Rose Valland

March 2, 2011
March 2, 2011

Ardelia Hall

Ardelia Hall (1899-1979) is the quintessential personification of a one-woman campaign to track down looted art and restitute thousands of these missing works to their rightful […]
March 2, 2011
April 9, 2011
April 9, 2011

Historical backdrop of postwar restitution politics

The following is an excerpt from a November 18, 1998, presentation on looted art given at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. A bit dated and dusty but […]
April 9, 2011
April 17, 2011
April 17, 2011

Found: Martin Bormann loot near Biarritz, France

In a wee article published on 10 March 1951, “Le Monde” reported the discovery of crates at Ilbarritz, near Biarritz, labeled “Martin Bormann, Reichsleiter, München.” Joke, […]
April 17, 2011
April 25, 2011
April 25, 2011

The fate of the Nikolsburg hoard

Nikolsburg CastleSource: Wikipedia Nikolsburg, now Mikulov, lies in the south Moravian region of the Czech Republic. After the Munich Pact of September 30, 1938, the town […]
April 25, 2011
June 18, 2011
June 18, 2011

MNR (Musées Nationaux Récupération) Notes—R 6 P « Femme au turban, » by Marie Laurencin

R 6 PSource: Ministère de la culture – Musées Nationaux Récupération Research always begets more research. It’s a bottomless, endless process. One has to be very […]
June 18, 2011
August 15, 2011
August 15, 2011

“Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berri”—still missing?

The basic facts: When the Nazis steal everything there is to steal from the dozen or so members of the French branch of the Rothschild family […]
August 15, 2011
November 8, 2011
November 8, 2011

Nazi looted art conference at Lafayette College, October 26-28, 2011: a debriefing (I)

From left to right: Rachel Davidson, Diane Ahl, Radu Pribic Courtesy: Lafayette College It has now been close to two weeks since Lafayette College in quaint […]
November 8, 2011
January 11, 2012
January 11, 2012

The “three graces” of art restitution

“The Graces of the Gardens of the Hesperides”, Rubens, taken by the ERRSource: Holocaust-Era Assets Portal, NARA, RG 111-SC-374665 Although they were not paragons of beauty […]
January 11, 2012
February 13, 2012
February 13, 2012

Looted Renoir painting on the French Riviera

by Marc Masurovsky SS Officer Hermann Brandl, also known as the head of the infamous black market organization in wartime Paris called “Otto” left France in […]
February 13, 2012
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