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Tuesday February 27
- NAZI-STOLEN
ART IN AUSTRALIA: "The New South Wales Art Gallery,
one of the first Australian institutions to review its collection,
says nine of the gallery's 40,000 artworks could have been among
the many paintings stolen by the Nazis." ABCNews
Online 02/27/01
Monday February 26
- PROVENANCE
PROBLEMS: Art collections around the world
have taken major strides in the last couple years to repatriate
any artwork plundered by the Nazis. Now Australia is also taking
a close look at its galleries’ holdings and has already found
more than 100 major works with dubious gaps in their ownership.
"It is unlikely that there is any major collection that
has been active in acquiring in the last 50 years that doesn't
have something that came from a [Nazi] source ... such was the
scale of the raiding that took place. But to actually locate
and find that is extraordinarily difficult." Sydney Morning Herald 2/26/01
Friday February 2
Friday January 19
- WARTIME
COMPENSATION: "A family that fled from Nazi Germany
during the Second World War is to receive £125,000 in compensation
from the Government because a painting they sold for food ended
up in the Tate gallery." The
Independent (London) 01/19/01
Wednesday January 17
- STOLEN
ART INITIATIVE: American museums announced a plan to identify
art that might may have been stolen by the Nazis in WWII. "Museums
will be asked to disclose on the Internet the identity and chain
of ownership of all works in their collections that changed
hands during the Nazi years (1932-1945) and could have been
in Europe during that period. This new agreement is the latest
step in a worldwide effort to identify and recover art confiscated
by the Nazis." Washington Post
01/17/01
Thursday January 3, 2001
- KLIMTS
RETURNED: Eight paintings by Gustav Klimt that were stolen
by the Nazis and later turned up in an Austrian gallery, have
been returned to the family from whom they were stolen and are
on display in Canada. The Globe
& Mail (Canada) 01/03/01
Thursday December 21
- SHADY
DEALS: "Martin Fabiani, a Paris dealer who was arrested
and fined by the Allies after the Second World War for dealing
in 'enemy property' and art plundered by the Nazis, supplied
Canada's National Gallery with several notable paintings, among
them works by Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne and Edgar
Degas. Dealers, such as Mr. Fabiani, took advantage of cut-rate
prices on art looted from Jews in Nazi-occupied countries. During
the chaos that ensued when France was occupied by the Nazis,
dealers like Mr. Fabiani were able to sidestep legal formalities
in order to make quick sales." National
Post (Canada) 12/21/00
Wednesday December 6
- MORE
POSSIBLE NAZI LOOT: The National Gallery in Ottawa says
it has 100 works of art with undocumented provenance during
the Nazi era. The museum is posting the artwork to its website
in an attempt to track down details. Ottawa
Citizen 12/06/00
- ART
STING:
U.S. Customs officials in New York marked the opening of a new
art fraud investigation center by returning to Germany a 16th-century
painting stolen from a German castle by American soldiers after
World War II. About 65 percent of all U.S. art imports arrive
through the port of New York - investigations there this year
alone have already seized $10.5 million worth of stolen art.
CNN
12/05/00
Thursday November 30
- ONUS
ON MUSEUMS: "Under the sweeping guidelines, which were
approved last month by the American Association of Museums and
the Association of Art Museum Directors, museums must research
and disclose on their Web sites the backgrounds of all art works
acquired after 1933, when the Nazis took power in Germany, and
produced before the conclusion of World War II in 1945."
