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Central Collecting Point Munich Database
Index cards and photographs of the 170,000 works of art collected up by the Allies at the end of the war and inventoried from 1945 till 1951.
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Index cards and photographs of the 170,000 works of art collected up by the Allies at the end of the war and inventoried from 1945 till 1951.
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International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR)
IFAR's online resources include sections on Art Law and Cultural Property and Catalogues Raisonnés. For further information, click here.
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IFAR's online resources include sections on Art Law and Cultural Property and Catalogues Raisonnés. For further information, click here.
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Hitler's Linz Collection
A searchable, illustrated, online catalogue of the 4,731 works of art found after the war by the Allies in the Linz Collection, with provenance details. Click here for detailed information.
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A searchable, illustrated, online catalogue of the 4,731 works of art found after the war by the Allies in the Linz Collection, with provenance details. Click here for detailed information.
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The German Finance Ministry
Provides a searchable online catalogue in German of 100+ art objects looted by the Nazis, given into the custody of the German government and available for restituton,
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Provides a searchable online catalogue in German of 100+ art objects looted by the Nazis, given into the custody of the German government and available for restituton,
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The Restitution of Cultural Assets. Causes of Action – Obstacles to Restitution – Developments
September 2009
Beat Schönenberger.
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September 2009
Beat Schönenberger.
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
August 2009
Robert M Edsel with Bret Witter.
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August 2009
Robert M Edsel with Bret Witter.
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The Venus Fixers: The Untold Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II
April 2009
Ilaria Dagnini Brey.
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April 2009
Ilaria Dagnini Brey.
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Artful Tom
April 2009
A memoir by Thomas Hoving, a former Director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, published in serial form in Artnet Magazine.
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April 2009
A memoir by Thomas Hoving, a former Director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, published in serial form in Artnet Magazine.
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Verlorene Bilder, verlorene Leben. Jüdische Sammler und was aus ihren Kunstwerken wurde
January 2009
Melissa Müller and Monika Tatzkow. (Lost Pictures, Lost Lives: Jewish collectors and the fate of their works of art)
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January 2009
Melissa Müller and Monika Tatzkow. (Lost Pictures, Lost Lives: Jewish collectors and the fate of their works of art)
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Art of the Defeat, France 1940-1944
January 2009
Laurence Bertrand Dorléac. An unflinching look at the art scene in France during the Nazi occupation.
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January 2009
Laurence Bertrand Dorléac. An unflinching look at the art scene in France during the Nazi occupation.
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Karl Haberstock. Umstrittener Kunsthändler und Mäzen
November 2008
Horst Keßler. (Karl Haberstock: Controversial art dealer and patron)
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November 2008
Horst Keßler. (Karl Haberstock: Controversial art dealer and patron)
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Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933–1945
November 2008
Martin Dean. The first fully comprehensive study on the confiscation of Jewish property in the Holocaust.
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November 2008
Martin Dean. The first fully comprehensive study on the confiscation of Jewish property in the Holocaust.
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Livres pillés, lectures surveillés: les bibliothèques françaises sous l'Occupation
October 2008
Martine Poulain. The first book on the looting of millions of books in France from public and private libraries during WW2, written by Martine Poulain, Director of the INHA library, Paris.
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October 2008
Martine Poulain. The first book on the looting of millions of books in France from public and private libraries during WW2, written by Martine Poulain, Director of the INHA library, Paris.
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Looted! Current questions regarding the cultural looting by the National Socialists in Europe
October 2008
Marie-Paul Jungblut (ed). Documentation of an exhibition in Luxembourg on art looting by the Nazis and contributions to an international symposium during the exhibition in October 2005.
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October 2008
Marie-Paul Jungblut (ed). Documentation of an exhibition in Luxembourg on art looting by the Nazis and contributions to an international symposium during the exhibition in October 2005.
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Welcome to lootedart.com |
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This site contains two fully searchable databases.
The Information Database contains information and documentation from forty nine countries, including laws and policies, reports and publications, archival records and resources, current cases and relevant websites.
The Object Database contains details of over 25,000 objects of all kinds – paintings, drawings, antiquities, Judaica, etc – looted, missing and/or identified from over fifteen countries.
