Restitution

German baking company Dr Oetker returns painting sold due to Nazi persecution

Heirs’ lawyer says firm “sets a standard of best practice” for private collectors

Nazi-loot panel asks Sprengel Museum to return Schmidt-Rottluff work to heirs

Feather entrepreneur most likely sold windmill painting under duress, Limbach Commission finds

Bern inherits Gurlitt collection as court rejects cousin's challenge to will

Munich Higher Regional Court concludes that Gurlitt was mentally capable of articulating his final wishes

Two Dutch Old Masters returned to estate of Jewish dealer Max Stern

Max Stern Foundation recovers paintings consigned to German auction houses on tips from anonymous informer and police

Heirs of Jewish dealer sue Bavaria in US court

Alfred Flechtheim’s descendants say paintings by Beckmann, Gris and Klee were sold under duress after the Nazis seized power

Berlin returns Nazi-looted sculpture to Jewish publisher’s family

Susanna by Reinhold Begas will remain on loan to the Alte Nationalgalerie

Looted Constable returned by Tate heads to auction at Christie’s

Heirs of Hungarian baron are selling Beaching a Boat, Brighton

German baker Dr Oetker finds possible Nazi loot in company art collection

The maker of baking products, muesli and pizza, promises to return any plundered art to heirs of Jewish owners

Anita Halpin among beneficiaries of Neue Galerie restitution

The New York museum paid the Hess family “fair market value” to keep Nude in its collection

Cologne to return Menzel drawing sold in 1939 to Hildebrand Gurlitt

City says drawing was sold under duress, probably to fund escape to US by couple persecuted by the Nazis

Munich museums sold art looted from Jewish families to Nazis after war, new research shows

Paintings recovered by Monuments Men and entrusted to Bavaria were instead sold, in some cases to prominent Nazis

Italy retrieves three works looted from Tuscan villa by the Nazis

Paintings were confiscated by Fascist government then seized by German occupying forces

Bonn and Bern postpone Gurlitt exhibition as court decision on will drags out

Munich Upper Regional Court sets hearing date for September, leaving collection in limbo for several more months

Nazi-looted Old Master painting withdrawn from Austrian auction at France’s request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