The Holocaust Art Restitution Project was founded on September 4, 1997, in Washington, DC. Its founders were Ori Z. Soltes, then director of the B’nai B’rith […]
Truth be told, the founders-to-be of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP), Willi Korte and Marc Masurovsky, had approached the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in the […]
Portrait of Wally, Egon ScheileSource: MJH Larry Kaye discussed the circumstances under which Egon Schiele’s ‘Portrait of Walli’ had been seized under orders of the then-District […]
Note: This letter was sent to the late Marilyn Henry in an effort to articulate complicated thoughts pertaining to the unsettling resolution of a decades-old battle to […]
An event such as this one does not happen very often, especially not in Washington, DC. Co-sponsored by the National Archives and the two leading museum […]
Happy holidays! The “plundered art” blog just passed its first anniversary. This might be a good time to revisit its reason for existence. It’s not that […]
By Nikki Georgopulos, special to “plundered art” There has been a great deal of opining and sounding off recently among lawyers, professors, art historians, and art-related […]
The American government prefers to let the market decide on what is fair and just for Holocaust victims of cultural plunder. European governments are loath to […]