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Seeking the identity of the Jewish collector 'O' from Frankfurt am Main
In November 1938 a forced sale of artworks took place at Hans Lange Berlin. The artworks belonged to a 'non-Aryan' collector from Frankfurt am Main whose surname began with the letter 'O'.
The 'O' portion of the sale consisted of 50 lots, including ivory figures, glass, bronzes, furniture, porcelain, Meissen china, Höchst figures, and paintings by Aert van der Neer, Jacob Ruysdael, Thomas Wijck, Louis-Marie Désiré-Lucas, Hugo Kotschenreiter, Franz von Lenbach, Adolf Lier, C. Roux, Caspar Scheuren, Norbert Schrödl, Carl Spitzweg, D. Thomassin and Adolf von Menzel.
Despite extensive research it has not yet been possible to identify the collector 'O' and so enable the return of his/her property. If you have any information or suggestions as to the identity of this collector, please contact info@lootedart.com.
'Nazi Art Theft' on National Geographic
Saturday 27 February at 9am
The National Geographic Channel will be screening Episodes 1 and 2 of this seven part series. For further details, click here.
MoMA vs Grosz court judgement of 6 January 2010
The New York court has granted MoMA's application to dismiss the claim of the heirs of George Grosz to three paintings now in the collection of MoMA. To read the judgement, click here.
Nazi Looted Art in the Second Circuit: Recent Developments
An article by Jennifer Kreder and Lucille Roussin analysing two recent cases.
The first is the case of Bakalar v Vavra and the second that of MoMA and the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation v Schoeps. Click here to read the article.
Rulings from the Dutch Restitution Committee 2001-9
The full list of owners whose heirs have, since 2001, made claims to the Committee (and whose names have been published - many have not), together with the recommendation made by the Committee, is available here.Bridges from the Reich
'The Importance of Émigré Art Dealers as Reflected in the Case Studies of Curt Valentin and Otto Kallir-Nirenstein'
A 'Working Paper' by Jonathan Petropoulos, a shorter version of which was given at the conference, 'Hitler's Europe: New Perspectives on Occupation', in Vienna on 10 November 2009. To read the paper, click here.
Jan Steen painting of the wedding night of Sarah and Tobias
An article by the eminent art historian, Gary Schwartz, on the forthcoming court case in The Hague (17 December 2009) to decide on the fate of the painting which is part owned by Marei von Saher (heir to Jacques Goudstikker) and part owned by the Bredius Museum.To read the article in which Schwartz makes a plea for a judgement of Solomon by von Saher, click here.Holocaust Records Collection Online
Archival materials on Holocaust assets, related documents and photographs.
In June a joint project of the national archives in France, Germany, the UK and the US, to digitise their Holocaust related records and provide them online was announced in Prague. An initial set of over one million Holocaust-related records - including millions of names and 26,000 photos from the National Archives- went online at the end of September 2009. The collection can be viewed at http://www.footnote.com/holocaust.
UK's Restitution Bill Becomes Law
On Thursday 12 November 2009 the UK's Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill 2008-09 was granted Royal Assent and will shortly become law, enabling the restitution of Nazi-looted works of art from all UK museums and cultural institutions. The UK government's commitment to bring in a law was secured in December 2007 by the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and Lord Janner. To read the UK government's press release of 12 November 2009, click here.
For further details of the Act, click here.
Immunity from Seizure in the UK
The lists of works of art for which immunity from seizure is currently sought by UK museums are available for review. The lists are online here.
Baroness Deech
In the House of Lords Second Reading of the UK's Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill, 10 July 2009, Baroness Deech, spoke eloquently of why Nazi looted art should be restituted: "Art is an ethical issue. Displaying looted art, once it is known to be such, is not just an invasion of privacy and a demonstration that wrongdoers may indeed profit from their crimes; it is also putting on show something that the owners never meant to be seen in such circumstances. It has ceased to be an object of beauty and one that museums can be proud of or use for educational and aesthetic aims. The spectator cannot look at it without seeing the pain and betrayal that led it to be situated there in a national museum. It taints the spectators who knowingly take advantage of the presence of the picture there and it speaks to them of loss and war, not creativity and insight. It is a well known principle in physics that the act of observation changes the object observed and there is something of that principle in our viewing of looted art."
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