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April 2, 2011

Cardozo Law School follow-up—Larry Kaye and the ‘Portrait of Walli’

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 […]
April 10, 2011

Henri Matisse in Vichy France

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 […]
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 3, 2011

An Interactive sneak peek at the schedule for May 6-7, 2011, World War II Provenance Research Seminar in Washington, DC

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, […]
June 22, 2011

How to profit from State-sanctioned plunder: the Entartete Kunst case

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 […]
July 31, 2011

Provenance research becomes political

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 […]
November 2, 2011

Confessions of an art looting “expert” (II)

Here’s a question: How did I get here? Well, I will do my best to answer this impudent query of mine. Main Gate at BirkenauSource: Wikipedia My […]
November 14, 2011

Safeguarding art in Nazi Germany for the greater good: an outline

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, […]
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 […]