Restitution

Nazi-looted Old Master painting withdrawn from Austrian auction at France’s request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

Leopold Museum returns two Schiele drawings to New York heir

Vienna institution keeps three works after lengthy negotiation

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

Blind, 90-year-old son of Holocaust victims sues to find his family’s art

David Toren has filed a petition in New York State Supreme Court asking the Berlin auction house Villa Grisebach to reveal the buyers of works sold there

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>

Cambodian warrior comes home: Denver Art Museum returns Khmer statue

The sculpture, which was probably removed from the Koh Ker temple complex during the country's civil war, is the last of its kind to leave a US public collection

Looted Pissarro work to return to France

La bergère rentrant des moutons, seized by Nazis in 1941, has been hanging in an Oklahoma university museum since 2000

Stolen mosque lamps to return to Egypt as Cairo museum houses new database

Authorities confirmed the objects had been taken from national collection and fakes left in their place

More than 500 cultural objects returned to Ecuador

Ancient artefacts and colonial-era art repatriated from Argentina and Spain

Art Loss Register faces competition complaint from Art Recovery Group

Gloves come off in fight to run international database of stolen works of art

Dresden buys back Kirchner painting seized by Nazis as ‘degenerate art’

Expressionist work confiscated for Third Reich’s ‘shaming exhibitions’ returns to Germany

Artnews

Gurlitt task force wraps up with ‘meager’ results

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

US collector and Dutch dealer reject Nazi loot claim

Heirs insist German-Jewish factory owner was forced to sell portrait by Gerrit Dou in 1933

New foundation takes over research into Gurlitt hoard

Much-criticised taskforce hands over responsibility as frustration grows at slow progress

EU law rejects Getty Lysippos restitution verdict

Legal battle resumes for the Victorious Youth, which is housed at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles

Artnews

Holocaust survivor’s art last seen in Cuba

US foundation claims Castro regime seized paintings that Hitler failed to steal

German culture foundation angers Jewish groups over Holocaust dating

1935 sale of the Guelph Treasure predates the Holocaust “by several years”, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said in US court papers

Lawnews

Tale behind Schiele watercolours is a tragedy—but is it a theft?

The heirs of the Viennese entertainer Fritz Grünbaum, who died in Dachau, go to court in New York to recover his art

MoMA returns expressionist landscape after decade-long detective case

The twists and turns of a mistaken provenance meant a work by Kirchner had entered the museum’s collection under the wrong title and date

Matisse portrait claim rejected by National Gallery

Greta Moll’s heirs argue painting was “misappropriated” in 1947

Looted marble bust returned to Poland

Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of the goddess Diana was taken by the Nazis during the Second World War

Dispute over Venetian painting seized by Vichy regime resolved after more than 70 years

Late 18th-century Vincenzo Chilone regatta scene once owned by John and Anna Jaffé is due to be sold at Christie’s

More Dabuzishan artefacts returned to China

At handover, the French dealer and collector Christian Deydier says he hopes all the objects taken from ancient tombs will “return home and be united”

Getty becomes first museum to restitute Armenian art removed during genocide

The institution will get to keep the brilliantly illuminated gospel pages in its collection after legal settlement

Restitution claim for Bristol Museum’s Renoir rejected

Painting’s sale was forced but not by Nazis, report concludes

Argentina plans to return thousands of artefacts to Ecuador and Peru

Country’s president applauds “unusual” restitution but calls out international museums that display objects stolen from Latin American

Restituted works help Sotheby’s lead the way

Impressionist and Modern sales meet expectations