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Dutch Restitutions Committee Developments 2018-2019
23 April 2019: Recommendation of the German Advisory Commission re Dr. Max James Emden
1 November 2018: Dutch Restitution Decision re Kandinsky 'Painting with Houses: 'Interest of the claimant in restitution does not outweigh the interest of the [Museum] in retaining the work'
10 July 2018: Ruling filed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit re the Guelph or Welfenschatz Treasure
2 May 2018: Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI): Research Results and Online Portal
24 April 2018: Restitution of an Old Master painting by Simon de Vlieger seized from the Alphons Jaffé collection by the Bomann-Museum in Celle
22 February 2018: Claim by Oscar Stettiner heirs against the Nahmads for Modigliani painting 'Seated Man with a Cane', NY court ruling
Old Master painting by Jacob Ochterveld, looted by the Nazis in WW2, restituted to Dutch Smidt van Gelder family by the Lord Mayor of the City of London
21 September 2017: Ruling of US District Court Southern District of New York in suit of heirs of Margarete Moll v National Gallery of Art London
10 January 2017: German Advisory Commission recommends the Sprengel Museum return a Schmidt-Rotluff painting to the heirs of Max Ruedenberg
7 December 2016: German Advisory Commission issues recommendation in case of violin claimed by the heirs of Felix Hildesheimer, its first case involving a private owner
1 December 2016: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) returns sculpture 'Susanna' by Reinhold Begas to the heirs of Felicia Lachmann-Mosse
15 July 2016: Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE) Press Release: Bavaria to investigate return of art to high-ranking Nazi families – Dombauverein commits to restitution of Kraus family painting
15 June 2016: Kunsthalle Bremen returns and repurchases Isaak Major drawing from the Arthur Feldmann collection
20 April 2016: Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz returns two drawings and 26 photographs to the heirs of Professor Curt Glaser
9 July 2015 Lawyer Olaf Ossmann representing the heirs of Richard Semmel sends open letter to the Dutch Minister of Culture
23 June 2015: Restitution of Adolph Menzel pastel to the heirs of Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse (1843-1920)
4 June 2015: Ruling of Judge John Walter of California in the case of David Cassirer vs the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation
Koenigs collection's Kiev claim rejected by Dutch Restitutions Committee 23 June 2014
HSI and Manhattan US attorney return Nazi-German looted painting to Poland 6 February 2014
University of Leipzig returns 16 volumes owned by Fernand Raoul Jellinek-Mercedes to his heirs 18 March 2013
Koenigs case re-submitted, Dutch Restitutions Committee to reconsider, 5 February 2013
Restitution of Four Graphic Works to the Heirs of Curt Glaser by the Prussion Cultural Heritage Foundation 30 November 2012
Restitution of two German Renaissance clocks to the Eugen Gutmann family by the Landesmuseum Württemberg 29 November 2012
Wiesbaden Museum restitutes two paintings to the heirs of Martin Tietz
Restitution to the heirs of Julius Kien of a floral still-life from the workshop of Jan Brueghel the Elder by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
6 February 2012 US Federal Judge orders return of Romanino painting 'Cristo Portacroce' to the heirs of Federico Gentili di Giuseppe, a Jewish man who died shortly before the German occupation of France in World War II. On 18 April 2012 it was returned by the US authorities.
Two Wilhelm Lehmbruck watercolours restituted to the heirs of Paul Westheim by the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz 27 January 2012
US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) seizes rare painting stolen by the Nazis during World War II from the family of Federico Gentili di Giuseppe 4 November 2011
Walter Westfeld painting at MFA Boston June 2011: Provenance Outreach Conducted by Museum of Fine Arts Boston Results in Agreement to Retain Ownership of Eglon Van der Neer's 'Portrait of a man and woman in an interior'
Rejection of Claim by heirs of Victor von Klemperer for Ludwig Adler painting by Kokoschka: Claim rejected by the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent June 2011
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