Catherine Hickley
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
Bavarian museums receive 58 top works by Mondrian, Delacroix, Beuys
Collection was assembled by the philanthropists Christof and Ursula Engelhorn over many decades
Syria before the war: nomads and foundry workers in Berlin photo exhibition
Photographer Mohamad Al Roumi offers a peaceful alternative view of his home country
German culture minister promises to reform Limbach Commission after mounting criticism
Nazi-era loot expert panel has no Jewish member and has mediated just 13 cases since 2003
German Parliament passes controversial law to protect cultural heritage
Collectors, dealers and high-profile artists campaigned hard against tightening import and export rules
Munich museums sold art looted from Jewish families to Nazis after war, new research shows
Paintings recovered by Monuments Men and entrusted to Bavaria were instead sold, in some cases to prominent Nazis
What Germany’s tough new law could mean for the antiquities market
Warning that the world’s most stringent trade rules could see dealers moving abroad
With sanctions in the rear-view mirror, European museums look to Iranian art
V&A plans show on Iranian heritage and history while Berlin seals deal with Tehran museum
The best of Germany's June auctions
Auction houses in Berlin, Cologne and Munich offer a restituted Menzel, Brücke artists and a Richter
Berlin’s lost Renaissance sculptures rediscovered in the Pushkin Museum
The 59 sculptures were among treasures seized by Stalin’s “Trophy Brigades” after the Second World War
Deal sealed to exhibit Tehran art collection in Berlin
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art collection to be shown in German capital from December
Lenin’s four-tonne head goes on show in Medieval Berlin Fortress
Monument of communist revolutionary was dug up for new permanent exhibition on statues of past political leaders
Marion Ackermann named new general director of Dresden State Art Collections
She replaces Hartwig Fischer, who took up his post as director of the British Museum this month
Bonn and Bern postpone Gurlitt exhibition as court decision on will drags out
Munich Upper Regional Court sets hearing date for September, leaving collection in limbo for several more months
Storm clouds gather over German art market
As Art Cologne opens today, some experts fear that forthcoming legislation protecting cultural assets could be nail in the coffin
Nazi-looted Old Master painting withdrawn from Austrian auction at France’s request
Painting by Bartholomeus van der Helst once belonged to famous Schloss Collection coveted by Hitler and Göring
Bonn and Bern team up to show controversial Gurlitt collection
Exhibition aims to “contribute to transparency” as researchers investigate how much of the art was looted by the Nazis
German museum seeks funding to purchase looted Kirchner
“Jewel” in Wilhelm-Hack-Museum’s collection may go back to heir of Alfred Hess after settlement
Swiss under pressure over art that Jews were forced to sell
Ronald Lauder says works sold by refugees to fund flight from Nazis should be treated the same as looted art<br>
Who will build Berlin’s new museum of the 20th century?
Ten proposals have made it to the next round of architecture competition
Dresden buys back Kirchner painting seized by Nazis as ‘degenerate art’
Expressionist work confiscated for Third Reich’s ‘shaming exhibitions’ returns to Germany
Gurlitt task force wraps up with ‘meager’ results
162 works suspected to be Nazi loot, but just five have been identified as definite plunder