Catherine Hickley

Catherine Hickley is the Museums & Heritage Editor of The Art Newspaper

Court ruling forces German convent to exhibit Nazi artist

Public authority loses appeal to remove from display the works of Erich Klahn, which feature swastikas and other Third Reich symbols

Renaissance-influenced artist Joe Ramirez projects 'animated paintings' onto gold

With backing from Wim Wenders, first presentation of “Gold Projections” coincides with Berlin Film Festival

Right-wing protesters disrupt unveiling of Syrian artist’s installation in Dresden

Manaf Halbouni’s "Monument" to Aleppo comprises three wrecked buses by the city’s Frauenkirche

Dr Oetker returns Van Dyck portrait looted by Göring

German food company makes restitution to heir of Jewish dealer Jacques Goudstikker

Who is Hasso Plattner whose spectacular museum has opened near Berlin?

The software billionaire gives us a tour of the Barberini Museum in Potsdam

German baking company Dr Oetker returns painting sold due to Nazi persecution

Heirs’ lawyer says firm “sets a standard of best practice” for private collectors

Nazi-loot panel asks Sprengel Museum to return Schmidt-Rottluff work to heirs

Feather entrepreneur most likely sold windmill painting under duress, Limbach Commission finds

Berlin cancels show of Tehran’s Modern art

Iranian authorities miss German deadline to issue export permits

Bern inherits Gurlitt collection as court rejects cousin's challenge to will

Munich Higher Regional Court concludes that Gurlitt was mentally capable of articulating his final wishes

Two Dutch Old Masters returned to estate of Jewish dealer Max Stern

Max Stern Foundation recovers paintings consigned to German auction houses on tips from anonymous informer and police

Heirs of Jewish dealer sue Bavaria in US court

Alfred Flechtheim’s descendants say paintings by Beckmann, Gris and Klee were sold under duress after the Nazis seized power

Berlin returns Nazi-looted sculpture to Jewish publisher’s family

Susanna by Reinhold Begas will remain on loan to the Alte Nationalgalerie

Bauhaus centenary in 2019 will be marked by events across Germany and beyond

New museums in Weimar and Dessau, extension to Berlin archive and “Grand Tour of Modernism” are among initiatives planned

Germany to fund research into Nazis’ 'degenerate art'

Government steps in to fill funding gap for project after private partner withdraws

Lawnews

Germany appoints first Jewish members to Nazi-loot art panel

Culture minister promises greater transparency for Limbach Commission in plan approved by cabinet

Tehran exhibition in Berlin faces delay after Iranian culture minister resigns

German capital’s museum authorities say they are confident that show will still open in December

Berlin to build temporary exhibition space amid Pergamon Museum delays

New building will host Asisi’s Pergamon panorama and a frieze from the altar

Neil MacGregor unveils plans for Berlin’s ambitious Humboldt Forum

Director calls for admission-free museum to draw Berliners as well as tourists

Pergamon Museum renovation costs spiral as reopening is delayed

Authorities consider alternative location to show Berlin museum’s prized Pergamon Altar<br> <br>

Kirchner’s Swiss sleigh ride covered up Berlin café society scene

Frankfurt museum discovers Expressionist canvas from 1926 under another late painting

German baker Dr Oetker finds possible Nazi loot in company art collection

The maker of baking products, muesli and pizza, promises to return any plundered art to heirs of Jewish owners

Herzog & de Meuron wins competition to build Berlin’s Museum of the 20th Century

Winning design is compared to a station, an indoor riding school, a temple and a marquee

Unknown Kirchner painting discovered beneath later canvas

Städel Museum found Café Scene during tests on Sleigh Trip in the Snow

Berlin art dealer 'surprises' city's museums with gift of house

Heiner Bastian has donated his David Chipperfield-designed gallery for use as an educational centre

Found: Otto Dix’s picture book for five-year-old stepdaughter

Dusseldorf gallery displays work long-hidden in family altar retable

An ocean apart in the attitude to authentication

European artists’ estates boldly go where US counterparts fear to tread

Cologne to return Menzel drawing sold in 1939 to Hildebrand Gurlitt

City says drawing was sold under duress, probably to fund escape to US by couple persecuted by the Nazis

Dusseldorf museums acquire 200 works by Nauman, Flavin, LeWitt and more

Collection of Dorothee and Konrad Fischer, pioneering champions of conceptual art, to be exhibited at K20 museum

Weimar blazes a trail with restoration of burned books

Library has saved half a million pages since major fire of 2004

Berlin plans Jewish museum for children inspired by Noah’s Ark

Winning plan by Olson Kundig of Seattle proposes a rainbow gallery and an exit slide