Showing posts with label World War II. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War II. Show all posts
September 9, 2026

Stolen Once by War, Stolen Again by Thieves: The Troubled Provenance of Renoir’s Jeune Femme au puits

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When two burglars broke into the Musée Renoir at Cagnes-sur-Mer before dawn on 8 September 2026, they removed four paintings from the same r...
May 11, 2026

The Power of Disclosure: One Family Reckons with Its Wartime Past as Goudstikker's Portrait of a Young Girl by Dutch artist Toon Kelder is Relinquished

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Dutch crime journalist John van den Heuvel, long known in the Netherlands for his reporting on organised crime and high-profile criminal inv...

Inherited Silence: Another Nazi Looted Painting "Portrait of a Young Girl,” by Dutch artist Toon Kelder Found in Private Hands.

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Identified Goudstikker portrait and a photo of a volunteer of the Dutch SS taking an oath in the presence of an officer. In the background, ...
August 13, 2025

How far we haven't come

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Francis Henry Taylor, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, had this to say about looted art entering the United St...
August 8, 2025

From Disappearance to Return: The Long Journey Home of a Stolen 17th-Century Jesuit Manuscript

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In 1675, Jesuit scholar Zacharias Traber published Nervus Opticus Sive Tractatus Theoricus in Tres Libros in Vienna, a richly illustrated t...
December 3, 2023

Claiming Legacies: Italy, Germany, and the Post-WWII Ownership Battle for the Discobolus

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Image Credit: Exhibition Arte Liberata 1937-1947: Masterpieces Saved from War. This past week Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper stir...
September 15, 2023

Three artworks by Austrian Expressionist Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele seized at Three US Museums

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Fritz Grünbaum's prisoner registry card at Dachau Concentration Camp On Wednesday, the New York District Attorney's Office in Manhat...
April 21, 2023

Summer Course in Provenance Research, Theory and Practice

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Photo taken by Nazi authorities during World War II showing a room filled with stolen art at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris Recognizi...
September 1, 2021

New York Exhibition Review - Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art

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by Aubrey Catrone, Proper Provenance, LLC The Jewish Museum’s current exhibition Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art is ...
January 5, 2021

Operación Nongreta brings in three gun runners and uncovers one suspect's "museum" of Nazi-themed objects

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Image Credit: Guardia Civil Arrested in a complex multinational police action code-named Operación Nongreta one of three gun runners arreste...