New York Times 11/30/00 (one-time
registration required for access)
- AUSTRIANS
TO RETURN KLIMTS: The Austrian government recommends returning
paintings by Gustav Klimt stolen during the Nazi era. One of
the paintings is worth $9 million "The artworks to be returned
include 'Lady with Hat and Feather Boa', a showpiece of the
Austrian State Belvedere Museum in Vienna. BBC
11/30/00
Tuesday November 21
- STOLEN
PAINTING RETURNED: Washington's National Gallery is returning
a painting to the heir of a collector from whom the painting
was stolen by the Nazis. "The painting, 'Still Life with
Fruit and Game' by Flemish artist Frans Snyders, depicts a large
basket of colorful fruit on a red tablecloth, surrounded by
dead game, including birds and a small deer." New
York Times 11/20/00 (one-time registration
required for access)
- HITLER'S
PRIVATE ART COLLECTION WAS LEGAL? During the Second World
War Hitler set up a private museum in Linz and had it stocked
with treasures. The last surviving member of the team that acquired
the art says that it was all obtained legally and none of it
was stolen. Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung 11/20/00
Monday November 20
- SWISS
BANKS AND THE HOLOCAUST: Swiss banks plan to distribute
$1.25 billion in reparations to Holocaust survivors. "Until
just recently, Swiss bankers were demanding impossible-to-produce
death certificates and other documentation before they would
pay out claims." But many of the survivors or their heirs
are contesting the settlement. New
Jersey Online 11/20/00
Monday November 13
- STOLEN
CEZANNE SEIZED: "The French courts have ordered the
seizure of 'The sea at l’Estaque' by Paul Cézanne, currently
on show in the Musée du Luxembourg as part of the exhibition
“From Fra Angelico to Bonnard: masterpieces from the Rau Collection”,
at the request of Michel Dauberville who claims it was stolen
from his grandfather, gallery owner Josse Bernheim-Jeune, during
World War II." The Art Newspaper
11/10/00
- GETTING
MORE SERIOUS ABOUT STOLEN ART:
Christie’s announced that it has helped raise $500,000 for opening
up Nazi documentation which is in Russian archives, while Sotheby’s
is to assist the Council of Europe in setting up a central website
on looted art. These moves reflect the auctioneers’ growing
concerns over the problem of war loot. The
Art Newspaper 11/10/00
Thursday November 1
- COMING
TO TERMS WITH THE PAST: Germany has only recently begun
to come to terms with what to do with art stolen during the
Nazi era. But finding solutions is problematic. "What was
legal in this criminal era? Was there a semi-normality and a
decent, civil art market in the early years of the Nazi regime?
This might be determined on the basis of the prices obtained
on the art market. Or should all sales of art owned by Jews
after 1933 be regarded as 'a result of persecution'?"
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 11/01/00
Monday October 30
- ADDING
UP THE LOSSES: "Up to 600 artworks in British museums
and art galleries may have been looted by the Nazis during the
Second World War, according to the National Museum Directors'
Conference." The Independent
10/27/00
Friday October 27
- WHERE
ARE OWNERS? "An extensive search through Britain's
national museums has so far failed to prove that any works were
wrongly taken during the Second World War. But there are about
600 items whose whereabouts during the war are unclear, and
researchers say they are 'desperate' for public help in tracking
their movements." Ananova 10/26/00
Tuesday October 24
- JUDGE
ORDERS PAINTINGS RETURNED: A Budapest judge has ordered
the Hungarian government to return 10 paintings - including
an El Greco and a Courbet - worth an estimated $20 million,
to the American founder of Dansk Designs. The woman's family
lost the paintings to the Nazis in World War II. New
Jersey Online (AP) 10/24/00
Friday October 20
- APPARENT
HEIR: Boston's Museum of Fine Art has made a deal with the
heirs to a painting sold under court order in Nazi-occupied
Paris during World War II. "The parties came to a part-purchase,
part-donation agreement that will allow the painting to remain
in the MFA's collection, and on display in its European paintings
galleries." Boston Globe 10/20/00
- The
MFA purchased the painting from
a London dealer in 1992 and has had it on display since.
The museum was notified of the claim in February and first
discussed the situation at a federal hearing on Nazi-looted
art in New York City in April.
Boston Herald 10/20/00
Thursday October 12
- UNCOVERING
STOLEN ART: Australia's museums have come under criticism
for not doing enough to return art in their collections that
may have been stolen by the Nazis in World War II. Now the National
Gallery of Victoria will list 24 works from its collection on
the internet to see if anyone comes forward to claim them.
The Age (Melbourne) 10/12/00
Wednesday October 11
- TOKEN
ATTEMPTS: Some 18,000 art objects were catalogued as stolen
by the Nazis in Austria after World War II. But despite a law
that directs the return of the work, only 152 items have been
returned so far. Could it be the Austrian government's attitude?
"I cannot give away state assets because of a few moral
qualms," says the Austrian minister of Education.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 10/10/00
Sunday
October 6
Thursday
October 3
- OPEN
SECRETS: The
U.S. and Russia reached a breakthrough agreement Wednesday at
an international conference on the restitution of Holocaust-era
art to open their archives to help recover Nazi-looted treasures.
Access to Russian archives has been ofcrucial concern to Jewish
groups pressing for restitution. Yahoo!
