Thyssen-Bornemisza

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 […]
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, […]
August 24, 2015

The Struggle Continues

by Ori Z. Soltes Which struggle?  Not just that on behalf of claimants whose cultural property was seized by the Nazis more than half a century […]