Restitution
Agreement reached on EEC exports and restitution
The Regulation to enter into force by the end of March, the Directive in October
World War II ends for a small town in eastern Germany as treasures are finally returned
Church valuables were dispersed in 1945, reunited in 1992, and return home in 1993
Yeltsin’s Commission for Restitution begins work this month to legalise and declassify war booty
This includes finally addressing the disputed Koenigs Collection
Ethiopian football fans demand return of Axum obelisk looted by Mussolini
Official campaign for restitution of sculptured stele
Restitution in Poland: Count recovers Leonardo’s “Lady with the Ermine” from the Communists and donates it to a foundation
Czartoryski Museum and Library converted into foundation with advice from London art dealer, Andrew Ciechanowiecki
Non-compliance with Security Council’s resolutions holds up UNESCO mission to reunite Iraq with treasures lost in Gulf War
More than 4,000 museum items missing according to Director General of the Iraqi Antiquities Department
True claim to Malevich works still to be determined, but Popov eager to strike a deal involving Koening Collection
The Amsterdam Old Master drawings may be swapped for others owned by the van Beuningen Museum in Russia
Unidroit lawyers meet for international agreement on restitution of stolen works of art
Stumbling blocks: attempts to define “national treasure” and abolition of passage of title in “good faith” purchases
Hermitage to exhibit Bremen Old Master drawings
Director does not foresee restitution to Germany
The library of the Sabatinis
After decades of pretending to know nothing about it, Mainz University library reluctantly returns Nazi loot of precious books
Ministers for the Arts meet to discuss art exports under new EEC regulations
Dondelinger proposes uniform controls on external borders and a restitution system
Official Soviet circles consider the return to the West of World War II art treasures
Glasnost has unveiled the ill kept secret of thousands of works of art, of archives and libraries taken to the USSR
US returns bell taken as trophy of war to Japan
The temple bell was taken from a Japanese island by American marines at the end of World War II