss capital, amid lingering questions ...
These expand the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art set forth in 1998. "The Kunsthaus welcomes this stance, but very much regrets that, with respect to our visitors, ...
Despite efforts by the U.S. and Allies to return Nazi-looted art after World War II, and renewed efforts since the late 1990s, over 100,000 works of art still have not been returned to their ...
Historian Jonathan Petropoulos investigates the life of Bruno Lohse and his role in the Nazi looting operation, interviewing Lohse himself, as well as curators, art investigators, Lohse’s ...