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News

Judge Confirms Ownership of Egon Schiele Drawing
New York Law Journal 4 September 2008
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What is the point of Germany's Limbach Commission?
Signandsight.com from Süddeutsche Zeitung 29 August 2008
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Talking looted art
Jerusalem Post 23 August 2008
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The Nazis, the Jewish banker, and the battle for two priceless Picassos
The Independent 22 August 2008
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New Websites

Salon Jewish Studies
A source of international resources for research in Jewish history and culture containing links to archival material, digitized sources and resources, and enquiry in scholarly literature from fifteen countries in Europe and the USA. Click here for detailed information about the site. 
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The German Finance Ministry
published an online catalogue in German of 100 art objects looted by the Nazis on 1 August 2007.
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The Austrian National Fund
launched the English version of its art database containing many hundreds of looted objects in Austrian public collections on 3 July 2007.
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Recent sites
For a list of recently available websites of looted or missing artworks,
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Exhibitions and conferences

Raub und Restitution - Looting and Restitution: Jewish-Owned Cultural Artifacts from 1933 to the Present19 September 2008 - 25 January 2009, Jewish Museum Berlin
For further information, click here.
À qui appartenaient ces tableaux ? Spoliations, restitutions et recherche de provenance : le sort des oeuvres d’art revenues d’Allemagne après la guerre Exhibition, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme Paris 25 June - 26 October 2008.
For further information, click here.
Conference: Spoliation, Restitution, Compensation and Provenance Research, Paris 14-15 September 2008
For further information, click here.
Taking Responsibility: Nazi-looted Art – a challenge for Libraries, Archives and Museums, Berlin 11-12 December 2008.
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New Publications

An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
July 2008
Tim Tzouliadis.
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Report of the UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel in respect of pieces of porcelain in the possession of the British Museum, London and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
June 2008
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Reclaimed: Paintings From the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker
June 2008
Peter C Sutton.
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Welcome to lootedart.com

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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Latest Additions

The lists of works of art for which immunity from seizure is currently sought by UK museums are available online.  The UK's Protection for Cultural Objects on Loan Act 2007 provides immunity from seizure for works of art brought into the UK for temporary exhibition.  The legislation requires museums to publish a list of works intended to be brought into the UK for at least one month prior to the exhibition, with photographs and full provenance details of each object.  The following institutions are currently seeking immunity for forthcoming exhibitions: the V&A Cold War Modern. Design, 1945-70  25 September 2008-11 January 2009 - see the list here.; the Henry Moore Foundation Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts  1 October 2008-4 January 2009 - see the list here; the National Gallery Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian 15 October 2008-18 January 2009 - see the list here; the Royal Academy for Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aimé Maeght and his artists 4 October 2008-2 January 2009 - see the list here and for Byzantium 330-1453 25 October 2008-22 March 2009 - see lists here; Tate Francis Bacon 2008 11 September 2008-4 January 2009 and Van Dyck and Britain 18 February -17 May 2009 - see lists here. Details of loans to the current exhibition at the Tate Liverpool 'Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900' can be seen here and to the British Museum's 'Hadrian: Empire and Conflict' here.  The MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Council) provides a link on its website to all current listings of proposed or existing loans covered by the legislation.
The German Historical Museum in Berlin has launched a complete online catalogue of Hitler's famous Linz Collection.   Hitler bought and stole the artworks between the mid 1930s and 1945 with the aim of exhibiting the collection in a museum in Linz, Austria.  After the war, the Alies photographed and catalogued each of the 4,731 pieces, including paintings and sculptures as well as furniture and works in porcelain.  In the six decades since, the works have been scattered, distributed to museums in Germany and across Europe or returned to their original owners.  The collection appears online, in German only, with information about the original owner and current location of each work of art, when available, and is fully searchable.  
Photographs of the 74 paintings and two tapestries in 'Katalog der Privat-Gallerie Adolf Hitlers', a photographic catalogue of Hitler's private art collection, have been posted online by the US Library of Congress. 
The Nuremberg Municipal Library has published a first list of 115 former owners from Nuremberg and Franconia of looted books in its collection whose heirs are being sought. Click here for details and further information.
A series of short films on Nazi-looted art is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G7L72VcZVg
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CLAIMANTS
Restitution decisions: All restitution decisions made by the Austrian authorities since 1998 for works in federal institutions are listed online on the website of the Vienna Commission for Provenance Research (Kommission für Provenienzforschung). The decisions, made under the December 1998 Restitution Law, are recorded according to the names of the 129 individuals and families from whom the works of art were expropriated. Each decision is provided in full and sets out both the reasons for restitution and the details of the works of art to be restituted.
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