News (Reuters) 10/04/00
Sunday
September 24
- RETURNED
TO OWNER (OR HEIRS): The two-year-old Commission on Art
Recovery brokers a return of art stolen in World War II by the
Nazis. "The heirs of Gustav Kirstein, a principal in an
art printing firm in Leipzig, will recover an oil painting by
Lovis Corinth and some 80 items, primarily drawings, by Max
Klinger." Jerusalem Post 09/24/00
Friday
August 22
Friday
July 21
Thursday
July 20
-
FINDERS,
KEEPERS… In a victory for all museums hoping to borrow
works of art from foreign museums, a federal judge has ruled
that the U.S. government cannot force Austria’s Leopold Museum
to forfeit an Egon Schiele painting that’s been proven to
have been stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis. On loan
to New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the painting had been
seized in September under a new state law allowing prosecutors
to seize artwork on display while its provenance is under
investigation. MSNBC
07/19/00
Thursday
July 13
-
THE
ART OF NAZI FINANCING:
Did Chase Manhattan bank
help the German ambassador to France steal Jewish-owned artwork
during the Second World War? The World Jewish Congress thusly
accused the bank on Wednesday, saying that according to a
U.S. Treasury Department report, Chase's French branch was
actively aiding Nazi Germany in securing assets. "There
is evidence that German assets were placed at Chase, which
were used in transactions involving Jewish looted art."
Yahoo
(Reuters) 07/12/00
Thursday
July 6
-
A
LOGICAL APPROACH: The Art Loss Register, a private
organization dedicated to recovering art looted during
WWII, has located and returned art valued at $100 million.
How? "The first is the moral argument, the second is
the threat of embarrassing negative publicity, which affects
both individuals and institutions, and the third is the claim
that the work has become completely worthless from a financial
standpoint because it can never be sold on the market as long
as it remains on the list of looted Holocaust art." Ha'aretz
07/05/00
Wednesday
June 21
-
WHAT
KIND OF PRIORITY? While museum's on America's East Coast
struggle to track down provenance of their artwork for the
time around World War II, California museums lag far behind.
"It's a high priority, but we don't have the resources
in place," says a spokesperson for the Armand Hammer
Museum. Meanwhile, the Getty Museum, just completing a first
phase of inquiry, "has found that more than half of its
paintings collection has wartime gaps - 248 of its 425 works."
Washington
Post 06/21/00
Friday
June 16
-
THE
ART LISTS:
It's been two months since American
museums put up lists of artwork with questionable provenance
during the Nazi era. "So far, no claimants have come
forward to identify and seek restitution for objects on the
Web sites put up by the Museum of Fine Art, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, or the Art Institute
of Chicago. Nor have the sites yielded significant evidence
that could lead to the recovery of stolen objects."
Boston
Globe 06/16/00
Tuesday
June 13
Monday
June 5
-
PROSECUTING
MUSEUMS FOR BORROWING:
New York state governor signs a law that gives prosecutors
the power to bring criminal charges against institutions that
borrow stolen work. New York museums have opposed the law,
saying it will hurt their ability to borrow artwork.
The
Art Newspaper 06/05/00
-
ANOTHER
PLEA FOR RETURNING THE ELGINS: Greece calls again for
the return of the Elgin marbles from the British Museum, but
says it might be interested in sharing ownership of the artwork.
BBC
06/05/00
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SORTING
OUT OWNERSHIP: Boston's Museum of Fine Art debates the
proper way to list artwork with questionable provenance on
the internet.
Boston Herald 06/05/00
Sunday
June 4
-
LOOTED
ART TO STAY IN RALEIGH: After agreeing to give up a painting
by Cranach to heirs of the collector it was stolen by the
Nazis from, The North Carolina Museum of Art gets a surprise.
Rather than selling it on the open market, the heirs sell
it back to the museum for a fraction of its value. Scripps
Howard 06/03/00
Sunday
May 21
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CONFRONTING
THE PAST:
Six decades ago, Nazis
stole some 300 artworks from Francis Warin's grand-uncle.
Only half were ever returned after the war. Warin launched
his own search for the art, and the search brought him to
the United States, where "he has confronted some of the
nation’s most prominent museums with complex and emotional
questions likely to be repeated as more heirs eager to recoup
their families’ wartime losses come forward with their claims."
