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

Berlinarchive

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

Collectorsarchive

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

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

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

Looted artarchive

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

Collectorsarchive

Death of Peter Ludwig, mega-collector

The chocolate magnate both infuriated and stimulated the German art scene for nearly thirty years

June 1996archive

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

Looted artarchive

Daniel Wildenstein in fight to recover a Boldini stolen by the Nazis

Would Italian law allow this picture to revert to the original owner?

Lost artarchive

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

Featuresarchive

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

Looted artarchive

Stolichny bank buys war booty

Russian bank revealed as major investor in the art market

Obituariesarchive

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

Hermitage to exhibit Bremen Old Master drawings

Director does not foresee restitution to Germany