Cases:

Nierenberg claim

Albania
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Belarus
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Canada
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Georgia
Greece
Korea
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Norway
Paraguay
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
Ukraine
Uruguay
Yugoslavia

Title
Martha Nierenberg's claim for artworks from the Herzog Collection

Date
The case began in 2000.

Description
The Nazis and Hungarian financial police took Baron Herzog's collection of artworks from his apartment in Budapest. Part of the collection (including works by Cranach, Van Dyck and El Greco) is now in the Hungarian National Gallery and the Museum of Fine Art, both in Budapest.

Baron Herzog's granddaughter, Martha Nierenberg, heir to the Herzog collection, has claimed the restitution of these artworks with the help of the Commission for Art Recovery in New York. On 20 October 2000 the Budapest court ruled that all but one of the 11 paintings claimed by Martha Nierenberg should be returned to her.  The Hungarian government appealed against the ruling.

Source
Commission for Art Recovery, accessed 27 November 2002

Norman Palmer, Museums and the Holocaust. Institute of Art and Law Ltd, London, 2000

© website copyright Central Registry 2024