MSNBC
(Washington Post) 05/21/00
Thursday
May 18
Sunday
May 14
Monday
May 1
-
BOOTY
EXCHANGE:
On Saturday Germany and
Russia met in St. Petersburg to swap art they had stolen from
one another during World War II. "In exchange for the
intricately inlaid chest and glistening mosaic from Peter
the Great's famed Amber Room, Russia has agreed to return
101 artworks looted from Germany by Soviet troops after World
War II. A Russian law largely bans repatriating booty art,
seen by Russians as compensation for an estimated several
hundred thousand items destroyed or lost during the Nazi occupation."
Chicago
Tribune 05/01/00
Thursday
April 27
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FOLLOW
THE LEADER: Given
the quick success of British and German web lists of artwork
of questionable provenance, American museums discover the
internet as well. Yesterday the Metropolitan
Museum posted a list
of 393 paintings whose ownership histories have any gap between
1933 and 1945. Then the Museum
of Modern Art followed suit with a list of the known provenance
of 15 works acquired after 1933. New
York Times 04/13/00
(one-time registration required
for entry)
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DITTO
CHICAGO'S ART INSTITUTE: 500 works listed by the museum.
Chicago
Tribune 04/13/00
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WHY
NOW? And by the way, the Presidential Advisory Commission
on Holocaust Assets asked the heads of four major museums
yesterday, just how serious are you about this issue? And
why is Boston's Museum of Fine Art's list so thin? Boston
Herald 04/13/00
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THE
MET, MOMA AND THE MFA trooped before the Presidential
Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets Wednesday to declare
their intention to resolve provenance issues. The commission
acts as a national body examining what stolen war-era assets
exist in the United States and oversees the research to identify
them. Newsday
04/13/00
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FIRST
CLAIMS: Boston's MFA acknowledges that a family has made
a claim for one of the European paintings in the museum's
collection that was stolen and sold in France during the Nazi
occupation. The MFA responds: "We have researched the
claim and found it to be completely valid and have since been
discussing an amicable resolution with the claimant. The claim-ant
wishes to keep the painting at the MFA and we are working
toward that end.'' Boston
Herald 04/13/00
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IF
THE INFORMATION HAD BEEN AVAILABLE IN THE FIRST PLACE...
Less than two hours after Boston's Museum of Fine Arts put
up a website Monday providing details about seven paintings
that might have been looted during the Holocaust, the museum
received an e-mail providing information about one of the
paintings. Boston
Herald 04/12/00
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Boston's
Museum of Fine Arts posts web
list of seven European paintings whose provenance, or
history of ownership, may implicate them in the widespread
looting of art in Europe during the Nazi era. Boston
Globe 04/11/00
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MFA
acknowledges that "there are
gaps in the ownership history of at least 200 other works
in its European collection and that some of these artworks
also could be cause for concern." Boston
Herald 04/11/00
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MINISTER
OF DEFENSE: British
arts minister Alan Howarth announced the creation of a new
panel to further investigate the Nazi provenance of art in
British collections. But he also tried to defuse the recent
publicity, declaring: “In fact, the museums and galleries
were simply announcing findings about uncertain provenance.
It does not follow that because there is a gap in the recorded
history of a particular item it must have been looted. Whatever
wrongs were done in the Nazi era, works of art held in our
public collections were - we should start by assuming - acquired
in good faith and have probably been held for the public benefit.”
The
Guardian 04/13/00
-
St.
Louis Museum investigating four of its paintings - including
a Max Beckman and a Matisse to check Nazi provenance. St.
Louis Post-Dispatch 04/12/00
-
YOUR
LIST OF LISTS: Germany posts list
of Nazi-stolen art on the internet. "Over 2,200 works
of art, as well as 10,000 books and coins have already been
indexed on the pages of www.LostArt.de.
These works have been called the "Linzer Collection"
because they include paintings intended by Hitler for a "Führer
Museum" in the Austrian city of Linz." Die
Welt 04/11/00
-
NEW
TOOL: "The Internet makes this
information available to the most people possible. Those who
have survived can now easily search for what they have lost.
