Catherine Hickley
Kunsthalle Mannheim unveils €68m extension backed by German billionaire
Foundation of Hans-Werner Hector, one of the country's richest people, contributed €50m to the revamp
Dispute erupts over location of Kassel’s Documenta obelisk
Artist Olu Oguibe believes the city caved in to demands from the anti-immigration AfD, which opposes the monument
Gerhard Richter donates 18 works to provide permanent accommodation for the homeless
Sale aims to raise €1m to help buy 100 dwellings
Berlin’s Ethnological Museum returns Alaskan grave artefacts looted by explorer
The objects “do not belong in our museums”, says the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Germany presents code of conduct on handling colonial-era artefacts
Culture Minister says colonial past has been a blind spot for too long
Hamburg museum says its Benin bronzes could return to Nigeria—but not yet
Applied arts institution is showing the sculptures in a looted art exhibition
Damaged art undergoes intensive care in Berlin’s Bode Museum
The institution is using funds from a private foundation to restore works scarred by war
Käthe Kollwitz Museum finds new home in west Berlin
Its current venue will be leased to the new Museum of Exile from the end of 2019
Spark your wanderlust with a wander through Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie
New exhibition looks at how love of travel was a prominent feature of 19th-century German Romanticism
German researchers trace Jewish newspaper mogul’s vast Nazi-looted art collection
The Mosse Art Research Project, a cooperation with the German government, identifies eight works and launches online database
Berlin bans collector from exhibiting art in industrial district
Axel Haubrok is fighting zoning restrictions after buying the former premises of the chauffeur service for top East German officials
Canadians withdraw from Düsseldorf show about Jewish dealer Max Stern
Max Stern Foundation seeks reimbursement of costs from the German city
Germany to fund museum investigations into provenance of colonial-era artefacts
The German Lost Art Foundation, which also looks into Nazi-loot, will allocate the government grants
Documenta appoints Sabine Schormann as third director in less than a year
She will take over following last edition's €5.4m budget fiasco
Turkmenistan sends treasures to Berlin in diplomatic move
Bronze Age artefacts from historical region of Margiana go on show at the Neues Museum
Germany to pilot free-entry museums at Humboldt Forum
New coalition government waives charges for permanent collections in Berlin complex for first three years—but critics warn of consequences
Documenta appoints musical producer as interim manager amid budget debacle
Wolfgang Orthmayr to replace Annette Kulenkampff, who left before her contract ended
Kassel seeks three new 'Documenta professors'
Scholars will conduct research for a new institute of the quinquennial show based in the city
From Gerhard Richter to Dürer: Christie’s to showcase German art and collecting during Berlin Gallery Weekend
Exhibition targeted at Old Master collectors will not compete with the contemporary art event, auction house says
Cranach portrait stolen almost 80 years ago returns to heirs of Jewish banker
Christie’s to auction portrait of John Frederick the Magnanimous in New York next month
Hartmut Dorgerloh nominated to head Berlin’s Humboldt Forum
If appointed, Dorgerloh, who currently manages the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, will replace the three founding directors
Beer and bread rolls for a vandalised sculpture in Münster
City residents aim to raise €1.2 million for Nicole Eisenman’s Sketch for a Fountain
Dresden receives gift of 1,200 contemporary works from private collector Erika Hoffmann
Gift includes Polke, Warhol, Twombly, Emin, Tillmans
East German ‘arseholes’ are reappraised
The painter Georg Baselitz once profanely dismissed artists behind the Iron Curtain—but their work is now experiencing a long-overdue rediscovery
Widow of Hitler’s art dealer, Erhard Göpel, bequeaths Max Beckmann works to Berlin
Initial research into provenance 'gave no concrete cause for suspicion that these works were looted', Berlin State Museums says
Berlin Museums chief calls for rules on restitution of colonial artefacts
Hermann Parzinger has global support for the equivalent of Washington Principles on Nazi-confiscated art for objects from former colonies
Düsseldorf gears up for the battle of the photography festivals
Düsseldorf Photo Weekend kicks off its seventh edition on 16 February
Estate of Nazi propaganda film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, donated to Berlin museums
Trove of photographs, films, manuscripts and letters date back to the 1920s
Germany to set up help desk for victims of abuse in creative industries
Announcement comes ahead of Berlin Film Festival which will have sexual harassment, abuse and discrimination in the performing arts as central theme
Rubens and the works that inspired him brought together at Städel Museum
Flemish master had access to art from across the ages and assiduously reworked drawings by other artists