Museums: Looted Cultural Property:

Hungarian National Gallery (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria)

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Title
Hungarian National Gallery (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria), Budapest

Description
The Hungarian National Gallery has a computerized database of artworks which were looted from Hungarian collection, which can be accessed at the museum. This museum has been involved in a claim for the restitution of artwork looted from the Herzog Collection. The claim has still not been fully resolved.

For detailed information on this case see also Nierenberg claim

Contact Information
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery)
Budavári Palota B épület
H-1014 Budapest
Szent György Tér 2
Tel: +36 (0)1 1757 533

Director-general: Loránd Bereczky
Mobile: +36 209 438 356

Deputy director: György Horváth
Office Tel: +36 (0)1 375 8858

Source
Central Registry Archives , correspondence from the Hungarian National Gallery, 17 and 19 October 2001

László Mrávik,  "Sacco di Budapest" and the Depredation of Hungary 1938-1949: Works of Art missing from Hungary as a result of the Second World War, Hungarian National Gallery Publications, 1998/2

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