Germany
Decorative arts from Art Nouveau and Deco to Werkbund, Bauhaus and Functionalism
Another floor opens up in the Bröhan Museum with its privately formed collection
US collectors attend Art Forum Berlin in force
New German artists have put this fair back on the map
Top German collector disappoints museums by selling loans
Hans Grothe has sold 700 works to Wella hair-care billionaires for E50 million
Frieder Burda—leading German collector of Modern masters including Picasso and Pollock—dies aged 83
Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden is home to the philanthropist's collection of around 1,000 works
Leipzig exhibition ousts artist with alt-right sympathies
Axel Krause’s support for anti-immigration party AfD was a step too far for the organisers, but others say his exclusion suppresses freedom
Seattle Art Museum sues New York dealers Knoedler
The heirs of Parisian dealer Paul Rosenberg demand the return of a Matisse stolen during World War II
Berlin museums appeal to US Supreme Court in dispute over €200m Guelph Treasure
The case 'shouldn't be heard in a US court', argues the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Jewish Museum Berlin director steps down after a tweet misfires
Germany’s Council of Jews said Peter Schäfer “lost the trust of the Jewish community”
Humboldt Forum opening delayed until 2020
The opening festivities were to begin this year, but the final stage of construction is behind schedule
Exhibition resurrects East Germany's demolished Palast der Republik
Kunsthalle Rostock, the only museum built under the GDR, remembers Berlin's asbestos-riddled parliament building and culture hub
Anti-Semitic 'Jewish Sow' relief may be removed from Luther’s church
Medieval sculpture on façade of Unesco World Heritage site in Wittenberg is one of around 30 similar pieces across Europe
Nazi site in Nuremberg to be preserved but not restored
German city launches €85m plan to prevent further decay of infamous rally grounds
Ralph Rugoff on his Venice Biennale concept. Plus, Bernar Venet and Berlin Gallery Weekend
The artistic director reveals his plans and the French artist discusses his biggest motivation for making art
Berlin collector turns Nazi-era Luftwaffe building into home for video art
Software entrepreneur Markus Hannebauer opens Fluentum to the public with Dutch artist Guido van der Werve
Berlinische Galerie forced to close suddenly because of structural problems
“Safety comes first,” the building’s manager says
US museum criticises use of Gérôme’s Slave Market in German right-wing campaign
Anti-immigration party AfD is using provocative 19th-century work on its posters for the upcoming European elections
Indigenous human remains returned to Australia by five German institutions
Australia is pursuing further repatriations from Germany, ambassador says
New Berlin exhibition exposes Emil Nolde’s Nazi ties
Show at the Hamburger Bahnhof explores how the German artist hid behind Hitler's "degenerate" label
Weimar—birthplace of Bauhaus—opens new museum dedicated to the influential design school
On the same day, the nearby Neues Museum Weimar will open a new permanent exhibition on early Modernism
Software billionaire plans to turn decaying Potsdam restaurant into museum for East German art
Hasso Plattner also plans to put his Impressionist works on permanent display in his Barberini Museum
Panel urges return of Hitler’s Bellotto paintings to heirs of Jewish retail magnate
German advisory commission on Nazi-looted art says paintings in government collection should be restituted to the descendants of Max James Emden
Culture ministers from 16 German states agree to repatriate artefacts looted in colonial era
Joint declaration is “a statement of historical responsibility,” says Culture Minister Monika Grütters
Germany allocates €1.9m for museums to research colonial-era acquisitions
An eight-member panel including Bénédicte Savoy will assess grant applications
Hitler watercolours seized as suspected fakes
Three landscapes signed A. Hitler were offered for sale at Berlin’s Auktionshaus Kloss
Dresden ballroom returns to gilded glory as part of €300m palace reconstruction
Residential Palace complex, a casualty of Allied bombing in the Second World War, is due to be rebuilt by 2021
Shredded Banksy work to go on long-term loan to Stuttgart museum
Love is in the Bin will be shown among works by Rembrandt, Holbein, Marcel Duchamp and Picasso
Munich's Haus der Kunst, leaderless since June, appoints expert commission
Commission is to support curators until successor to Okwui Enwezor is found
German museum to show shredded Banksy work
Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden aims to make the work “accessible to as many people as possible”
Sotheby’s Germany chief Philipp von Württemberg resigns
Heinrich von Spreti will serve as interim managing director until a replacement is found
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's exotic art was inspired by cabaret, circuses and the travels of fellow artists
New show explores the flights of fancy made by the Expressionist who never ventured outside Germany and Switzerland