Restitution
French relent over Rosenberg war loot claims
A Monet returned; a Bonnard, Léger and Matisse still claimed
Restitution round-up: France, Austria, Italy, and Germany
Recent developments in the restitution of looted artworks
Getty returns three stolen works to Italy
Curator voluntarily collaborates with Italy in accordance with museum’s policy
The very comical tragedy of the Schloss collection's “Rembrandt”
Christie’s, US Customs, a bankrupt dealer, hoards of lawyers, and much time and money played a part in this
Much piety and hot air at Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets
No binding agreements were reached and little effect on restitution is expected
Princess Leonie of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach lays claim to $820 million worth of property held in Weimar public institutions
Weimar, Cultural Capital of 1999, negotiates over its cultural treasures
Austria makes legal amends by passing a bill ensuring restitution
Works acquired in a “suspicious manner” will begin to be returned at once
Jewish family loses out to Louvre over WWII spoliation case
After an emergency ruling, the Louvre retains five Italian paintings that were salvaged after the war and the aggrieved Gentili family must now await appeal. Meanwhile, the Musée national d’art moderne has approved the return of more works
Goodman restitution case settled out of court
Disputed Degas to go to the Art Institute of Chicago
The Lviv Dürer story continues: Hitler’s shadow over the British Museum
Restitution claims for the Lubomirski and Ossolinski collections are complicated by the history of Lviv’s occupiers
Probing provenance: The importance of due diligence and insurance for defective title
The recent, widely publicised dispute over the provenance of two paintings by Egon Schiele, withdrawn last year from a loan exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on the grounds of contested ownership, offered a vivid illustration of the problems facing museums and private collectors who may find themselves having to prove good title to their possessions
Return of 1939 World Fair art demanded
A relation of the Polish painter Tadeusz Pruszkowski, who died in 1942, has asked Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, to hand over seven Polish paintings and four tapestries, but the Jesuit Institution says the objects properly belong to it
War loot found in a rug dealer’s shop in Boston
Veteran’s reluctant admission of taking plunder clinches case
Co-ownership rejected by Budapest Museum of Fine Arts for alleged war loot
Montreal Museum maintains they bought the Vasari in good faith
Anatomy of plunder: Maurice Tempelsman finds himself at the centre of a scandal over illegally excavated antiquities
Jackie’s companion targeted for buying $1 million of hot Greek body parts
Ronald Lauder returns Nazi loot
1829 Kipresnky painting was taken to Berlin in the 1940's
From the archive (1998): How The Art Newspaper tracked down Ethiopia’s greatest icon after its looting by a British agent in 1868
The Kwer'ata Re'esu was kept in a bank vault in Portugal, where our correspondent examined it and took colour photographs in 1998
Will the Axum obelisk return home to Ethiopia?
The return may be even more complicated than during the Fascist era
Florentine seizure of war-theft paintings on loan from New Zealand
It is alleged that they were stolen from the collection of Cino Vitta, head of the Jewish community in Florence during the war
US museums deny holding war loot
Museum directors summoned before the House of Representatives
Italy will return Axum obelisk to Ethiopia
The act is part of a considerable effort to erase Mussolini’s mark on the nation
An interim report comes from "Spoils of War" symposium
A survey touching all the bases: losses, recoveries, legal debates, cultural restitution
Why did leading US museum director keep mum over paintings stolen from Kassel?
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts and its former director, Alan Shestack are castigated in the press
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
The Duma overrides Yeltsin on law nationalising booty taken from Germany to the Soviet Union after World War II
Russian parliament voted last month to override President Yeltsin’s veto, putting him in a precarious political position
Weimar gets a painting back as Sotheby’s returns stolen Tischbein portrait
“A very happy occasion” as painting looted by American soldiers returns home
Twenty-five Hermitage “treasures” gained as war loot still unclaimed
Watercolours and drawings seized by the Red Army in a Berlin bunker in 1945 have been on show in the Hermitage earlier this year for the first time
Bernie Grant and the quest to return ceremonial objects to Nigeria: Was the Stone of Destiny Pandora’s box?
Grant shares with The Art Newspaper his conversation with Julian Spalding of the Kelingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow
Russian Parliament nationalises art taken from Germany
But negotiations continue between Chancellor Kohl and President Yeltsin
Egypt renounces claim to the Rosetta stone and other major antiquities
A radical change of policy as new director of antiquities takes over