Willi Korte

December 24, 2010
December 24, 2010

Origin of HARP—September 1997

The Holocaust Art Restitution Project was founded on September 4, 1997, in Washington, DC.  Its founders were Ori Z. Soltes, then director of the B’nai B’rith […]
December 24, 2010
December 24, 2010
December 24, 2010

Prelude to founding of HARP—Spring 1997

Truth be told, the founders-to-be of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP), Willi Korte and Marc Masurovsky, had approached the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in the […]
December 24, 2010
April 2, 2011
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 2, 2011
April 9, 2011
April 9, 2011

“A new paradigm for restituting looted cultural property?”, by Marc Masurovsky

by Marc MasurovskyThis presentation was delivered during the Prague Conference of June 26-30, 2009. Although somewhat strident, it captures a number of basic points regarding the […]
April 9, 2011
May 2, 2011
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 2, 2011
June 5, 2011
June 5, 2011

Jeudi 4 septembre 1997: colloque sur les conséquences juridiques et morales des restitutions d’oeuvres et d’objets d’art, Washington, DC

Un extrait de la conférence/colloque qui s’est tenue le jeudi 4 septembre 1997 à 9h30 sur les conséquences juridiques et morales des restitutions d’oeuvres et d’objets […]
June 5, 2011
April 30, 2012
April 30, 2012

Wild Weekend with Wally—Part One

Self-Portrait, by Egon Schiele, 1912Source: Google Images No, it’s not what it sounds like. I did not spend a wild weekend with Wally.  Portrait of Wally, […]
April 30, 2012
January 31, 2015
January 31, 2015

Sometimes It Takes a Village to Correct a Historical Wrong

Madonna and Child in a landscape by Ori Z. Soltes No two cases that deal with Nazi-plundered art are identical. There always seems to be some […]
January 31, 2015
October 1, 2016
October 1, 2016

Silences that are Hardly Golden

by Ori Z Soltes edited by Marc Masurovsky With the untimely passing of Elie Wiesel, my mind wanders back to issues that, over the years, I discussed […]
October 1, 2016