If they are unable, their children or grandchildren can search
for them." Wired
04/11/00
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QUESTIONS
OF WHERE: All well and good to talk about tracking down
provenance of a work of art - of course it's the right thing
to do. But actually doing it and making it stick isn't always
so easy. Boston
Globe 04/10/00
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NO
ONE SAID IT WOULD BE EASY:
Efforts by the Art Loss Register to repatriate Nazi-confiscated
artworks to their rightful owners have been stymied by a little-known
German tax code. “We certainly have the impression that there
exists a willingness to return property to its legal owners,”
says the Register’s director Sara Jackson. “However, it is
unclear to us how this willingness corresponds with a German
law that went into effect in 1988.” Ha’aretz
04/09/00
-
ONLY
55 YEARS LATE: Germany will publish a list of several
thousand works of art stolen from museums and individuals
across Europe in an effort to restore some of it with its
rightful owners. Financial
Times 04/06/00
- THE
PROBLEM LIST: After months of delay, Boston's Museum of
Fine Art has decided to share with the world information about
artwork it has that may be suspected of being stolen. The MFA
will post information about these works on the internet. Boston
Globe 03/25/00
- MFA
to accelerate information process. Boston
Herald 03/25/00
- Twelve
to 15 artworks may have problems.
New York Times (AP) 03/26/00
- LET
THE LAWSUIT COMMENCE: After it was discovered the Seattle
Art Museum was in possession of a Matisse stolen by the Nazis
during WWII, they were ordered to return it to its original
heir. Then SAM tried to sue the New York art gallery who sold
them the piece, but the judge threw out the case. In light of
new evidence, however, the judge has decided to let the trial
go ahead. Seattle
Times 03/25/00
- DELAYED
RESPONSE: Trustees of The Boston Museum of Fine Art met
last night to approve a plan to which would reveal which
pieces of artwork in its collection may have been stolen by
the Nazis during WWII. While the "plan" is still a
mystery to the public, the MFA is expected to make a statement
sometime today, and may announce some of the names of the questionable
pieces as early as next month. Boston
Herald 03/24//00
- QUIT
STALLING! It's been two years since the Boston Museum of
Fine Art declared they would conduct an inquiry on works that
may have been stolen by the Nazis during the Holocaust...with
what appears to be strong evidence that the MFA is in fact in
possession of looted art, critics say the museum is purposely
stalling. ``'If there is a good reason for not releasing those
questionable works, the museum should present that. Disclosure
is important here, and sometimes people lose sight of the importance
of disclosure, even if they are pursuing the truth.''' Boston
Herald 0 3/21/00
- GERMAN
MUSEUM returns Nazi-looted painting to heirs. Chicago
Tribune (AP) 03/14/00
- FIRST
RETURNS: A painting has been returned by a British museum
after a list published by the government last week. "The
Three Stages of Life" (1898) a triptych by Count Leopold
von Kalckreuth, part of a traveling show at the Royal Academy
of Arts called "1900: Art at the Crossroads," is the
first restitution of a painting on view in a British institution.
New
York Times 03/14/00
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registration required for entry)
- ANOTHER
NAZI CLAIM: The heir of a German industrialist
is seeking a 19th-century landscape by Courbet from the Art
Institute of Chicago, that she says was stolen from her father
by Nazis in WWII. Her successful bid last summer for a van Gogh
drawing, L'Olivette, from a Berlin museum has been widely credited
with accelerating Germany's program to return looted art.
Jerusalem
Post 03/12/00
- INVESTIGATION
ON: A number of American museums are now checking to see
if any of the artwork they own might have been stolen by the
Nazis during the Second World War. Suspected works include a
Rembrandt and a Courbet. CNN
03/10/00
- MADONNA
SUSPECT: The LA County Museum of Art says it is investigating
whether a Madonna and Child tempura panel painted around 1425
went through the hands of one of the most important art dealers
the Nazis used in their wholesale plundering of Jewish assets,
Hans Wendland.
Times of India (AP) 03/10/00
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Painting
uncovered on check of the museum's collection for items
of questionable provenance.
Los Angeles Times 03/09/00
-
NOW
THAT BRITAIN HAS COME CLEAN... by
publishing a list of art in British museums that might have
been stolen by the Nazis, what are American museums waiting
for? "How is it possible that in Britain alone there
are 350 works that may have been stolen and U.S. museums can't
find any?" asked Elan Steinberg, executive director of
the World Jewish Congress. Seattle
Post-Intelligencer (AP) 03/02/00
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An
example to the world.
