June 16, 2011

Revisiting the landscape of plunder

No serious discussion on the problem of cultural plunder dating back to the Nazi/Fascist era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust, can even begin without […]
June 14, 2011

A bed in which Marie-Antoinette might have slept

In the early days of November 1952, a man walked into the showrooms of Seligmann & Cie., located at 23, Place Vendôme, in Paris. His name […]
June 13, 2011

Chabad vs. Russia

The legal battle pitting the Lubavitch movement against the Russian government has reached new heights following two developments: a judgment issued on August 6, 2010, by […]
June 11, 2011

Looted paintings in the State Museum of Smolensk

Картинная галерея, СмоленскSource: Smolensk Travel In 2005, a museum in Smolensk, in cooperation with the German Embassy in Moscow, organized an exhibit of German paintings from […]
June 9, 2011

Uniform Law Commission plan to issue art ownership dispute standards may be over

On April 25, 2011, we announced an initiative spearheaded by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) aimed at coming up with a series of legal standards that […]
June 9, 2011

“A Harvest Scene (Heuernte)” by Philip Wouwerman

It required the death at the age of 96 on March 19, 2007, of a German art historian turned notorious Nazi plunderer and war criminal, Bruno […]
June 7, 2011

Plaidoyer pour les artistes et intellectuels juifs disparus

Palais des Études, École Nationale Superieur des Beaux-Arts, ParisSource: Wikipedia Il faut se poser la question, même s’il est injuste de la poser : enfin de […]
June 7, 2011

A 1940 “fait divers” in Fascist Italy

Dateline 1940. Two years have elapsed since the Fascist Government of Benito Mussolini enacted anti-Jewish laws, inspired by the infamous 1935 Nürnberg Laws in Nazi Germany […]
June 5, 2011

Jeudi 4 septembre 1997: colloque sur les conséquences juridiques et morales des restitutions d’oeuvres et d’objets d’art, Washington, DC

Un extrait de la conférence/colloque qui s’est tenue le jeudi 4 septembre 1997 à 9h30 sur les conséquences juridiques et morales des restitutions d’oeuvres et d’objets […]