German private owner reaches settlement with Jewish art historian’s heirs

“Bastian House” will give visitors an overview of what to expect on Museum Island

Joint letter urges parliament not to appoint far-right party member as chair of culture committee

Organisers condemn “murderous propaganda of all right-wing parties”

Funding will benefit Potsdam’s Sanssouci and Berlin’s Charlottenburg palaces

Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art is one of the world's first of its kind

Artist’s art to be ousted by stories of exile

Site gives information on international regulations and protected German heritage

Kassel city and the state of Hesse pledge to secure long-term liquidity

Conference at London's National Gallery this week looks at how the process can be accelerated

German investigators find 15 paintings and drawings in Leverkusen, north of Cologne

The abstract images were inspired by documentary photographs of Nazi death camp

Police are investigating a burglary in the latest incident of crime at festival

Kunstmuseum Bern has taken possession of first works from controversial collection of Nazi-era art due to go on show in November

The former British Museum chief, appointed as founding director in 2015, will steer the project to completion

Owner says Andreas Achenbach’s Sicilian Landscape was bought in a “normal gallery transaction”

City aims to keep Documenta experience alive in five-year hiatus between shows

“Unity seesaw” is to be unveiled in 2019 in front of the city palace

Preserved by Saxon elders and plundered by Stalin’s Red Army, textiles return to view for first time since Second World War

American Numismatic Society purchased the coins with aim of tracing original owner

Building in Unter den Linden expected to open mid-2018

German government researchers say another 150 works in the collection may have been looted

The duo’s Scapegoating Pictures are part of an exhibition marking 500th anniversary of the Reformation

German baking company agrees settlement with heirs of Emma Budge in fourth restitution in a year

Research into post-war seizures of art in East Germany could spark international restitution claims

New barrier at East Side Gallery heritage site will keep tourists back

The proto-scientific craft has long been misconstrued as merely an attempt to produce gold

The Bright Stone of Honour and the Tomb of Marceau will go on show in Cologne this week

Wilhelm Hack Museum acquires The Judgement of Paris from heir

Spanning 3000 years, the exhibition covers the Egyptian origins of alchemy to its influence on contemporary artists such as Koons