Leopold Foundation

April 2, 2011

‘Human Rights and Cultural Heritage: from the Holocaust to the Haitian Earthquake’

Brookdale Center, Cardozo Law SchoolSource: Wikipedia This one-day symposium took place on March 31, 2011, at Cardozo Law School in downtown Manhattan. It featured, among other […]
May 2, 2011

Letter to Marilyn Henry concerning the return of ‘Portrait of Wally’ by Egon Schiele

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 […]
May 11, 2011

A “fair and just settlement” for a looted Schiele in Vienna?

Any public announcement of a settlement of a claim against the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria, must be greeted with a hefty dose of skepticism. In […]
January 18, 2012

“The Portrait of Walli”: The Case that Will Not Go Away

Portrait of Walli, by Egon SchieleSource: Bloomberg In an odd twist of events that allows Egon Schiele’s “Portrait of Walli” to resurface as a magnet for […]
June 16, 2014

Provenance research—now and later (First installment)

This “think-aloud” is neither the first nor the last on a topic that has become, despite its innocuous phrasing, far more contentious than it ought to […]
March 20, 2016

The economics of restitution battles

by Marc Masurovsky In an ideal world, the cost of seeking restitution of a Nazi-looted art object should not be a hindrance to achieving justice. The […]