If governments are committed to the Washington Principles, they should create a co-ordinating body
‘If an artwork is located in the US, its fate cannot be decided in any other state, and any wrong decisions cannot be corrected elsewhere’
The 1918 drawing had been in the possession of another Austrian Jewish family, which recently became suspicious of the work's provenance and contacted Grünbaum’s heirs directly in order to “do the right thing”
Heirs of multiple Holocaust victims have made claims to the drawing, which a member of the Lehman Brothers banking dynasty bought as a gift for his son
Only seven nations have made major inroads in recovering property seized during the Holocaust, according to the World Jewish Restitution Organization
The museum insists that heirs to the original collector waited too long to file their claim for the valuable work on paper
The Ackland Art Museum restituted a painting taken from a prominent Jewish collector via Nazi coercion
With the help of Kyiv archives, a historian has investigated the fate of 5,000 works of art and 20,000 books owned by Julius Genss
The year-long grant will support three graduate students researching Nazi-confiscated cultural artefacts between 1933 and 1945
We uncover the tangled tale of the painting controversially sold off by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 and now in an Athens museum
The work, which has been in Eindhoven's Van Abbemuseum since the early 1950s, originally belonged to a collector who died in the Holocaust
Munich-based foundation follows other German institutions in quest for transparency, disclosing ownership of 1,200 works acquired since 1933 with over 500 pieces flagged as "former Nazi property"