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July 6, 2011

Who Could Believe that It Was Happening, Even as It was Happening?

A commentary by Ori Z. Soltes, chair of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP) Ori Z. SoltesSource: The Great Courses In the aftermath of the Holocaust, […]

July 8, 2011

The Appropriate Place For All That Stuff

by Ori Z. Soltes It is certainly true of much of the material culture of European Jewry that its pre-Holocaust dwelling places may no longer be […]

July 11, 2011

A work of art is not a work of art

SEL531Source: ERR Project via Bundesarchiv On 30 May 1947, the French “Commission de récupération artistique” (CRA) handed over 29 works and objects of art to the […]

July 11, 2011

Exhibit of works of art that are not works of art

Please refer to the 10 July 2011 post entitled “A work of art is not a work of art” Here are some of the 29 works […]

July 15, 2011

The Wildenstein reality check

by Marc Masurovsky [This article was updated on May 25, 2018.] Guy Wildenstein sur France 24 pour Sarko by ump Guy Wildenstein found himself in a […]

July 20, 2011

Nazi art historians and the Netsuke

by Marc Masurovsky Life at the Jeu de Paume for any art historian would have been the closest thing to working in an aesthetic playpen. Every […]

July 21, 2011

ERR database–Robert Schumann aka Robert Schuhmann

If the records of the Einsatztab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) are to be believed, the ERR stole only one item from Robert Schumann’s Parisian apartment—an Aubusson tapestry […]

July 24, 2011

The things that one finds on the Internet: Researching the fate of a painting by F. Demoulines

According to a document produced by R. C. Fenton of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare (MEW) in London on February 7, 1945, an unframed watercolor […]

July 24, 2011

The Jagershuis, Doorwerth, Holland

by Helen Driessen With so many terrible things happening in the world, does it make any sense to write about other terrible things that happened more […]