Chicago Tribune 03/01/00
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ARTLISTING:
Publication of a list of 350 artworks in Britain with questionable
provenance during Nazi years, had British museum organization
on the defensive Tuesday. "in Britain some museum directors
after the war had not been 'fastidious' about checking whether
paintings they bought or were given might have had a Nazi
connection. But the organization believes many of the gaps
in history are innocent but cannot yet be explained because
papers have been lost, owners have died or dealers and auction
houses are unwilling to release documents." London
Telegraph 03/01/00
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List
"far less sensational" than headlines suggest.
London Telegraph 03/01/00
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Proving
ownership difficult.
London Telegraph 03/01/00
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"No
factual evidence that any of the works had been stolen
by the Nazis" New
York Times 03/01/00
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registration required for entry)
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OWNERSHIP
QUESTIONS: British report says some 300 works of art in
UK museums have questionable WWII provenance and could have
been stolen by Nazis from their rightful owners. The
Guardian 02/29/00
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NAZI
LOOT: British museums and galleries announce a list of
art they hold that was looted by the Nazis and never returned
to rightful owners. So will the art be returned? Not necessarily.
"Arts Minister Alan Howarth told the BBC's 'Newsnight'
program: 'Just as it was wrong to take paintings off Jewish
people in the circumstances of the Nazi era, so it would be
wrong without a proper basis of evidence to take paintings
off the national collections which are held for the public
benefit.'"
BBC 02/29/00
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WHAT'S
FAIR? "It is entirely proper that stolen pictures,
especially those taken in the appalling circumstances of Europe
under Nazi domination, should be returned to the families
of their pre-war owners, but publishing lists of this kind
invites false claims made, not with mischievous intentions,
but through errors of recollection after 60 years or more
- one Picasso looks much like another after so long a time.
It is possible, even probable, that the list will provoke
false memories, and once a false claim is made it may well
be difficult for the gallery in question to prove or disprove
the claim, leaving ownership in limbo." Evening
Standard 02/29/00
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RETURN
TO OWNERS: Germany and Russia finally come to terms on
returning some of the art they looted from one another during
the Second World War. ARTNews
03/00
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NAZI
RETURNS: On the eve of announcement of a British government
plan for compensation to Holocaust survivors and their families
for artwork looted by the Nazis now residing in British museums,
a controversy erupts. Jewish community leaders and art experts
are protesting that the plan is inadequate. London
Evening Standard 02/025/00
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LOOTED
ART: Several prominent British art museums are expected
to announce this week that they are in possession of artworks
stolen by the Nazis in the World War II. The Tate alone is
said to have 100 such works. Jerusalem
Post 02/22/00
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NAZI
PLUNDER: The Nazis stole 600,000 pieces of art in Germany
and the countries they occupied during Hitler's 12 years in
power, says the U.S. government's top expert in stolen art
from that era. The
Oregonian (AP) 02/14/00
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TURNING
TABLES: A German court has issued an injunction to bar
the return of a painting with questionable provenance to its
American owner: the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The
painting is "Bauhaus Staircase" by Oskar Schlemmer,
painted in 1932, considered an icon of the Modern's collection
and usually on view in the permanent-collection galleries.
The painting had been on loan for an exhibition at the National
Gallery in Berlin that closed on Jan. 9. Ironically the Modern
has been in a similar dispute of its own over ownership of
an Egon Schiele painting that had been lent to MOMA.
New
York Times 02/10/00
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registration required for access)
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PAINTING
RETURN: "After confirming that one of its most prized
paintings had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II
from an Austrian Jewish art collector, the North Carolina
Museum of Art announced plans this week to give the painting
back to its rightful owners, two sisters in Austria."
New
York Times 02/06/00
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registration required for entry)
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NAZI-STOLEN
BOOKS: As World War II was coming to a close, staffers
of the Library of Congress fanned out in Germany scouring
Nazi book collections and picking out volumes for the Washington
library - more than 1 million of them. Now - 55 years later
- the US army captain in charge of the mission says that many
of the books taken had been looted from Jewish homes, libraries
or synagogues by the Nazis, and that these books are sitting
unacknowledged on the shelves of the Library of Congress and
other American libraries. Washington
Post 01/05/00
- ANOTHER
NAZI ART CLAIM: Two sisters in North Carolina make claim
on a 16th Century Madonna.
CBC 11/9/99
- JUDGE
RULES SEATTLE ART MUSEUM can't sue New York art dealer for
selling Matisse painting stolen by Nazis. Ruling could have
implications for other museums.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer 10/15/99
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