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Dix’s art was deemed an “insult to the German heroes of the Great War.” Elsewhere in the exhibition, one could visit the "Insanity Room,” which displayed abstract paintings.
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 ...
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 ...
The renewed scrutiny comes as a result of the U.S. State Department's latest best practices for handling Nazi-looted art, published in March. These expand the Washington Conference Principles on ...
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 ...
Fast Forward Nazi ‘Looted Art’ Hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt Launches Web Site Image by getty images By JTA February 17, 2014 ...
Historian Jonathan Petropoulos investigates the life of former Nazi art dealer Bruno Lohse. Historian Jonathan Petropoulos investigates the life of Bruno Lohse and his role in the Nazi looting ...
German tax inspectors discovered Cornelius Gurlitt's art collection during a raid on his Munich home in 2012, after a customs inspection on a train from Zurich triggered a tax evasion probe.
Another alarming development is the narrowing of jurisdiction in Nazi-looted art cases, contrary to Congress’s intent. In 2021’s Federal Republic of Germany v.
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 ...