A crisis that began as an uproar over how the Bavarian State Painting Collections handles Nazi-looted art has widened as Bernhard Maaz “clears the way for a new beginning,” according to the state minister

The state’s culture minister has responded to an outcry after a newspaper reported that the Bavarian State Painting Collections keeps an unpublished internal list of 200 Nazi-looted works in its possession

For first time, advisory team stipulates that work must not be sold for ten years in case evidence emerges that contradicts its ruling

Dutch Square is one of many paintings the Bavarian state returned to the families of the looters instead of the original Jewish owners after the war