Germany
The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany
Medieval German women’s art and spirituality examined with too much of the gender-studies approach
Art in the Media: Norman Foster’s renovated Reichstag, Andy Warhol on video and CNN's The ArtClub comes to London
Air-raising adventures in Berlin, the mythology of Andy Warhol on screen, and The ArtClub hitting its stride at London visual art events
Restitution round-up: France, Austria, Italy, and Germany
Recent developments in the restitution of looted artworks
Collector interview: Peter Maenz. “It felt like home”
The former Cologne art dealer has given, lent, and sold parts of his collection to Weimar, in eastern Germany
The end of World War II for Berlin’s paintings: The Bode and the Dahlem come together in harmony at the Gemäldegalerie
The State Paintings Collection has opened in Berlin’s Kulturforum
Dresden recovers four missing pictures
The paintings have been missing since 1945
Collectors keep flocking to Cologne: Interview with gallery director Christian Nagel
Cologne's title as contemporary art capital is yet to be challenged with Berlin still in the fragmentary stages
Documenta's journey from post-war to post-modern to pre-millennial
A history of how Documenta has changed with the times
Liste 97 is a venue for 36 young galleries in the former Warteck brewery
The stands in this fair cost only SFr 4,000
Basel beckons: from Bacon to Warhol, the cream of twentieth-century art on view
Europe’s grandest modern art fair will be bigger than ever this year, with collectors and museum curators from all over the world
An interim report comes from "Spoils of War" symposium
A survey touching all the bases: losses, recoveries, legal debates, cultural restitution
Rightful owners emerge for exhibited Nazi war loot in the Centre Pompidou
A Foujita, a Picasso and a Gleizes revert to the descendants of the owners–but over 1000 works remain homeless
Weimar gets a painting back as Sotheby’s returns stolen Tischbein portrait
“A very happy occasion” as painting looted by American soldiers returns home
Death of Peter Ludwig, mega-collector
The chocolate magnate both infuriated and stimulated the German art scene for nearly thirty years
German art heavyweights including Hans Haacke and Rosemarie Trockel sign document rejecting corporate sponsorship
If the State relinquishes its responsibility for funding culture, art will be restricted by private patronage, the letter argues
Swiss bank accounts trace Nazi art deals
Newly declassified records track the deposit of Nazi assets in Swiss banks—they include references to works of art
Famous writer’s eclectic collection to open to the public in 1998 with $4.6 million from the Bavarian State
A museum of chaos to make men marvel
War loot surfaces far from Weimar as Tischbein portrait turns up at Sotheby’s
The consignor of the piece remains unknown
Daniel Wildenstein in fight to recover a Boldini stolen by the Nazis
Would Italian law allow this picture to revert to the original owner?
Germans give way to gloom on restitution prospects as gulf becomes apparent at Dessau conference
Leading museum directors pessimistic
Museums in Magdeburg and Leipzig publish lists of their missing art
Two museums in search of their history end up at the door of the Pushkin Museum
The point of no return - Europe climbs on the restitution bandwagon
But the process has stalled as far as large-scale restitution between Russia and Germany is concerned
Why has the Germano-Russian war loot question still not been resolved?
Even after treaties have been signed, legal wrangles between Germany and Russia persist
Two concurrent exhibitions to open at the Museum Fredericianum
Works from the Renaissance to the Baroque can be seen alongside Andy Warhol
Pushkin Museum director on restitution: “We don’t owe anybody anything”
The doyenne of the Russian museum profession, Irina Antonova, opposes returning “trophy” works of art
Stolichny bank buys war booty
Russian bank revealed as major investor in the art market
Otto Von Simson dies
Professor Otto von Simson, the German art historian, died in Berlin at the end of May, aged 80.
Dresden's Frauenkirche: the Bell of Stone to hang again
Britain’s Foreign Office to support reconstruction of church bombed by Allies
The creation of a Russian-German Commission for the return of works of art: The Russian will to return war booty exists, the necessary laws do not
Long delays are foreseeable as approaches to restitution vary in both countries
Hermitage to exhibit Bremen Old Master drawings
Director does not foresee restitution to Germany