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

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Gurlitt task force wraps up with ‘meager’ results

162 works suspected to be Nazi loot, but just five have been identified as definite plunder