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Sun Sentinel 13 May 2012
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Huffington Post 6 May 2012
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LA Times 24 April 2012
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The Portal provides for the first time digital access to millions of cultural property records from the National Archives of the US, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Ukraine, France and other archival sources.
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Launched on 2 February 2011 by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The site includes missing plundered paintings by Raphael, Carracci, Breughel, van Dyck, Rubens, and Guardi and others, reflecting the 70% of Poland's cultural heritage lost to the Nazis. The site provides no provenance information though it includes works both privately and publicly owned and claimed.
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The Nazi records and photographs of the looting of more than 20,000 objects from Jews in France and Belgium. Click here for background details.
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c 43,500 paintings and c 13,000 persons and institutions associated with their acquisition or sale by the Munich art dealer Galerie Heinemann from 1890 to 1939. Click here for the full background.
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The history of the family, a copy of the July 2010 lawsuit filed in New York and photos of the artworks.
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The fate of more than 21,000 artworks condemned as “degenerate” by the Nazis and seized from German museums in 1937. Click here for background details.
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Index cards and photographs of the 170,000 works of art collected up by the Allies at the end of the war and inventoried from 1945 till 1951.
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A searchable, illustrated catalogue of the 4,731 works of art found by the Allies in the Linz Collection, with provenance details. Click here for detailed information.
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Hundreds of looted objects in Austrian public collections available for restitution.
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Conferences and Events |
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May 2012
Eva Blimlinger and Monika Mayer, eds.
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April 2012
Jennifer Anglim Kreder.
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April 2012
Gabriele Hauschke-Wicklaus (Autor), Angelika Amborn-Morgenstern (Autor), Erika Jacobs (Autor), Geschichtswerkstatt Offenbach am Main (Herausgeber).
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March 2012
Johanna Dora.
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February 2012
Christian Fuhrmeister, Johannes Griebel, Stephan Klingen and Ralf Peters, eds..
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February 2012
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted.
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February 2012
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted.
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February 2012
E. H. Gombrich. A lecture given in 1996 on the occasion of the seminar 'Fin De Siècle Vienna and its Jewish Cultural Influences'.
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February 2012
Cornelia Briel.
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January 2012
Jos van Beurden.
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December 2011
Ottfried Dascher.
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November 2011
Bruno Bauer, Christina Köstner-Pemsel, Markus Stumpf, eds..
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November 2011
Ruth Redmond-Cooper and Norman Palmer, eds.
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October 2011
Konstantin Akinsha.
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Welcome to lootedart.com |
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This site contains two fully searchable databases.
The Information Database contains information and documentation from forty nine countries, including laws and policies, reports and publications, archival records and resources, current cases and relevant websites.
The Object Database contains details of over 25,000 objects of all kinds – paintings, drawings, antiquities, Judaica, etc – looted, missing and/or identified from over fifteen countries.
For a list of Essential Website Links,showing all key research sites and resources,click here.
For details of international resources, see below, Online Resources and Case News.
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The decision of the German Supreme Court, the Bundesgerichtshof, in respect of the Hans Sachs Poster Collection was published on 24 April 2012 and is available here.
On 16 March 2012 the Supreme Court had issued a press statement in respect of its judgement that the Hans Sachs Poster Collection be returned to the rightful owner, Peter Sachs. The statement can be read here. The Court ruled that Hans Sachs never lost legal ownership of the collection and the right to restitution, set out in the post war Federal Restitution Act, remains in force today. Therefore not to restitute would "perpetuate Nazi injustice". The German Historical Museum Berlin, which has been holding the Collection, issued a statement also on 16 March that it would not resist the judgement of the Court and would enter into talks with Peter Sachs to return the Collection. Its press statement can be read here.
To read the Report, click here.
17 February 2012: A painting from the workshop of Palma Il Vecchio, The Holy Family with John the Baptist and St. Catherine, is to be returned to the heirs of art dealer Saemy Rosenberg, following a recommendation of the Dutch Restitutions Committee. A claim for a further twelve objects was rejected. A claim by the heirs of Herbert Gutmann for four bronzes from the collection of Eugen Gutmann was also rejected. For further details, see the press release here, the Rosenberg recommendation here, and the Gutmann recommendation here.
On 6 February 2012 US Federal Judge Robert Hinkle ordered the return of a 16th century Baroque painting depicting Christ carrying the cross to the heirs of Federico Gentili di Giuseppe, a Jewish man who died shortly before the German occupation of France in World War II. Previously, in January 2012, the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida had ordered the forfeiture of the painting, the Cristo Portacroce Trascinato Da Un Manigoldo after its seizure on 4 November 2011 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The Commission for Looted Art in Europe had been seeking the restitution of the painting from the Italian government, which held it in the Brera Museum in Milan, and assisted in obtaining the seizure and return of the painting after it was loaned to the Mary Brogan Museum in Tallahassee, Florida.
On 10 November 2011, the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (the Central Library of Berlin) published a list of the rightful owners of looted books in its collection identified through signatures, stamps, inscriptions and notes found in the books - all of which have been photographed by the Library. Names in the books include those of the rightful owners, also the names of donors dedications, previous owners from the period before 1933, and, in some cases, the names of the Nazi perpetrators. While many of the books were forcibly stolen by the agencies of the Third Reich or were taken as a result of discriminatory laws, others had to be sold by the persecuted either for their flight or to allow them to survive.A minimum number of 1,920 of the books were acquired by the Library in 1943 from the municipal pawnship and these come exclusively from the private collections of the Jews of Berlin who were deported and murdered. The Library is seeking the rightful owners to that they can return the books to them. The names are searchable on this site.
As a result of the list of names being published on lootedart.com on 3 January 2012, the Library received many enquiries from families whose names were listed. In order to help these enquirers, as of 4 May 2012, a new website, http://raubgut.zlb.de/ enables direct access to the individual objects in the Library that belong to the people named.
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Konrad Roethel at the Central Collecting Point Munich 1949
Taken by the Munich-born photographer Johannes Felbermeyer, more than 1,100 prints and negatives record the repatriation of art after World War II, depicting those involved in the process- art-historical and military figures including Edgar Breitenbach, General Lucius D. Clay, Charles Parkhurst, Rodolfo Siviero, and Craig Hugh Smyth and approximately 500 European paintings and sculptures. Available at the Getty Research Institute, these have now been digitised and can be browsed and searched here.
Launched in June 2011, Your Paintings now contains the works of over 23,000 artists. The site is interactive and fully searchable by artist, collection and location, and provides links to the collections themselves.To make the site searchable by subject matter, over 5,000 members of the UK public have signed up as taggers, alongside curators and experts, participating in the task of cataloguing the collection online in a way which will allow searches for a wide range of subject matter across the website.