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 […]
by Marc Masurovsky As in the case of Pablo Picasso and many other eminent artists plying their creative streak in France, Henri Matisse chose to remain […]
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 […]
A New Era of Collaboration and Digitized Resources: World War II Provenance Research Seminar May 6-7, 2011 United States National Archives 700 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest Washington, […]
The Nazi government enacted on May 31, 1938, the ”Act on Confiscations of Degenerate Art“ (“Gesetz über Einziehung von Erzeugnissen entarteter Kunst“) in order to legitimize […]
Before there was any talk of restitution of looted art to families of individuals whose cultural assets had been stolen and misappropriated in Axis-controlled Europe between […]
For as long as museums have existed, one of their cardinal raisons d’être has been to preserve the finest specimens of “CULTURE” for the greater good, […]
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 […]